Using data from a longitudinal study of a marriage cohort, relationships between various measures of income (antecedent, current and expected future income, as well as measures of income change) are examined. The income variable which most consistently accounts for variation in fertility is wife's income. (Author)

Normative resource theory and relationships between marital decision-making and marital satisfaction were tested in a study of 1370 Austrian women. Data indicate social status differences, but not the spouses' relative social status influence the spouses' relative participation in marital decisions. (Author)

A 17-item semantic differential attitudinal measure was completed by 30 students and 22 older consultants enrolled in a Psychology of Aging course during the first and last class meetings. Positive changes in attitudes about old people were found for almost all pairs of items. (Author)

Questionnaires were administered to a sample of adults to assess the extent of social distance between people of different ages. The findings suggest that the greater the age difference (younger or older) between people, the greater the social distance they feel. (Author)

A study of desire for, frequency of, and attitudes towards extramarital involvement (EMI) was conducted, using 100 male and female college students ranging in age from 19 to 55. Predictive factors other than desire, frequency, and attitude were number of marriages, and the social desirability scale. (Author)

Tests the hypothesis that a response to a given feedback statement will be its reciprocal. In Phase 1, a pool of feedback statements was written and scaled along dimensions of power (dominance-submission) and affect (affection-hostility). In Phase 2, these statements were used as the basis for giving feedback and replying to it. (Author)

The efficacy of training as a mode of treatment has been tried in many settings with a variety of populations. This study utilizes assertive training as a mode of treatment. Results indicate assertive training as having both positive and negative effects as perceived by trainees and their spouses. (Author)

Serveral facets of the homemaker job were analyzed in terms of the dynamic relationship between husband and wife. Husband and wife pairs (N=71) completed a questionnaire which assessed satisfaction with the homemaker job, marital satisfaction, distribution of responsibility for homemaker tasks between husband and wife, and other variables. (Author)

It was hypothesized that unhappily married couples would show a deficit in problem solving by indicating significantly more unresolved problems and would indicate less involvement with one another in both elective free-time activities and shared sexuality. All hypotheses were confirmed. (Author)

Attendees at workshops and lectures were asked to complete a questionnaire which assessed the following: 1) First death experience, 2) Present conceptualization of death, 3) Anticipated reactions to a personal terminal illness, 4) Resources in managing one's own death, and 5) Difficulties experienced in working with dying persons. (Author)

Two experiments are reported: one in which presentation of external information about a stranger evoked significantly higher attraction ratings than available psychological information; and a second where similarity of Subject and Other on external characteristics had greater effects upon attraction scores than did similarity of psychological…

This study assessed individual psychotherapy outcome after systematically matching patients and therapists on a set of 11 psychological variables selected by factor-analytic techniques. Using therapists' ratings of therapy outcome as the criterion, five regression equations evolved that validly and reliably predict outcome for certain patient or…

A 190-item survey instrument, designed to assess subgroup differences in the behavioral criteria for mental illness labeling, was administered to 241 adults from two populations. The 190 items comprised 25 content homogeneous scales. The instrument was found to compress into 13 separate areas of attributed psychopathology. (Author)

This paper examines the relationship of some social factors with extramarital sexual permissiveness. Findings indicate that the best variable to explain extramarital sexual permissiveness is premarital sexual permissiveness. (Author)

Explores trends in marital satisfaction over three generations using a two-dimensional measure. Findings do not indicate linear decline culminating in disenchantment. Youngest generations report high positive interaction and high negative sentiments; middle generations, low levels of both; and older generations, high positive interaction with…