Attitudes towards family life education among 15 to 21 year old males participating in organised educational programmes in Golden Grove, St. Thomas

The data from the study supports the need for an integrated programme of Family Life Education involving the home, the school and the community at large. The desire for a stable family life among young men in Golden Grove seems to be evident (AU)

Preference for delayed reinforcement and social responsibility

This experiment, using Trinidadian subjects aged 12 to 14 explored the relationship between preference for immediate, smaller reinforcement as opposed to delayed, larger reinforcement and, (b) delinquent behaviour and (c) accuracy in time statements. The primary results were (a) differences, as predicted, between delinquent and nondelinquent subjects, the former showing greater preference for immediate, smaller reinforcement, (b) a tendency for subjects who preferred immediate, smaller reinforcement to show lower social responsibility scores, although in one of the two groups used this difference was significant only when restricted to subjects who showed consistent reinforcement patterns on three measures. Data relating delayed reinforcement preference patterns to accuracy in time statements were also presented. The overall findings suggest that quite simple and direct measures of reinforcement preference, in which smaller but immediately available rewards are pitted against larger but delayed rewards, may be effectively used to test often discussed but rarely tested relationships between maturity, adjustment, psychopathy, etc. and particular patterns of reinforcement preference with respect to delay in choice situations (Summary)