A sample of 394 married couples is employed to test the possibility of an association between marital satisfaction and personal (attitudinal) anomie. The hypothesis is supported. Conclusions are offered relevant to anomie theory, and to utilization of marital and family phenomena as independent variables in causal explanations of nonfamily events.…

Some studies of sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behavior involve college students who volunteered to participate in the research. The present study assesses the impact of volunteer bias when considering random samples of an entire student body. (Author)

The characterization of Molly Bloom, as portrayed by James Joyce in Ulysses, is an embodiment not of what woman is but of what man in a sexist society would like her to be. (Author/CJ)

Women's liberation movement is seen as a political problem of mobilization and participation. Social and economic conditions of Latin America are briefly analyzed and compared with those of North Atlantic socieites leading to the conclusion that a repetition of the pattern is not likely to occur soon in Latin America. (Author)

Surveys legislators in Minnesota about their attitudes toward family policy and related activities. Findings indicate a need for broad public discussion about family policy so that family policy maps of legislators may be more clearly drawn and prospects of coherent family policy more likely. (Author/BEF)

This study utilized an axiomatic approach to develop a middle-range theory of premarital sexual intercourse. Using an unanalyzed data base of 336 never-married coeds in a southern state college and in a southern medical complex, 15 propositions were either statistically significant or in the stated direction. (Author)

In an earlier study done at a conservative campus, co-eds with high self-esteem were sexually conservative. The present investigation predicts that the nature of the permissiveness/self-esteem relationship is dependent on cultural norms. (Author)

This paper develops a definition and conceptual model of violence against children on the basis of a series of nationwide epidemiologic studies, public opinion, and press survyes. (Author)

Examines family policy and family impact analysis in relation to concepts such as policy, policy analysis, social policy, social policy analysis, and social impact assessment. It attempts to arrive at definitional clarity and contribute to the developing conceptualization of family policy and family impact analysis. (Author)

The opinion among Swedes is that there is a higher commitment and a higher responsibility among those having been married for a long time than among those having been married for a short time. These data point toward existence of a renewed or perhaps a new courtship and marriage pattern. (Author)

This study assesses the incidence and social correlates of the female form of the Chameleon Syndrome--an accommodative response to an environment perceived as hostile to inappropriate sex role behavior--among a sample of 3200 American adolescents. (Author)

This paper is an attempt to draw together what information there is available on the participation of women in revolutionary movements in Latin America. (Author)

Eleven hundred undergraduates completed a questionnaire requesting details of their heterosexual relationship experiences while in college. The cohabiting students differ little from their noncohabiting counterparts on family and community background, or on levels of intellectual and emotional functioning. (Author)