Reviews current writing center debates about the peer tutor's role and authority. Presents three case studies investigating the ways in which first-time tutors and their clients enact role and authority in their tutorial relationships. (RS)

This paper reviews recent literature related to co-worker involvement in non-sheltered community-based employment programs for persons with mental retardation. Discussion of co-worker roles is categorized into six areas: training, associating, befriending, advocating, evaluating, and information giving. Also discussed are other variables…

Examines the relationships between vocal activity and three other variables: attribution of quality contributions; perceived listening, and perceived understanding. Concludes that frequency and duration of speech serve as a major mediating variable in communicative relationships. (MH)

Using the Minnesota corrections ombudsman as an example, this article discusses the role of an ombudsman, how credibility is established and implications for ombudsman programs in general. (EJT)

Interviews with adults who have been recently handicapped by injury or illness illustrate their participation in determining the imposition and the substance of a deviant label and role, through their active participation in the labeling process. (Author/AM)

To assess patient preferences for male as opposed to female physicians, 120 adults were asked to complete a questionnaire. The results indicated that preference for male versus female physicians was influenced by three factors: gender of respondent, nature of the clinical complaint, and specified physician attributes. Overall, the responses…

Three potentially useful perspectives for the scientific development of human communication theory are the law model, the systems approach, and the rules paradigm. It is the purpose of this paper to indicate the utility of the systems approach. The first section of this paper provides a brief account of the systems view of the world. Outlined in…

A total of 136 women students: math science majors, counselors in training, and teachers in training were subjects in this study concerned with the relationship between women's career choice and their perception of men's views of the feminine ideal. As predicted, women's perceptions of men's views of the feminine ideal were differentially related…

A mediated, interpersonal communications model, such as the one proposed, has the potential of countering the popular notion that world cultures are suffering entropy. Two-way television, via cable or video tape, can be a successful mediating factor in establishing better interpersonal communication. Exemplary models of such systems involve…

As part of a continuing study of the differences between couples seeking marital therapy and those seeking sexual dysfunction therapy, this report examines these two clinical populations on the dimension of discrepant views of the marriage. Results suggest overall discrepancy scores may be an important indicator of stress between partners. (Author)

It is hypothesized that a wife's gainful employment will have differential effects on family interaction patterns, depending on the relative availability and the relative effectiveness of family-internal and family-external support. Female employment does not necessarily result in the development of egalitarian role-relations between the spouses.…

College men and women (N=187) were classified as stereotyped, near-stereotyped, or androgynous by Bem's criteria. Bem's measure of psychological androgyny appears to reflect a highly generalizable personological construct that implicates both desirable and undesirable dimensions of interpersonal behavior. (Author)

In the present study, candidate behavior was conceived as a function of the richness of the interpersonal repertoire brought to the situation of candidacy and of contextual properties of the situation itself. (Author/IRT)

Some major consequences of doing fieldwork in schools over an extended period of time are described. Using Powdermaker's distinction of "stranger and friend," the balance between these two roles and perspectives in terms of role, reciprocity, and receptivity is traced through a description of the author's two year study of student life…

A course of study in social psychology should progress from the personal to the social. It should be organized around the study of four topics: (1) the boundaries of the self; (2) the relation between individuals; (3) communication between individuals; and (4) leadership and social power. (Author/RM)