Participants in a workplace health promotion program may be influenced as much by organizational characteristics as by health-related characteristics of employees. A study conducted at AT&T Communications used path analysis to develop a model of participation. It suggests that program developers should consider the organizational climate as…

Of 516 bicyclists interviewed, 19 percent owned helmets but only eight percent were wearing them. Riders wearing helmets were more highly educated and reported higher car seat belt use. Helmets afford protection from bicycling head injuries. (Author/BJV)

Discusses participant characteristics, course content, teaching strategies, and follow-up activities of two inservice teacher computer training programs responsive to needs of beginners (providing basic skills to teachers with no familiarity and computer anxiety) and advanced users (dealing with issues of systematic classroom integration of…

Presents an exercise which is designed to identify behavior characteristics and attitudes and enable individuals to identify and understand personality traits that have essential implications for becoming a successful entrepreneur. Discussion includes the personality traits of the successful entrepreneur and situational factors contributing to…

Investigated whether a 20-hour workshop would facilitate the decision making of 20 career women experiencing difficulty deciding whether to have children. Significant differences among participants' attitudes, feelings, and inclinations toward parenthood were not found from the pre- to postprogram measure; however, 42 percent of the women made a…

Based on the data, young adults regardless of college attended seem to change more in the social area than any other area and they change in the direction of becoming more gregarious. Least change occurs in the degree of traditional beliefs, conformity, domestic habits, and fiscal policies engaged in by young adults. The major conclusion is that…

Studied the experiences of women (N=979) in consciousness-raising (CR) groups. Women commonly joined CR groups through women's organizations, and their most important reason for entering CR was to examine women's roles and experiences. Women's reasons for joining predicted which CR experiences they valued. Nearly all women were highly satisfied.…

Brunswik's concept of representative design is reviewed with special reference to studies of clinical bias. Limitations of single-stimulus, actor-script, and serial replications are discussed. No satisfactory alternatives exist to adequate sampling of stimulus persons. Various attributes that are found in population must be properly represented in…

Compares relationship of male and female sport participation on locus of control, a dimension of personality that has been related to adjustment. Reveals female "organized" participants most internal and male nonparticipants most external. (Author/DA)

The jobless rates of participants in the federal food stamps program and in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program greatly exceeded national averages in 1976; the majority of recipients were outside of the labor force. (BM)

Presents results of a recent study concerning profiles of school development council directors, profiles of the councils, membership trends, budget trends, income sources, external impacts on study councils, and changes in programs. (JM)