Showing papers by "Roosevelt University published in 1979"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined patterns of change in career-relevant interests, attitudes, and personality characteristics among first-year students in one law school and found that a single entering law school class can be viewed as a varied group in terms of career plans and potential behavioral styles.
Abstract: This article examines in detail patterns of change in career-relevant interests, attitudes, and personality characteristics among first-year students in one law school. The data presented suggest that a single entering law school class can be viewed as a varied group in terms of career plans and potential behavioral styles. Moreover, immersion in the law school environment may accentuate this initial variability. Although some studies have suggested that, overall, first-year law students experience a drop in law interests, including interests in altruistic and “socially conscious” career activities, the methods of analysis used in this study suggest alternative interpretations of some aspects of such changes. In addition, the author believes these methods shed greater light on the overall process of professional development in law school.
23 citations
01 Dec 1979
TL;DR: Compromise assessment procedures involving nonintrusive measurement of subcutaneous fat and selected anthropometric dimensions may offer an incomplete but welcome improvement over sole reliance on bodyweight as an index of obesity.
Abstract: The most common methods of assessing degree of obesity in humans are reviewed. These include anthropometry, somatotyping, bodyweight, skinfold calipering, densitometry, and several nondensitometric procedures. The evidence suggests that bodyweight may often be an unreliable and invalid index of obesity. The parameters influencing its inaccuracy are discussed. These include age, height, sex, muscularity, and degree of obesity or amount of recent weight loss. The most reliable and valid measures of human bodyfat are generally the most complicated and impractical. Compromise assessment procedures involving nonintrusive measurement of subcutaneous fat and selected anthropometric dimensions may offer an incomplete but welcome improvement over sole reliance on bodyweight as an index of obesity.
6 citations
TL;DR: The self-exploration that occurs in peer counselor training facilitates the young adult's search for identity, and an outlet for the expression of a growing altruism is provided through working with others as a peer counselor after the training is completed as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Paraprofessionals are attaining an increasingly important role in facilitating helping relationships. From a human growth and development perspective, this trend is sound theoretically and consistent with the developmental task concept of both Erikson (1959), and Maslow (1962). The self-exploration that occurs in peer counselor training facilitates the young adult’s search for identity. Additionally, an outlet for the expression of a growing altruism is provided through working with others as a peer counselor after the training is completed.
4 citations
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TL;DR: The review of the literature on the effects of medical care on health outcomes suggests that prenatal care and dental care are effective, but pediatric care (except for immunizations and preventive doctor care for adults are not), and the optimal NHI plan should be characterized by benefits that fall as income rises.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine issues related to the coverage of preventive care under national health insurance. Four specific kinds of medical care services are included under the rubric of preventive care: prenatal care; pediatric care, dental care, and preventive physicians' services for adults. We consider whether preventive care should be covered under national health insurance, and if so what is the nature of the optimal plan. Our review of the literature on the effects of medical care on health outcomes suggests that prenatal care and dental care are effective, but pediatric care (except for immunizations) and preventive doctor care for adults are not. Moreover, health outcomes in which care is effective correspond to outcomes in which income-differences in health are observed. These empirical results and the theory of health as the source of consumption externalities indicate that the optimal NHI plan should be characterized by benefits that fall as income rises. In addition, the plan should be selective rather than general with respect to the types of services covered.
4 citations
TL;DR: The average grade equivalent reading comprehension scores of students in 50 black schools and 50 white schools were compared under two forms of test administration as discussed by the authors, and it was concluded that the use of grade level testing with the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills is biased in favor of low scoring subgroups.