Examines variables which influence the importance assigned to work values among teacher education graduates employed in nonacademic jobs. Career aspirations and type of previous work experiences were more important determinants of perceptions of job factors than demographic characteristics among education graduates employed in nonacademic…

This instrument was developed to measure a teacher's propensity for militant behavior. Its conceptual framework reflects current developments in public education labor-management relations. It was tested for reliability and validity. The experimental index was validated by using a multitrait-multimethod validation matrix. A reliability coefficient…

Studies effects of behavior rehearsal and audiotaped vignettes added to an assertion training lecture series for third graders. While clear increases in assertion were found, no effect on neuroticism or trait anxiety was noted. It was recommended that school mental health programs include an assertiveness segment in their curriculum. (Author/BEF)

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)

The paper briefly reviews the literature related to student evaluation of teaching (SET) and describes a study undertaken to determine if SET could be improved by suggesting specific behaviors to teachers during educational consultations. (LBH)

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…

Groups of married couples (N=4) were studied using a measure of their marital communication habits and an intensive personal interview. Analysis of the data revealed that the quality of interpersonal communication between spouses significantly deteriorated across the groups as the degree of suicidal behavior increased. (Author)

This article describes a six-session career development program for adults. The theoretical basis and rationale for various activities are included, along with some suggestions of ways of adapting standard career materials to meet the needs of an adult clientele. (Author)

Forty-eight black men and women living and/or attending school in the St. Louis and Washington, D.C. areas responded to questionnaires concerning feelings, attitudes, emotions, etc. towards death and dying. It is concluded that blacks see death as a very significant happening; and that although in some areas blacks have become Americanized in…

Interviews conducted in 1970 and 1971 with women university students (N=36) and women registered with the state department of employment (N=44) indicated that compared to married women, single women who did not have direct experience in the traditional female role held opinions which tended to idealize that role orientation. (Author)

This paper deals with an unique and innovative seminar in alcohol awareness education, which has been recently developed and implemented Air Force wide. The Alcohol Awareness Seminar is an eight-hour program encompassing 10 interrelated areas. The Responsible Drinking Concept is discussed with the justification and implementation of the seminar.…

Interviews with a nationwide sample (N=1357) of young and low-income black, chicano, and Caribbean men and women, as well as with nonminority counterparts, reveal the large majority are uninformed about the effects of licit and illicit drugs, nor do they know much about a range of other drug-related consequences. (Author)

The present study evaluated the likelihood that volunteers for behavior therapy research are self-selected on variables known to moderate therapeutic outcomes. Compared with nonvolunteers, volunteers reported greater anxiety and externality. Among speech-anxious subjects, however, no volunteer bias was observed. (Author)

This study examines the relationship between five dimensions of alienation from work--powerlessness, normlessness, meaninglessness, self-evaluative involvement, and instrumental work orientation--and the work-related behavior of effort, performance, absenteeism, and tardiness. The results show that the five dimensions of alienation are empirically…