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As a preliminary part of research to develop a scale of farm stress, interviews were conducted and information collected from 140 Manitoba farmers. The results suggest that farmers are experiencing chronically high stress intensified by perceptions of lack of control over the major stressors of government policy, weather, and market conditions. Evidence for numerous stress symptoms was noted. A consistent difference in types of stressors identified by farm men and women was observed, and the implications of these findings for stress-management programs with farm families ate discussed.

240 university students rated the concept working mothers with pre-school children on a series of 42 bipolar adjectives. Factor analysis of the ratings suggested that the concept was judged along three orthogonal dimensions, social acceptability, liberated-assertive and tense-ambitious. The first factor may reflect attitudes relating to effects on children while the last two factors appear to reflect beliefs about personality and emotional traits associated with working mothers. Polarity analysis indicated that the concept was seen as socially acceptable, liberated, and tense. No significant differences were observed between males' and females' evaluations.