Examined reactions of 38 older women to death of close friends. Sense of loss women felt resulted in development of new and closer relationships with other friends and relatives. Women's advice to others who had lost close friend was to remember friend, seek out new friendships, and be active. Found differences according to age, marital status,…

The relationship between humor and the physiological trait cardiorespiratory after pulse (CAP) was studied for 98 exercise clinic subjects. No significant correlation was found between the composite humor score and CAP, but some relationships were found with humor, CAP, marital status, and age. (SLD)

Among over 40,000 adults surveyed in California and South Carolina, alcohol consumption patterns of Hispanics and the general population were similar, with several important differences. For Hispanic males, being divorced/separated and being in their 30s (as opposed to single and in their 20s) increased the risk of problematic drinking patterns.…

Although incarceration rates have risen sharply since the 1970s, medical sociology has largely neglected the health effects of imprisonment. Incarceration might have powerful effects on health, especially if it instills stigma, and it could provide sociologists with another mechanism for understanding health disparities. This study identifies some…

A typology of crises is developed to be used with critical aspects of the social system to predict both crisis and postcrisis period role changes. The crisis framework is then applied to macro-changes in family structure in response to an archetypal crisis, World War II. Census data generally support the hypotheses. (Author)

The rising health and social services needs of the elderly can be met in part by using the potential productivity of older people. This study examined the extent to which older people serve as a resource and the potentiality for further expanding their productive contributions. The Minnesota Senior Study involved a telephone survey with a…

The National Survey of Family Growth is a periodic survey administered to women between the ages of 15 and 44 years and designed to produce national estimates of statistics on fertility, family planning, and aspects of maternal and child health that are closely related to childbearing. This report describes findings from the 1982 National Survey…

This paper reports on a study of the effect of aging on various kinds of social participation and the relationship between the level of participation of older adults (age 50 through 69) and their earlier participation. The data collected during interviews with 1,500 adults of Nebraska in 1961-62 were used. Seven participation variables such as…

Examined religious participation among elderly blacks (N=581) using data from a national sample of black Americans. Three indicators of religious participation were utilized: frequency of religious service attendance, church membership, and the degree of subjective religiosity. Found that religious participation varied by gender, marital status,…

Investigated the relationship between substance abuse and child abuse-neglect by analyzing child protective services workers' (N=21) responses to a questionnaire. Found significant demographic differences between substance- and nonsubstance-abuse child abusers, and differences in protective service workers' service plans for substance and…

Developed norms for an adult industrial population for the Eysenck Personality Inventory. An analysis of scale scores by age, sex, marital status, and occupational category revealed significant differences in extraversion scale scores by age and sex. Norm tables are presented by sex. (Author)

To analyze salary differentials between male and female non-academic university employees, data were collected on age, education, sex, marital status, years at the university, and job. An analysis based on the job title, the Manpower Administration classification scheme, and the authors' classification reveal that women earn less than men. (EC)

Compared Missouri data for 915 protective custody (PC) inmates and 9,593 non-PC inmates. PCs were found to have more deficient ratings than non-PCs among all social, medical, and psychological variables examined. Some indices (age, sex offenses) followed stereotypical patterns; unexpected findings included longer PC sentence length, and PC…

Examined impact of diagnosis of affective disorder, anxiety disorder, and substance abuse before and after age 20 on multiple measures of education, socioeconomic and employment status, childbearing, marital status, and instability in 3,000 respondents from Piedmont Health Survey. Found all categories associated with social outcomes regardless of…