This paper reports findings from interviews with fourteen Australian artist academics, who discuss the complex relationships between their Arts practice, their Research and their Teaching. We refer to this as the ART nexus because of the strong flow of information reported between these three activities. However, this information flow is not…

Research has shown that entering freshmen and two-year college transfers enroll with unrealistically high expectations of the college environment. This study found that the phenomenon existed for entering graduate students in three university departments. Established graduate students were also found to perceive their departmental environments…

The present study compares marijuana users and nonusers in terms of (a) psychological needs, (b) self-descriptions, (c) self-esteem, (d) academic achievement, (e) ordinal position of birth, and (f) attitudes toward the legalization of various items. Some significant differences were reported between groups of users. (Author/PC)

College men are shown to hold more liberal attitudes toward working wives than has generally been assumed. Many men prefer a wife who pursues a full-time career. (Author)

Male undergraduates (N=35) were divided into three groups on the basis of scores on Mosher's Forced-Choice Guilt Inventory. The amount of time subjects spent viewing and rating photographic slides of varying erotic content was unobtrusively recorded. Results are consistent with a predicted defensive response for high sex guilt subjects. (Author)

The investigators sought to define and examine the attitudes and beliefs of members of the student personnel profession on current professional issues. The major conclusion drawn from the study was that significant differences in attitudes and beliefs existed among ACPA, NASPA, and NAWDAC members. (Author)

Explores attitudes of dental and medical students toward death and dying. Attitudes toward death influencing choice between dental school and medical school are latent. Attitudes of dental and medical students toward death may be differentially affected by their professional experiences. (Author/BEF)

Small and large school counseling center directors generally agree on which functions are appropriate for paraprofessionals. There have been minor changes in their attitudes during the past three years. There have also been greater changes in the sources from which paraprofessionals are drawn--more volunteer and less paid personnel. (Authro)

Campus officers (N=52) were administered seven personality and attitude measures. Their performance was predicted on nine criterion measures, using multiple regression. Results yielded significant predictions on all criteria, but showed each criterion was associated with different, sometimes opposite characteristics. Negative racial attitudes were…

Freshmen completed the Mooney Problem Check List and reported how much financial support their parents provided. The relationship between parents' support and finances, living conditions, and employment problems was highly significant, with women reporting more financial problems than men. (Author)

The Omnibus Personality Inventory and the Student Orientations Survey were administered to undergraduates at three institutions and substantial correlations between various scales of these two inventories were obtained. On the whole, students' educational attitudes were consonant with their general personality characteristics and orientations.…

In attempting to assess emerging attitudes toward women, 186 students in five different behavioral and social science college courses were tested at the beginning and end of the semester. Each class devoted varying percentages of the total curriculum to the topic of changing male-female roles. Pre-post differences were examined for the following…

The author conducted a cross-cultural survey of attitudes toward the pill among university students, part of this international sample being a group of young Canadians. The subjects were students from a southwestern Canadian university and were stratified as to sex and amount of education. The author employed his Pill Scale, a 25-item Likert type…

An exploratory study of American College Personnel Association members' attitudes about the process of collective bargaining was conducted. These attitudes were analyzed according to individual and institutional characteristics, in order to provide the basis for recommendations to the association concerning its appropriate role with collective…

In a noisy setting, college students (N=40) worked at anagrams and proofreading. Students were assigned to a perceived own control or no control condition and to a constant or increasing rate of exposure. Those who believed their rapid button-pressing produced the silence improved significantly at proofreading but not at anagrams. (Author)