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Lain, Laurence B. – 1985
To determine the elements that most influence newspaper subscribership, 400 adults were polled in a stratified proportional sample to assess their levels of news media use in childhood and the strength of certain sociopsychological needs, and to record life style and demographic characteristics. Factor analysis of needs questions suggested the…
Descriptors: Adults, Demography, Individual Needs, Life Style
Karsten, Mark; Zautra, Alex – 1981
Traditionally, measures of psychological symptomology have been employed as the most useful criteria for identifying needs in specific communities, including measures derived from clinical screening inventories. A path analytic model of the relationships among indicators of need was derived from a survey of 1495 residents from four catchment areas…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Community Characteristics, Demography, Individual Differences