This study was an analysis of women's roles, especially as these roles pertain to career development. The sample was comprised of 21 women who were members of a graduate workshop, "Women in the Modern World." These women were studied in depth through comparisons of data from various questionnaries distributed during the workshop and from analysis…

This research examines adolescents' perceptions of marriage and marital roles, as measured by a variation of the Kuhn-McPartland Twenty Statements Test. Differences in the meanings given by dating and engaged students suggest that courtship may serve as a process of socialization to married roles. Results also reveal that the perceptions of…

The interpersonal values and role perceptions of a stratified random sample of vocational education teachers with less than one year's experience and their administrators were studied in Missouri. Data gathered through the use of three self-administered, mailed instruments were from teachers representing three groups who had (1) a baccalaureate…

Conversation reminds us that we are not alone, that shared language is the opportunity to try on our many masks to see how many of them we can do without. The variety of pleasures accrued from conversation--"layers of pleasure"--deepen only as they move away from the individual orbits into the circle of mutual experience. When conversation is…

Dominance and sociability scores on the Interpersonal Check List were obtained for medical and nursing students. Results indicate a discrepancy between concepts of self and ideal self, as well as considerable disagreement between medical and nursing students about their roles on the physician-nurse team. (EVH)

Compared husband's role in single- and dual-earner families on perceptions of the ideal role of husband by both spouses, decision-making roles, and division of domestic labor. Except in decision-making, the wife's employment made little difference to either perception or performance of the husband's role. (Author/KS).

Examined effects of husbands' and wives' (N=85 couples) social cognitive processes toward one another on their marital adjustment and conjugal power. Results confirmed that spouses who perceived each other as unique individuals rather than undifferentiated role occupants experienced significantly greater marital adjustment than did spouses who…

Focuses on the primary interactions of the intern with the supervisor, colleagues, and co-workers within the structural framework of the organization, and examines the ways in which the expectations of the intern and other organization members affect these relations. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that attitudes toward others, as well as attitudes of others, may play a role in self-image development. Data analysis from a cross-sectional sampling clarifies and measures self esteem, perceived self, and interpersonal valuation. (Author/KM)

Argument of this article is that the instrumental approach to communication, or as authors label it, the rhetorical approach, best promises to facilitate human understanding and to effect social cohesion. (Editor/MB)

Discusses inaccuracy of sexual expectations of members of opposite sex in direction of increased permissiveness, probably because of use of a "line by both male and female. Presents implications for sexual behavior standards. (Author/CJ)

The wave of the future for student personnel work is to restructure all service relationships so that they enhance the worth and dignity of each student. This revolution requires retraining. (Author)

The data provided evidence in support of the theoretical point of view that role discrepancies explain a considerable amount of the variation in marital satisfaction. In addition, evidence was found that it is meaningful to take the importance variable into account in understanding the relationship between role discrepancy and marital…

Other-directed (interpersonally sensitive) or inner-directed (interpersonally less sensitive) students (N=80) observed a videotape of a person acting in either a role-consonant or a role-deviant manner. As expected, there was significantly less variance among the ratings when other-directed observers viewed role-deviant behavior than in the other…