States of 40 newborn infants were observed during 2, 35- to 70-minute periods that were separated by 6-48 hours. Analyses identified 3 state profiles that differentiated infants on a behavioral assessment measure at 2 weeks of age. Scores showed significant agreement on individual differences in neurologically based measures. (RH)

Investigated ability of clinical and actuarial variables to predict criminal behavior of 342 sexual offenders previously studied in 1987. Results suggested linear combination of actuarial variables was significantly predictive of sexual reoffenses against adults and of nonsexual reoffending. Clinical judgment was not significantly predictive of…

Personal, environmental, and motivational measures to predict career motivation and achievement were completed by 91 undergraduates. Gender was not a significant predictor of career commitment. Gender and mother's education predicted mastery motivation. Family salience, attributing math failure to effort, cooperative achievement style, and…

Notes that, in North America, older women are less likely to be suicidal than older men. Focuses on older women's low rates of suicide mortality. On basis of literature review, suggests several hypotheses, including one that gender differences in suicide mortality reflect differences in coping and another that gender differences are influenced by…

Examined suicide in combat and noncombat Israeli units by duration of service and by preservice psychiatric, medical, and motivational data from 1974-85. Suicide population among combat and noncombat soldiers did not differ from nonsuicide population along induction criteria variables. Results suggest suicide may have been response to conditions…

Attempted to predict therapy dropouts using data gathered at marital therapy intake with 474 couples seeking marital therapy who attended at least 1 session. Significant predictors of dropping out included having less than two children, having a male intake clinician, and presenting problem relating only to one spouse. (Author/ABL)

In this field study, counselor/client (N=49) pairs completed measures assessing strength, importance, and satisfaction of working alliance they had developed in early phase of their counseling relationship. Results suggest counselors and clients differ with respect to some perceptions and strength of alliance is predictor of satisfaction with…

Describes how a hierarchical regression analysis may be conducted in structural equation modeling. The main procedure is to perform a Cholesky or triangular decomposition of the intercorrelations among the latest predictors. Provides an example of a hierarchical regression analysis with latent variables. (SLD)

Examined out-of-home care experience for 131 behaviorally impaired Nebraska children entering care during one year. Analyzed behavioral impairment, age at entry, age at termination, gender, race/ethnicity, family violence, geographical area before and at termination, closeness to home of most recent placement, and length of time in care.…

Proposes a heuristic method for estimating the relative weight of predictor variables in multiple regression that is computationally efficient with any number of predictors and that can be shown to produce results similar to those produced by more complex methods. (SLD)

Data from 483 workers in 172 occupations were examined for correlations of 11 congruence indices to each other and to 2 job satisfaction measures. None of the 22 correlations between indices and measures was significant. The congruence-satisfaction relationship varied according to Holland personality type. (SK)

Describes the use of multilevel modeling (MLM) in counseling research and discusses the goals of MLM. Highlights how MLM can be used to provide statistical references in the presence of hierarchical data structure; to separate the within-group effects from between-group effects for predictor variables; and to study the interactions among predictor…

An electronic search of Medline and PsycInfo produced 29 studies that specifically investigated the effects of religion on adolescent tobacco use. Independent (religion) and dependent (tobacco use) variables and variables controlled for in statistical analyses were categorized. Twenty-two of the 29 studies reported at least one significant effect…

Long-term follow-up information on children who have participated in early childhood special education (ECSE) has seldom been available. In the present study, the cognitive and academic performance of 171 thirteen-year-old graduates of 2 ECSE curricula is examined. Although preschool cognitive measures continued to predict later performance…

Prior research suggests that infants attend to a variable in an event category when they have identified it as relevant for predicting outcomes in the category, and that the age at which infants identify a variable depends largely on the age at which they are exposed to appropriate observations. Thus, depending on age of exposure, infants may…