In higher education music, individual practice remains a unique and solitary activity, perhaps the least accessible to the scrutiny of either teachers or researchers. This study reports on an investigation of the variety among student approaches to practice, with reference to year groups, age, instrumental groups and examination results. Data were…

Palmore's "Facts on Aging Quiz" is reconsidered in light of the results of over 500 administrations to health workers and health occupation students. An analysis of the data gathered suggests that the quiz has utility for three of the four purposes suggested by its creator. (Author)

Subjects read interviews in which either a 36-year-old or a 76-year-old widow talked about her life. They then rated their attitudes. Results show the perceivers viewed specific older persons as exceptions, while retaining negative stereotypes of the elderly in general. Theoretical expectations differed from results. (Author/BEF)

Documents age differences in the relative importance of intristic work satisfactions as determinants of the individual's sense of global well-being. It appears that, toward the end of the period of labor force participation, the satisfaction men derive from work is transferred from the actual experience of work to its consequences. (Author)

Variation in temporal experience among the aged has been found to be a function of a number of variables. The sociological and phenomenological literature suggest two as being of crucial importance: work and retirement, and health and illness. These were investigated in this study. (Author)

The factor analytic model of the practitioner-oriented "Opinions about People" was tested with a population of gerontological practitioners. An analysis eliminated nine items not warranting inclusion in the instrument, redistributed the factors, and brought out a completely new factor. (Author)

Investigated impact of interactions with kin on social integration in old age. A nonrandom sample of aged Baganda in Uganda was interviewed concerning perceptions of loneliness and social isolation. Results show that the majority of subjects did not view old age as a period of loneliness or isolation. (Author)

The age of onset for tactual exploration of the fingers, body (torso), knee, foot, and penis by the fingers was determined in 100 normal infants. Journal availability: see EC 113 765. (Author)

In the study, eight random samples of respondents (236 adult Ss) from a small Western city were presented with questionnaires which requested that they evaluate the characteristics of a stimulus person who varied by sightedness (blind, totally sightless, partially sighted, sighted), and age (35 or 65 years). (Author/SBH)

Using data provided by 1,695 Australian primary and high school male students, this study examines the extent to which school grade is related to stages in vocational development. Both vocational choice attitudes (VCA) and realism of vocational choice increased with grade, but no "stages" in their development were evident. (Author)

Relationships between age and employee satisfaction with intrinsic and extrinsic outcomes were investigated in samples of female (n=177) and male (n=96) blue-collar operatives. Results indicated a linear approximation of the age-satisfaction relationships is adequate, and satisfaction with intrinsic outcomes is related to age. (Author)

Assesses the importance of age in determining the use of conventional and illicit drugs among secondary school students in Texas. Age-drug use relationships were examined in terms of sex, age, and residence of respondents. Rural students' use of deviant drugs exceeded that of urban students. Conventional drug use increases with age. (Author/BEF)