A report is presented of a study made to identify those primary variables which account for the inclination of Oklahoma classroom teachers to leave the profession permanently. The survey questionnaire addressed the major intrinsic and extrinsic reasons why teachers leave the profession. A sample was chosen from 213 independent and dependent school…

Chronic pain is a syndrome which forces many changes upon the patient and upon the family system. To examine the relationship between patients' and their spouses' psychosocial functioning, questionnaire data were collected from 28 male and 18 female patients referred for evaluation to an outpatient pain management program. The Minnesota…

Community integrational groups, called family clusters, have emerged to meet the needs for connectedness of both individuals and families. To examine the effectiveness of the family cluster two groups were assessed. Cluster I, comprised of single-parent and nuclear families, and grandparents, met 2-3 hours per week for 12 weeks. Cluster II, made…

People tend to have such lofty conceptions of love and marital happiness that little day-to-day simple acts of kindness are seldom considered. This study investigated specific, repetitive, small daily acts that strengthen marriage, and little acts that disturb a stable relationship. Participants (N=57) were individuals who had been happily married…

A study compared the organizational styles of television station program directors (PDs) against indicators of market and department size, personnel stability, job satisfaction, and productivity. Researchers used the four types of management styles used by Likert: exploitative authoritarian, benevolent authoritarian, consultative, and…

The experiment reported here was conducted during a 12-month period at four plants owned by the same company. Managers were given artificial reports about previous findings obtained in implementing job enlargement and job rotation programs. Led to expect higher productivity as a result of these organizational innovations, the managers increased…

A study examined the validity of using the Minnesota Job Description Questionnaire to measure occupational reinforcer patterns (ORPs). Although ORP profiles (twenty-one adjusted scales) were developed a decade ago to operationalize a key variable in the Theory of Work Adjustment (Lofquist and Davis, 1969), little validity evidence exists. An…

A THEORY OF WORK ADJUSTMENT WHICH MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SCIENCE OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OCCUPATIONAL BEHAVIOR IS PROPOSED. IT BUILDS ON THE BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF STIMULUS, RESPONSE, AND REINFORCEMENT, AND PROVIDES A RESEARCH PARADIGM FOR GENERATING TESTABLE HYPOTHESES. IT WAS DERIVED FROM EARLY RESEARCH EFFORTS OF THE…

As technology continues to increase the complexity of our occupational society and relationships between education and work become closer and closer, it becomes necessary to create for youth a world in which educational institutions and the business/industrial community collaborate to provide an environment, a set of learning experiences, and a…

A study explored these questions: 1) Are there significant differences in perceived equity (equitable exchange situation of rewards to teachers in return for their contributions) between those who teach in a Type 1 school (with a traditional staffing arrangement) and those in a Type 2 school (with differentiated staffing and more differentiated…

The "moderator variable" hypothesis states that the degree of correspondence between workers' abilities and the ability requirements of a job will correlate with job performance or satisfactoriness, with the degree of correlation varying with the satisfaction level. This hypothesis may be operationalized in two ways: (1) when workers are employed…

This paper presents and discusses a portion of empirical data collected from a large sample of British factory workers and relates these workers' perception of the discretion available to them to their work satisfaction. Perceived discretion is measured for two sectors of work experience: first, discretion surrounding actual job performance; and…

Should problems arise in procuring a sufficient number of qualified personnel to maintain viable force levels under zero-draft conditions, it becomes necessary to identify incentive programs which could be used to stimulate recruiting effort. A total of 3391 officer trainees and 9333 basic airmen entering service during fiscal year 1972 were…

To determine if the career needs of undergraduate students entering a teacher preparation program would be similar to the needs expressed by experienced teachers on the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIP), the responses of 100 undergraduate elementary education students at Michigan State University were compared to those of 178 career…