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Yang, Philip Q. – International Migration Review, 1994
Proposes a broad analytical framework in the study of immigrant naturalization that incorporates an immigrant's individual characteristics with the larger social contexts in the country of origin and the country of destination to explain the likelihood of citizenship acquisition. Results testing of this framework show that such considerations are…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Citizenship, Cultural Influences, Data Analysis

Maltsberger, John T. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1988
Maintains that traditional mental status examination and clinical intuition or empathetic judgment are insufficient to predict suicide. Describes five components involved in the formulation of suicide risk: analysis of the patient's past response to stress, assessment of vulnerability to life-threatening affects, assessment of exterior sustaining…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Clinical Diagnosis, Coping, Fantasy

Schneider, Benjamin – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1987
Emphasizes that environments are a function of the people behaving in them. Reviews a new conceptualization of organizational functioning based on the attraction-selection-attrition framework. Describes the implications of this framework for various areas of study in industrial/organizational psychology and vocational behavior. (Author/KS)
Descriptors: Congruence (Psychology), Individual Characteristics, Industrial Psychology, Influences