This study examined whether characteristics of behavioral items reported by parent and child are related to parent-child agreement. Data were collected from 20 judges rating 59 child behaviors on 11 dimensions hypothesized to affect parent-child agreement. Data from 675 parent-child dyads (85% female caregivers, 62% male children, aged 7-17)…

This two-pronged study seeks to ascertain the research psychographic characteristics of a select group of nurse professoriate (n=37) in a comprehensive university in the Philippines. The quantitative part of the study had an adapted survey questionnaire, which profiled the demographic and psychographic characteristics of the respondents. Defining…

The main purpose of this study was to examine early childhood education teachers' attitudes toward teaching, and their relationship to internal-external locus of control and sociotropy and autonomy orientations. The participants in this study were limited to 180 undergraduate students enrolled in early childhood education in three different…

Researchers over the past two decades have increasingly recognized the importance of neighborhood contexts for youth development. For example, living in a disadvantaged neighborhood has been associated with a wide range of negative outcomes throughout the early years of the life course. However, neighborhoods likely have very different effects,…

The third in a series of reports from P/PV's three-year study of the role Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of the youth they serve, "Making Every Day Count" examines how Club participation is related to youth's positive and healthy development in three outcome areas identified by Boys & Girls Clubs of America as central to its mission: good…

Much research has focused on student views about physics concepts, with an emphasis on the identification of alternative conceptions, and how curricula and professional development may ameliorate the situation. However, there has been little work on determining the extent of, and in separating, the student and teacher/classroom level variables…

This booklet is designed to help people understand and interact better with people with autism, through descriptions and suggestions for dealing with 33 autistic behaviors. First, the booklet provides a simple list, or index, of the 33 behaviors. Then, for each behavior, the typical "common response" (but not helpful) response is given, along with…

The interactive effects of Air Force occupational specialty and personnel characteristics on predictions of tenure for first-term enlisted airmen were studied. Historical data files were compiled on 280,039 Air Force enlistees. Two classes of variables were extracted for the sample: personnel characteristics including age, sex, race, educational…

This study of 70 seventh graders and 70 college freshman examined the extent to which early and late adolescents hold specific attitudes concerning desirable traits in prospective mates. The stability of these attitudes was studied over age and sex. (BRT)

Article discussed the restructuring of philosophy and attitudes in the field of mental retardation as well as the proliferation of programs for training the retarded. (Author/RK)

Social psychological research on attitude/belief similarity points to perceived similarity between people as leading to greater attraction and more favorable evaluations. When applied to the area of performance evaluations, organizational research on raters and ratees has focused primarily on the characteristics of the participants of the…

The SSHA and the VPI were administered to 100 undergraduates. The scales of the two instruments were compared using canonical analysis. The analysis revealed a relationship between a component of the SSHA and a component of the VPI which accounted for 31 percent of the variance of the two instruments. (Author)

Thoughts on some of the parameters of the field worker as a person are collected to guide potential employers of similar fieldworkers. (AG)

With the development of scales for the Strong Vocational Interest (SVIB) to measure the six cognitive interest styles propounded by Holland, a parsimonious and comprehensive mapping of the occupational world was available and lent itself to the study of measuring inheritance of vocational preferences among twins. (Author)