Findings of a study on the design, execution, and evaluation of a recruitment and public education program in rehabilitation counseling are presented. (Author)

It is suggested that achievement of major aesthetic education goals can be directly facilitated by engaging students in historical activities. Examinations of the concepts of self-consciousness, judgment, imagination, particularity, and change are presented, demonstrating the similarities between aesthetic education processes and historical…

Examined the impact of choice on college students' cognitive task performance and affective engagement. Data from two studies supported the enhanced affective engagement hypothesis, which states that even short-term choice can increase positive affective response. Choice had no positive effect on cognitive engagement but a positive effect on…

Data on problem solving collected within the framework of G. Eckblad's cognitive theory of affect (1981) are analyzed with 3-mode principal component analysis. Eight tasks with 6 judgment scales were completed by 32 13-year-old boys. The effectiveness of the TUCKALS principal components analysis method is discussed. (SLD)

Asserts that composition studies should include the study of emotion. Focuses on the piece of social psychology from which "attitude" emerges as a core concept and came to share with "emotion" a common phenomenological base. Discusses the rise of social psychology and the construct of attitude, cognitive studies and social…

A model is presented that describes four types of emotion-activating systems, three of which involve noncognitive information processing. The four systems are neural, sensorimotor, motivational, and cognitive. They may be seen as a loosely organized hierarchical arrangement, operating under a number of constraints. (SLD)

The human brain is triune--controlling physical activity, emotion, and cognition. Strategies for dealing with the affective element, such as creating self-awareness, positive self-concept, trust, and acceptance, are important influences upon learning. (SK)

This survey of cooperative extension educators focused on the relationship between viewer interaction and acceptance of programs delivered via satellite. Discusses program effectiveness, relations between the extent of audience interaction and levels of acceptance (cognitive, affective, and behavioral) of programs, and the need to place greater…

Surveys older adults (N=242) to determine the relationship between self esteem and identity processing styles of identity assimilation, accommodation, and a balance between consistency seeking and identity change. Identity assimilation and balance predicted increases in self esteem; identity accommodation predicted decreases. No interaction…

This article presents a brief overview of existing research on the effects of exposure to violent video games. An updated meta-analysis reveals that exposure to violent video games is significantly linked to increases in aggressive behaviour, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, and cardiovascular arousal, and to decreases in helping…

This exploratory research analyzes child care workers' beliefs about the nature of their practice in center-based child care programs. Twenty-one female child care workers who worked with toddlers (aged 1 to 3 years) participated in the research. The participants were videoed in their practice and later interviewed about how good practice in child…

Background: Two goal perspectives predominate in achievement settings such as physical education (PE), namely task involvement, focused on self-referenced effort and improvement, and ego involvement, focused on normative ability comparisons. A task (mastery) involving motivational climate is associated with adaptive motivational responses, whereas…

Subjects (N=60) read elation, depression and neutral self-referent mood statements and then answered a number of questionnaires with cognitive and affective content. Subjects in the elated mood group performed better on cognitive tasks than the depressed mood subjects plus they reported less depression than the latter. (SE)

This study of athletes seeks to determine that a relationship exists between the mind and the body. It presents negative psychological factors that may arise and shows possible ways to enhance athletic performance through psychological techniques. The central part of the study is an annotated bibliography covering selected literature on these…

This study of the reading process was written by a librarian for other librarians in order to explore what happens as the end result of the librarian's job, the meeting of a person and a book. A model of the reading act is constructed which makes the reader the subject rather than the receiver, as in the communications model of "transmitter…