Teachers, as referral agents, and nonprofessional child aides, as interventionists, rated 709 children seen in a school-based mental health program. Better liked children and those seen initially as having less severe problems had healthier referral and termination profiles and were judged to have improved more in the program. (Author)

This experiment investigated the effects of success and failure experiences on subsequent self-ratings of positive and negative social-psychological characteristics. Teacher trainees (N=60) were assigned to success, failure, or control experiences. Subjects who experienced success made significantly greater gains in positive self-assessments, and…

This paper explores the earnings consequences of women's competing familial and work commitments. The analyses support the conclusion that currently-married women receive smaller economic benefits from schooling and occupational status because of interrupted labor force participation and familial constraints. (Author)

Husband and wife pairs (N=189) separately completed lengthy questionnaires. Of the wives, 28 percent were employed full or part time. In general, working wives were more satisfied and performed more effectively than nonworking wives; conversely, husbands of working wives were less satisfied and performed less effectively than husbands of…

Homosexual men (N=95) between 25 and 68 years of age were asked to classify themselves as young, middle-aged, or old. The popular suggestion of accelerated aging in homosexual men was not supported. (Author)

Using a bibliocounseling system, college students (n=97) concerned about academic achievement tested fading counselor contact and increasing information feedback as treatment maintenance techniques. Testing included a no-contact control group (n=21). Fading contact was more effective than steady contact and increasing information feedback had no…

At Georgia Southern College a study of faculty time expended in the master's oral examination in counseling revealed written tests could save 680 faculty hours at the 89 percent success rate (almost 50 hours per year). The oral could be retained as an option for some students. (Author)

Since the 1960s, there has been a surge of black community organizations dedicated to improving the welfare of blacks in poor communities. This study of 33 such groups in Chicago discusses some revealing differences between older and newer groups and the strategies they use. (Author)

This study examines the role of communication regarding sexual topics before, during, and after cancer treatment, including that between patient and health professional. (Author)

Restoration of a major social role to institutionalized aged through a program of social interaction and socialization with adult mentally retarded is described and evaluated. The over-all findings encourage this innovative opportunity for institutionalized aged. (Author)

Responses by 200 psychologist couples asking them to delinerate problem areas were content analyzed. The larger number of problems cited by subjects were due to the fact that women were willing to place their careers secondary to needs of their families and needs of their husband's careers. (Author)

Negative attitudes, as expressed in humor, to aging, old age, and death were found by analysis of jokes in currently available jokebook anthologies. In particular, very negative attitudes to aging of women were found. Some ambivalence in attitude was discovered. (Author)

A survey of 137 older persons from the mailing list of a multipurpose senior center found that participants and nonparticipants in the center's activities did not differ in terms of their life satisfaction. Life satisfaction was predicted by the respondents' activity level, financial status, and health status. (Author)

Patterns of friendship among intellectually intact nursing home patients were studied about relationships with other nursing home residents, staff, volunteers, and friends outside the institution. Findings demonstrated two-thirds of the patient-respondents named residents as friends, two-thirds named staff, and one-half named volunteers. Presented…

Psychological cost, benefit, and profit scales, with regard to continued education, were constructed on the basis of questionnaire data from 421 high school seniors. The analyses showed a clear, positive relationship between psychological benefit-profit and level of aspiration with regard to continued education. (Author)