As students continue to face complex mental and physical health challenges, schools have been tasked with an increasingly critical role in meeting their multifaceted needs. To learn more, the EdWeek Research Center conducted a nationally representative survey of K-12 school health staffers, including school nurses and health teachers. While most…

Within international development greater income is assumed to lead to greater need fulfilment, which increases subjective wellbeing. The Wellbeing in Developing Countries ESRC Research Group's dataset provides an opportunity to test these relationships using measures of income, expenditure, perceived and "objective" need satisfaction and…

In this age of accountability and evaluation, client motivation is most often cited as the primary reason for therapeutic failure. It is suggested that certain videotape procedures can contribute effectively to the amelioration of this aspect of the therapeutic dilemma. (Author)

Extends previous applications of expectancy-value theory to gratifications research in a study of student exposure to television news. Findings suggest that expectancy-value and gratification-seeking orientations are highly related but distinctly different judgments. Discusses issues in research on emotion-cognition and problems in attitude…

This exploratory endeavor utilized a functional discrepancy model of mass communication research to examine the audience experience with television generally and its news in particular. Specifically, gratifications sought from television in general and gratifications perceived as being obtained from television news are analyzed for a random sample…

Author theorizes that American youth, accustomed to media promises of instant results'' for products, has turned to drugs as a method of acquiring instant insight'' and knowledge. (SP)

Studies report contradictory finding on the hypothesis of an inverse relationship between work satisfaction and retirement attitude. Some suggest this inverse relationship occurs only where work acts as a key organizing factor for the workers. Data testing these hypotheses were analyzed from a study of employed males age 50 and older (N=1,922).…

Two recreational activities, deer hunting and goose hunting, both similar in form, are compared. It was hypothesized that the activity for which participants rated the process, the goal, and the social interaction as most important to the experience and for which participants showed the strongest family ties and social support for participation…

Programs to help individuals stop smoking have shown disappointing results since many quitters resume smoking within six months. A closer study of motives, personal styles and subjective cognitive schema that maintain smoking behavior might provide useful clues to helping individuals stop smoking permanently. Male patients in a VA Medical Center…

A study was undertaken to investigate, from a uses and gratifications perspective, the effects of serious television drama shown in a foreign country. Specifically, the study examined the impact of "Roots," a highly acclaimed American television drama on slavery, in Great Britain and provided comparisons with the findings of…

Implications of Maslow's Need Hierarchy are considered in this paper, along with possible qualifications to the suggested structure and potential effects of superimposing relative deprivation theory onto the hierarchy as an approach to adult education. The interfacing of needs and alternative structurings is discussed in terms of two theories: (1)…

The Center for Independent Living of Greater Bridgeport and its operating agencies conducted a survey of 32 people, the majority of whom were developmentally disabled and residents of institutional or community settings, in both rural and urban areas. The aim of the survey was to determine the perceived needs and levels of independence experienced…

This research project involves the examination and investigation of the biological correlates of vocational needs. The research attempts to (1) successfully develop a biographical inventory (BI) which can accurately predict vocational needs and (2) extend the construct validity of the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ). This paper describes…

Outlines opposing theories of the role of the commercial mass media in national economic development; reports on a survey of the attitudes of 636 adult residents of Barquisimeto, Venezuela, with respect to consumption, advertising, and national development, and shows how the results relate to the theory proposed by Daniel Lerner. (GT)

The proposition that Appalachian religion persists because it is performing a significant function as a mechanism helping the adjustment of people who due to modern changes, have become dislocated socially, economically, and psychologically was tested. Religiosity was defined on the basis of 4 variables: (1) religious beliefs; (2) need to use…