Results from questions related to the problem of accepting a small reward immediately or waiting for a bigger reward showed that at the fourth grade level Black and Mexican-American children were more prone than Anglo children to accept the immediate gratification. (Author/KM)

To evaluate the tenability of two causal orderings of variables in the development of career-orientation, responses of 92 college senior women to Need Achievement, Dating Frequency, and Career-Orientation items were analyzed. (Author)

This paper explores the gifted child in relation to drugs. The author proposes a curriculum for parents and educators who wish to take steps to guide the gifted child past the drug scene. Factors leading to drug abuse among the gifted were identified by teachers, counselors, and parents attending drug abuse workshops at the 1972 conference of the…

Investigates the role of television in the satisfaction of various psychological needs in the viewer. Through the Q-sort method and subsequent factor analysis, six viewer typologies are identified. (JVP)

The purpose of the present study was to factor analyze a set of items frequently used to measure Maslow need categories to obtain further information on their structure in relation to the Maslow system. (Author)

A roundtable of physicians discuss the ways in which lonely people, both men and women, use sexual activity as an outlet for their need to be needed," usually with unsatisfactory results. (CJ)

Points out that fulfilling role-related needs can eliminate or reduce burnout, stress, and apathy. Provides a list of needs and ways of satisfying these needs. (PD)

A school psychologist's assumptions regarding private practice along with his findings when these assumptions were tested in the private sector are presented. The experiential findings result in suggestions regarding training and recommended questions to be asked by school psychologists who are contemplating involvement in private practice.…

Reports that four out of five cohorts maturing between the ages of 61-64 years to 65-68 years exhibited an increase in their use of television for process rather than for content. (GT)

Reports results of a study of the extent to which a New York newspaper strike and a television blackout in the Netherlands caused feelings of frustration related to basic need gratifications, as well as the extent to which the observed gratification frustrations explained general irritation about missing the newspaper or television. (GT)

Examines the degree to which the Growth Need Strength scales (job choice and would like formats) of the Job Diagnostic Survey correlate with, first, other measures of needs and values employed in research as moderators of the job scope-job satisfaction relationship; and, second, a measure of social desirability. (Author)

Offers suggestions for managers relative to the employee selection process, focusing on the identification of a potential employee's needs and the employer's motivators that affect employee productivity. Discusses the use of a preemployment survey and offers a questionnaire that allows matching of the employee's needs with employment…

An organization of over 400 retired faculty members from a state university was concerned about the increasing frailty of some of its members and the difficulties some members were expecting in the near future in being able to remain in their present homes. It was suggested that the organization could start to function as a self-help or…

Examines the responses of 238 prospective secondary teachers to the Personality Types and Occupations questionnaire which asked them to rate the degree to which each of the 18 types would be likely to be satisfied or frustrated in secondary teaching. Finding consistent with Kuhlen and Dipboye (1959) which found moderate to considerable…

This manual is divided into three major parts. Part One explores the role and process of planning delivery services to the aging, including leadership. Part Two offers several methods for carrying out each of seven steps delineated in the planning process, and describes their application to the delivery of services for the aging. Part Three…