The effects of emotional role playing on interpersonal attitudes toward the disabled are explored. Three treatment groups (role players, vicarious role players, and controls) were involved. Role playing consisted of traveling about the campus in a wheel chair for an hour. Results indicated that, compared to the control experience, both direct and…

This study focuses on the roles of partner-and self-perception in the stability and quality of male-male, female-female, female-male, and male-female interpersonal relationships. The results reveal that, with the exception of male same-sex relationships individuals perceive greater satisfaction from "maximizing" or self-enhancement choices in…

This article focuses on one principal's efforts to cope with a conflict situation involving a teacher and to confront his own limitations in perspective and role. The story unfolds through his own narrative, commentary on that narrative, and dialogue with a consultant. (Author/DS)

The wife of a college president writes a letter to her husband about the effects of the presidency on marriage, home, careers, and family, and her husband responds about the positive effects of his partner's participation on his leadership role and career. (MSE)

An exploratory study suggests that legal and medical training can have a negative impact on marriage: role behaviors learned during professional socialization and transferred to the spouse role are not conducive to a satisfying marital relationship, and student and spouse roles compete for time and personal commitment. (MSE)

The last four decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of women entering employment. This is particularly true in Europe and although more European women are working outside the home, the patterns of female employment have changed very little. An analysis of these patterns is presented. It was found that women continue to dominate…

In this study students' perceptions of the workplace were analyzed to see how personal problems affected work ability. It was hypothesized that personal problems negatively affect students' ability to complete various types of tasks at work. It was also hypothesized that regardless of their attitudes toward the work environment, the more…

In interpreting data gathered in an administrative internship program, the author suggests that certain attitude changes, taken as an index of role shift, are associated with interaction patterns with significant others. (Author/MF)

Assessed the cross-cultural perceptions of appropriate and inappropriate behaviors for three sets of role relationships between employers and economically-disadvantaged job trainees. Results suggest that job trainees perceived the role of a superordinate as being more punitive, more deceitful, and less friendly than the employers thought would be…

This paper examines role attitude-behavior congruence for seven family roles. Findings based on data from 1154 married men and women indicate where role attitude-behavior incongruence exists, both married men and women express egalitarian role attitudes, but this egalitarianism is not generally reflected in role behaviors. (Author)

Discusses the claim that male/female speech style differences in Japanese have the function of indexing the social role of the speaker and that identifying oneself as belonging to the male or female gender has no implication of a higher or lower status in society. The interview's findings imply that students need to be informed of the…

The study reported here is an analysis of discourse in conversations with a Laotian woman who has lived in the United States with her husband and children since 1986. Analysis focuses on the nature of women's agency in Lao and U.S. cultures, highlighting the woman's perception of her changing identities as wife and mother. Excerpts of the…

Roles in the Jewish-American family system tend to be flexible, without a clearly defined division of labor or hierarchy of authority. Husband-father and wife-mother roles tend to be somewhat interchangeable and androgynous. Because role expectations constantly change to fit changing circumstances, ambiguity in each member's perception of…