Home management is the planning, controlling and evaluating
of family resources to attain the goals of a family. Since making
decisions and relating them to each other is an important part of
planning, decision making is an essential part of home management.
The purpose of this study was to test...
The purpose of the study was to find out how a group of
faculty wives with children used their time and to investigate some
factors in housing and equipment which might influence how they
used their time. A comparison was made between homemakers
with two pre-school age children and homemakers...
The major purpose of this study was to determine if there was
relationship between the power of the influence techniques used by
teacher in a nursery school setting and the response of the children
to these techniques.
The subjects were sixteen nursery school children and two
trained nursery school teachers...
The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of data
obtained from individual oral and group written administration of a
classroom simulation test. The individual oral procedure involved
one group of subjects taking the simulator test individually and responding
orally, while the group written procedure involved another
group...
The primary purpose of this study was to assess the influence
of information on Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance in motivating
homemakers to do further family financial security planning.
Planning was measured in terms of estimating OASDI benefits and
total income available for retirement and for survivors.
The subjects...
The purpose of this study was to compare the level of behavioral
understanding of preschool children of mothers who had observed in
the nursery school with the level of behavioral understanding of
mothers who had not observed. "Behavioral understanding" was defined
as a mother's degree of awareness of the factors...
The purpose of this study was to construct a measuring instrument
involving attitudes toward money. Seven scales were developed
using the Likert method of summated ratings. Five of these were
shown to be acceptably reliable for use in measuring attitudes of
groups similar to the standardization group of 4-H youth...
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that four-year
old children would better remember what happened in science
experiments, and the basic concepts involved in them, when presentation
of the experiments involved an element of surprise. Surprise
for this study was considered as a situation in which...
The major concerns of this study were: (1) the money
management practices of teenage girls and their parents,
(2) parental practices in teaching the use of money, (3)
parental use of money to control behavior, (4) the sources
of the teenage girls' spending money, and (5) the amount
and disposition...
The major purpose of this study was to compare the occurrence
of "delinquent" and "non-delinquent" responses and their contingent
social reinforcements during informal cottage peer interaction at a
training school for adolescent delinquent girls. The following hypotheses were tested: (1) The occurrence of delinquent responses exceeds
the occurrence of non-delinquent...
The study is based on a frame of reference for comparing characteristics
of ordered pairs of members of small groups ("relators" in relation to "co-relatives"). An attempt is made to replicate selected
findings from a study of the acquaintance process reported by
Theodore Newcomb. The effectiveness of three measures of...
This study focused on the relationship between parental attitudes
and the conscience orientation of children, testing the hypotheses that
(1) parents who had children with an external conscience orientation
would show significantly greater disparity between their independence
granting and achievement inducement attitudes than parents whose
children had conventional or humanistic...
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship
between social acceptance and observed peer interaction in a select
group of preschool children.
The subjects were 30 children enrolled
in two sessions of a child development laboratory sponsored by the
Department of Family Life at Oregon State University.
The...
Project work of 4-H club members has been traditionally evaluated by a judge who awarded it a ribbon which denoted the project's quality. In Oregon several counties have tried a judge-member discussion period during which the judge and club member together evaluate the member's project in an attempt to improve...