A behavioral effectiveness criterion was employed to conceptually and operationally define social intelligence. Using Keating's "A Search for Social Intelligence" as a methodological model, the present study examined four measures of academic intelligence and six measures of social intelligence using three different correlational procedures.…

Results indicated that adolescents using positive or neutral voice tones during emotionally laden discussions with their parents tended to show relatively adequate levels of psychosocial adjustment as young adults, while adolescents using exclusively negative voice tones tended to show adjustment difficulties in early adulthood. (Author/SW)

This paper defines sociopathy and presents current findings on its causes and treatment. A milieu therapy program is described, including the preventive and active treatment methods used to keep the adolescent sociopath fully occupied in constructive activities and "sponsor" relationships to overcome antisocial behavior patterns. (Author/SJL)

Parentification has been defined as the familial interactional pattern in which children and adolescents are assigned or assume roles and responsibilities normally the province of adults. Two studies were conducted to examine the role that parentification takes in the context of immigration with regard to its impact on adolescent adaptation. In…

The paper addresses the needs of learning disabled (LD) students making the transition to secondary schools. Ways in which learning disabilities may magnify typical adolescent concerns are noted, such as social difficulties presented by poor perceptual skills and the effects of poor self image. Recent research suggesting successful strategies for…

THREE PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, SKILL-ORIENTED, PLAY- ORIENTED, AND FREE-PLAY ORIENTED WERE DEVELOPED. THESE PROGRAMS WERE EXAMINED, INITIALLY, BY SEVEN EXPERTS AND THEN SUBJECTED TO A PILOT STUDY. THE REVISED PROGRAMS WERE TAUGHT BY RESEARCH ASSISTANTS TO SIX EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS WHICH INCLUDED 82 BOYS AT TWO STATE SCHOOLS FOR THE MENTALLY…

ITEMS ON BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN THE MANTOR LIBRARY AT FARMINGTON STATE COLLEGE INCLUDE 468 REFERENCES TO BOOKS, RESEARCH REPORTS, CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS, CONVENTION REPORTS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES. SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS, DELINQUENCY, SOCIAL MALADJUSTMENT, PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT, AND VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND TRAINING.…

SOCIAL MATURITY IN THE AMERICAN ADOLESCENT IS DEFINED AS THAT PERIOD SOMEWHERE BETWEEN CHILDHOOD AND ADULTHOOD WHEN THE INDIVIDUAL HAS ACHIEVED THE ABILITY TO TOLERATE AND ADJUST TO FRUSTRATION WITHOUT STRESS WHILE ACHIEVING ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE, A TOLERANT OUTLOOK, AND A SATISFACTORY LIFE PHILOSOPHY. THE MEASURES OF SOCIAL MATURITY OF THE…

Compared the psychosocial adjustment and drug use of eighth-grade students beginning middle school in the fifth, sixth, or seventh grade. Students beginning middle school in the fifth and sixth grade had more favorable drug use attitudes, had more drug-using friends, and felt their friends were less opposed to using drugs. (Author/ABB)

Comments on the difficulty of writing novels for adolescents and the writer's efforts to encourage adolescents not to conform, to be responsible for themselves and their friends, and to communicate with adults. (SRT)

The second of two reports on post-special school adjustment of 382 mildly retarded persons, aged 15 to 35 years, in Ireland, gives data on marriage, children, adaptive skills, living arrangements, problem behavior, and social contact. Among the results: sex and socioeconomic class are significantly related to social independence. (Author)

Investigated were measures of impulsivity and the sense of control over one's destiny, and their relationship to personal and social adjustment in mildly or borderline retarded adolescent males. (KW)

The author, based on his discussion, hypothesizes that: (1) the use of marijuana may serve to intensify the tendency toward an adolescent's alienation and (2) attitudinal changes do occur in people who are exposed to the illusionogens and that these changes are more certainly fixed with continued use. (Author/BY)

Describes a research study which involved building a theoretical construct to define the primary dimensions of adolescent alienation, and developing and testing attitude scales to measure alienation in early adolescence. Personal incapacity, guidelessness, and cultural estrangement were found to characterize alienation in this age group.…