Compared homeless aged men who live on the Bowry or in hotel rooms in New York City. Results showed homelessness is not a uniform category. Sociability differentiated them from nonhomeless age peers and socioeconomic status differentiated the two groups; also found differences in each groups' social adaptation. (Author/JAC)

Discussed the utility of a measure of aggression using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Although child abusers significantly differed from a distressed and socioeconomic status-matched group on this scale, a discriminative analysis on the scale failed to adequately differentiate the groups. (Author)

A matched sample of Social Security and Current Population Survey records is used to determine life-cycle earnings patterns of White males. Estimated effects of schooling and experience compare well with other studies, but interaction effects with cohort do not. Military experience plays a powerful role in earnings differences across cohorts.…

Assessed demographic characteristics, attitudes toward lifelong education, and class format preferences of older adult students enrolled in credit classes. More respondents were employed, home owning, and younger than auditing and nonparticipant elders, with 16 percent having fewer than 12 years of education, and 4.8 percent no previous experience…

Examined the death orientations of Australian adults at different "distances" from death. Evaluated the performance of scales designed to measure cognitive and attitudinal components of death orientation. Found the Death Threat Index to be problematic. Results suggest death attitudes are idiosyncratic and only minimally affected by…

Compared social support systems of childless elderly to a larger group of older parents. Results indicated marital status was the major determinant of the quality of the support received and adaptation to childlessness. Childless marrieds were more isolated, while the unmarrieds were more resourceful in using social resources. (Author/JAC)

Compared changes in self-perceived levels of solitary, social, physical, and cultural activities among recent retirees with changes among continuing workers. Findings reflect a relative continuity in perception of leisure activity levels. Retirees did not see themselves as being more involved in leisure activities than their working peers.…

Describes a study conducted to determine the accuracy of the Cohort-Survival Method of Enrollment Forecasting, based on enrollment data collected over a ten-year period from a random sample of 42 Missouri school districts. Compares forecast accuracy with the enrollment stability and location of each of the districts. (JP)

A suicide potential scale is constructed that fits the Guttman scale criteria. The mean suicide potential scores of various age groups support the cohort model with the exception of individuals 75 and older, where it appears that maturation factors play an important role in explaining suicidal behavior. (Author)

For all occupations except clergyman, a relationship between the age of the respondent and preferred age of the professional existed. Older individuals preferred older service providers with one exception, their physician. Highly educated respondents preferred younger physicians. (Author)

Seven frequently used measures were examined by construct validation to improve measures. Results of this research indicate that there is a construct, termed "life satisfaction," shared by six of the seven measures and that no existing instrument best encompasses that construct. The construct is composed of two factors. (Author)

Experiences of cohorts of Swedish females born between 1885-1889 and 1940-1944 are examined, and found to agree with theoretical arguments that increases in female labor-force participation improve feasibility of marriage, while reducing the desirability relative to available alternatives. Increased female labor-force participation also increases…

This analysis of a set of longitudinal data on a cohort of Mexican-Americans, Negroes, and Anglos presents the reinterviewing process and discusses the problems generated by residential mobility. Analytical problems occasioned by death and changes in marital status are discussed. (Author/JM)

Examines the hypothesis that college has a substantial effect on political interest, awareness, and knowledge by comparing college students with a control group of noncollege cohorts. Finds that the effect of the passage of four years increases the awareness and knowledge of youth regardless of whether or not those years are spent in college.…

Compares adults raised in an original, two-parent family to those raised in other family structures. Results, based on 3,523 individuals, suggest that both men and women from original two-parent families earn more, on average, than those from other family structures. Family structure also rendered different effects by gender. (RJM)