An Examination of the Variables Related to Minority Youth Employment

This study involves an examination of the postprogram experiences of youth in the National Urban League Youth Career Development Project. It seeks to identify those factors responsible for helping some participants secure and maintain employment. Likewise, it attempts to determine impediments for participants who either never found employment or found employment but were unable to retain their jobs.     

The “New” Relationship Models of Women's Identity: A Review and Critique for Counselors

This article reviews theories of women's identity that emphasize the relational capacities of women. It provides a brief summary of five theories that have received attention during the 1980s and focuses on how these perspectives can be integrated and enrich counseling practices. It also cautions against oversimplifying the nature of women's identity and suggests that an inclusive view of women's or men's identity must devote attention to individual differences, situational factors, and external social forces that influence persons.     

Referral in the Wake of Conscientious Objection to Abortion

Currently, the preferred accommodation for conscientious objection to abortion in medicine is to allow the objector to refuse to accede to the patient's request so long as the objector refers the patient to a physician who performs abortions. The referral part of this arrangement is controversial, however. Pro‐life advocates claim that referrals make objectors complicit in the performance of acts that they, the objectors, find morally offensive. McLeod argues that the referral requirement is justifiable, although not in the way that people usually assume.     

Integrating the Search for Work and Leisure

Career counselors use leisure interests as a source of ideas for vocational decision making. A leisure search is built on the same self-directed skills that have proven so successful in the job search.     

Attitudes and Perceptions of Communication in the Hiring Process

The attitudes and perceptions of 295 college students regarding the hiring of individuals with various communication characteristics and the rank ordering of 20 job-related criteria were compared with the attitudes of 95 recruiters.     

The Psychological and Physical Weil-Being of Women in Sex-Stereotyped Occupations

The authors examined the perceptions of women who work in three sex-specific occupational categories and the effects of their participation in these occupations on several psychological and physical health variables.     

Modeling the Gratification-Seeking Process of Television Viewing

This study attempted to establish the audience activity construct as an intervening factor in the gratification-seeking process, by taking into account the expanded viewing options in the emerging multichannel environment. It examined the viewing motives, activities, and satisfaction of adolescents—the first generation to grow up in that environment. The major theoretical assumption tested was whether more strongly motivated viewers would more actively engage in various audience activities throughout the viewing process and receive greater viewing satisfaction afterwards. Findings from testing the path model generally support this assumption. However, the role of media exposure in the gratification-seeking process comes into question due to its lack of causal linkage to several model components. A revised theoretical model is proposed to help inform future research.