Examines patterns of emerging substance use among sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students. Results show substantial levels of experimentation and use extending down to the sixth grade and variations in use level depending on students' community, sex, race, and parents' marital status. Also examines rates at which students were offered various…

Identifies factors influencing women's (N=202) intention to work during the first three years following childbirth using a model which proposes that intentions are a function of work experience, vicarious experience with a working mother, subjective normative pressure, and attitudes. Results indicated that attitudes had the strongest influence on…

Measured self-esteem in 61 Vermont alcoholics using the Cornell Index and the Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Results indicated depression is an intervening variable between self-esteem and alcoholism. A theoretical model describing the relationship of residence, occupation, income, self-esteem, and depression to alcoholism is presented. (JAC)

Investigated variables from initial inmate evaluations at a state penitentiary as predictors of inmate success in behavioral ladder program. Results indicated that academic test variables were best predictors of overall success level, attitudes, and work habits. Personality variables and one interview observation variable were also found to be…

Investigated factors influencing truancy from a juvenile court treatment facility. Youth placed in the facility were compared for number of truancies, background, and personality variables. Males with prior adjudication for truancy had a 65% probability of eloping from the court facility. Females showed a 62% probability of truancy. Personality…

Examined the relationships among career, marital, and family-role salience variables, parenthood motivations, and childhood paternal and maternal relationships for graduate-student mothers and those choosing to remain childless. Results revealed significant differences in types of motivations, levels of parental-role salience, and degrees of…

Contrasted a debiasing condition, in which undergraduate subjects (N=73) were warned of possible anchoring errors and how to avoid them, with a no-debiasing condition. Results indicated that debiasing was irrelevant because neither the replication sample nor the debiased sample demonstrated significant anchoring errors in their judgments. (LLL)

Examined the stability of expressed vocational interests of college women (N=98) after two years. Although most of the women's expressed interests were stable, some made major changes and others who had listed a choice became undecided. The results suggested that career indecision predicted changes in expressed vocational interests. (JAC)

Discusses six factors that help determine which groups and individuals will be most successful in the process of bicultural socialization: (1) cultural overlap; (2) cultural translators; (3) feedback; (4) problem solving skills; (5) bilingualism; and (6) appearance. Discusses implications for social work. (JAC)

Discriminant analyses of survey data from managers who have reached career plateaus and managers who are still highly mobile (N=199) suggested significant differences between the two groups. Plateaued managers were absent from work more frequently; they reported poorer relationships with supervisors, lower education levels, and impaired health.…

A study was conducted to find some quantitative predictors of student success in Intermediate Accounting I that an advisor can use as an aid in student counseling. The AICPA Level I Form C test and the average grade in principles courses proved to be reasonable predictors of success. (CT)

Examined predictors of academic achievement of 111 adult female students to provide information fo reentry admission criteria. Results showed self-confidence and past academic records, even when dated, offered a sound basis for predicting performance. Age, children, and years away from school were unrelated to success. (JAC)

Examined failure to graduate from high school as a function of grade point average and substance abuse among Phildelphia high school students (N=427). Results of multiple regression analyses indicated that the gradepoint averages are more powerful predictors to eventual failure to graduate than are "Drug Severity Index" scores. (BL)

Based on easily obtainable prospective measures representing generally accepted models of child maltreatment, results provide empirical support for the multimodel or multidimensional approach to prediction. Data from the prenatal period through the fourth month of life predicted maltreatment through the third year. (Author/RH)

The common approach to studies of predictive bias is analyzed within the context of a conceptual model in which predictors and criterion measures are viewed as fallible indicators of idealized qualifications. (Author/PN)