Explores the utility of the strengths perspective as a conceptual framework for research in a qualitative study of secondary trauma with counselors of battered women. An emphasis on strengths allowed the researcher to identify strategies and resources that prevented symptoms of secondary trauma in the majority of counselors. (Contains 27…

Discussion of human resource development (HRD) focuses on an exploratory study that attempted to identify key predictors of motivation to learn during training and motivation to transfer learning back to the workplace, as well as examine the relationship between the two variables. Presents conceptual frameworks for training transfer. (Author/LRW)

Examines the degree to which children's achievement-related beliefs could be predicted from their friends' beliefs. Friends showed consistent, albeit modest similarities with regards to their self-perception of competence, academic standards, and importance of meeting standards, and preference for challenge. Friends appeared influential with…

A survey of seven institutions revealed that the institution's student assessment purposes, its administrative support patterns, and its faculty instructional impacts are significant predictors of faculty satisfaction with their institution's approach to and support for student assessment. External influences on, faculty uses, and perceived…

Examined relations among phonological awareness, music perception skills, and early reading skills in 100 preschoolers. Found that music skills correlated significantly with both phonological awareness and reading development. Music perception skills contributed unique variance in predicting reading ability, even when variance due to phonological…

Presents findings from the Virginia Longitudinal Study of Divorce and Remarriage (VLSDR) describing diverse patterns of intimate relationships and personal adjustment. Both a conflictual, unsatisfying marriage and a divorce were associated with diminished psychological, social, and physical well-being. Both marital conflict and divorce in the…

This meta-analysis finds that parents report lower marital satisfaction compared with nonparents. There is also a significant negative correlation between marital satisfaction and number of children. The data suggest that marital satisfaction decreases after the birth of a child due to role conflicts and restriction of freedom. (Contains 30…

Investigates Nebraska elementary school teachers' attitudes about whole language. Finds that teachers with a higher tendency to use whole language were those who felt more comfortable with whole language, had training in whole language, felt whole language should replace basal programs, and felt whole language can be used in conjunction with…

Proves a theorem about the invariance of the Lotka function under a transformation that maps numbers of authors as variables to number of collaborators as variables. A general approach to incorporate the average number of collaborators in a production function is discussed, leading to a general framework to model multirelational data. (Author/LRW)

Based on five years observations, three items were more likely to appear in drawings of patients who relapsed within three months: (1) presence of psychoactive substances or drug paraphernalia; (2) lack of a figure representing the self or any detailed figure; (3) notable use of abstract or geometric drawing style. (LSR)

This study describes the disclosure processes of 68 sexually abused girls. Circumstances of disclosure were found to be related to long-term psychological functioning. Girls who disclosed accidentally were younger, experienced abuse for shorter durations, and received the most therapy. At follow-up, those who purposefully disclosed had greater…

Active and retired university faculty completed a new measure of anxiety about retirement. Results suggest that the measure possessed high internal consistency, as well as both discriminant and construct validity. The measure's use for persons anticipating retirement is discussed in the context of a proactive stance toward retirement preparation.…

This study of 91 young adults, who had been identified as intellectually gifted as adolescents, found that out-of-school activities in adolescence were significant predictors of later vocational choice. Subjects whose adolescent out-of-school activities matched their adult occupations had a higher level of work accomplishment than other subjects.…

This meta-analysis of research on reference service evaluation discusses how often the same variables are examined, to what extent the observed correlations agreed or differed, and whether the results of multiple studies (59 studies listed) can be combined to obtain a more accurate estimate of the strength of association for a variable with…

A study involving 1,244 eighth-grade females who were high achievers in algebra, investigated characteristics of those who ended up taking calculus (n=474). Results showed differences between the two groups in mother's education, socioeconomic status, and educational aspirations. However, when applying all factors together, they did not predict…