College women believe both the maternal role and the career role provide a variety of rewards. Though the marital and emotional costs of each role are recognized, college women do not hold a realistic impression of the role conflict and strain connected with the career role. (PS)

Examined role position and interdependence in 135 pairs of student women and their mothers and 119 pairs of middle-aged women and their mothers. Results suggest that except for younger pairs where married daughters and their mothers are less interdependent than single daughters and their mothers, interdependence is unrelated to role positions.…

This study investigated young adults' (N=88) perceptions of their parents' sex role characteristics on the basis of maternal employment status. The object of the study was to assess whether an employed mother's nontraditional role affected perceptions of her sex-role characteristics and those of her husband. In addition, the study looked at the…

This project investigated attitudes of entering freshmen college women in an attempt to learn whether traditional sex-role ideologies were still predominant, and what the career and educational aspiration levels of these young women were. The variables most concerning the authors were career salience, educational and career aspirations, opinions…

Five papers on applied linguistics in educational contexts are presented. "What Can Second Language Learners Learn from Each Other? Only Their Researcher Knows for Sure" (Teresa Pica, Felicia Lincoln-Porter, Diana Paninos, Julian Linnell) presents further research on interaction and negotiation among language learners.…