Argues that human acts are intended to satisfy human needs. A typology of suicidal acts parallels a classification of general human needs. This classification can be found in Murray's "Explorations in Personality" (1938). Twenty-one suicide-need types are defined. (Author)

Offers therapists, parents, and educators a model for understanding adolescent sexuality, focusing on how nonsexual needs drive sexual behavior and produce artificially high sex drive. Proposes that overwhelming intensity of adolescent sex drive is due to factors other than libido or biological phenomena. Advocates teaching teenagers what their…

The linear relationship between intellectual commitment to running and psychobiological dependence upon running is examined. A sample of 540 regular runners (running frequency greater than three days per week for the past year for the majority) was surveyed with a questionnaire. Measures of commitment and dependence on running, as well as…

This article focuses on the problems affecting needs assessment and, in doing so, addresses itself to the inadequate definition of needs, administrators' lack of training, difficulty of obtaining relevant literature, expense, methodological concerns, and political considerations. (Author/SSH)

Objective job satisfaction questionnaires were administered to more than 26,000 U.S. Marines, as part of the Marine Corps' occupational task analysis of 16 separate occupational groups over a three-year period. Results indicate that intrinsic job factors are more potent than extrinsic factors, both as satisfiers and as dissatisfiers. Satisfaction…

Goal analysis is a procedure useful in helping to describe the meaning of the desired goals; whether these goals deal with attitudes, appreciations, or understandings. This book aids people in making better decisions toward their achievement and in recognizing progress and success. Four major parts describing important aspects of goal analysis are…

Reports that people's evaluations of political satire may be based on the interaction of two elements: awareness of the issue satirized and involvement with the issue. (GW)

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)

Compared male professional accountants (N=764) at different career stages with respect to their work needs, work attitudes, and vocational preferences. Results indicated that accountants at different stages differed significantly in their needs, work attitudes, and the extent to which they fit the "conventional" type in Holland's model. (LLL)

The conceptual model described here has resulted from the need to organize a body of knowledge related to the world of work which would enable curriculum developers to prepare accurate, realistic instructional materials. The world of work is described by applying Malinowski's scientific study of the structural components of culture. (Author/DS)

This article describes the findings of a study designed to compare expressed needs and job satisfaction levels among junior and senior workers in the military vocation. (Author)

This article examines the image of women in popular music as it has evolved in recent years from one of purity on a pedestal" to one of nothing more than an object for sexual exploitation. A review of specific writers and their music is presented. (CJ)

Introspective and self-reported benefits of recreation as gleaned from essays written by college students are discussed. (JD)