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Summarizes categories, methods of research on adjustment by family members to providing care to Alzheimer's patients. Critically evaluates state of knowledge produced by studies; suggests ways of strengthening future investigations. Organizes review around psychological, social, and health factors as antecedents or correlates of similar categories of outcomes for caregivers. (Author/NB)

Sixty-one Ss were asked to indicate how probable they thought it was that internal conditions in Russia were forcing the Russians to a more aggressive foreign policy and were leading to another world war. Opinions on these issues were obtained using two items imbedded in a 48-item questionnaire. Ss attended two experimental sessions, one week apart Major analyses compared those Ss who responded to the statements prior to the U-2 incident in early May, 1960, to subgroups of Ss who responded to the statements at different intervals after the incident and to the Total After group. The results from the first administration of the questionnaire show a marked tendency for the group of Ss who were asked immediately after the U-2 incident to consider it more probable that internal events in Russia will produce another world war; Ss who were asked the same questions four days to two weeks after the incident thought it less likely that the stated outcomes would occur. A similar but statistically nonsignificant trend was shown by the data from the question on foreign policy. The same pattern of differences and higher levels of significance were found on a second administration of both of the opinion statements. On giving their opinions for a second time, Ss who were responding after the 13-2 affair invariably thought it more probable that internal events in Russia would lead to a more aggressive foreign policy and to another world war, while Ss responding for the: second time before the event showed no such tendency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]