Chance and choice, change and continuity--that's life.

Responding to this invitation to write an autobiography, I have tried to put in some order, the jumble of memories that come to mind. There are markers of the journey--the major decisions and changes in direction, many influenced by external events. Despite turns and detours, there is also continuity of interests and behavioral style.

Cross-cultural prevention program transfer: Questions regarding developing countries.

To prevent mental illness and promote psychological health, developing countries might learn from demonstrated successes in other countries. This exploratory qualitative project involved interviewing 27 informants knowledgeable about both the United States and selected developing countries of Asia and South America. Informants reviewed five preventive programs shown to be effective in North America and then evaluated the programs as to their applicability in the other country.

Personal views about mental health promotion: An exercise using three letters.

The author explores values and assumptions that underlie primary prevention and health promotion.

Personality and spirituality: comparative TATs of high-achieving Rajneeshees.

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) was administered to followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in their commune in central Oregon. The Rajneeshee subjects had been high achievers (with advanced degrees and/or previous incomes greater than 30,000 dollars in 1984 dollars). Later, TATs were administered to persons matched for gender, age, education, and occupation but not involved in new religions.

Boredom proneness--the development and correlates of a new scale.

This article reports the development, validation, and correlates of a self-report measure of boredom proneness. The 28-item Boredom Proneness (BP) Scale demonstrates satisfactory levels of internal consistency (coefficient alpha = .79) and test-retest reliability (r = .

The use of future studies in training for prevention and promotion in mental health.

To date, people in community development and prevention have made little use of the multidisciplinary field of future studies. This field, although ancient as speculative-literary works, is new as data-based research, such as that provided by projections, simulations, and expert estimates. On the basis of futurists' writings, this paper presents long-range, world-wide influences, such as proliferating technology, rising social expectations, and increasing interdependency, and their relation to prevention.

Decade differences in rural adolescents' views of life possibilities.

In a small-town high school ninth-graders were administered the same research instrument in 1967 and 1979. They listed events they thought would happen to them in the future, occupations, free-time activities, and people known, and answered questions related to perceptions of autonomy and family decision making. Except for the time span of future events, which remained between four and five years ahead, the later group showed many significant increases in cognitive possibilities, especially for occupations and free-time activities.

Recent research trends in testing.

Recent trends in test research as measured by references in Buros' Mental Measurements Yearbooks were investigated. The 24 tests with the greatest number of publications were identified, and growth trends of five major tests (Rorschach, MMPI, TAT, Stanford-Binet, and SVIB) were shown. The correlation between test publications and test usage was .