A rejection of the goals and means of the university system tends to come largely from both male and female students who are dissatisfied with their academic performance. Study results suggest that locus of responsibility is important in determining the nature of the responses to unsatisfactory positions or experiences in a social system. Students…

An exploratory investigation of the relative self-esteem of first year students, using a questionnaire which indirectly measured their self-precept. Tables. (RB)

Uses scores on the I (inner support) scale of Personal Orientation Inventory correlated with term grade point average, to clarify relationship between the two and to comment on previous research by Leib and Snyder. Findings support their conclusions of no direct relationship but rather a secondary one through separate relationships with other…

Hypothesized that women who were more profeminist in their attitudes toward women's roles would score significantly higher on a measure of identity achievement than women whose attitudes were more traditional. Measures were administered to a random sample of 300 female college students. Results strongly supported the hypothesis. (Author)

Demonstrates that within a group of highly actualized individuals, the degree to which "own death" is integrated into constructs of self is a far more powerful predictor of fear of death than actualization. Findings suggest that actualization and integration are independent in their overall effect on fear of death. (Author)

Investigated human potential seminar (HPS) outcomes for the four HPS objectives (self-determination, self-affirmation, self-motivation, and regard for others) and its overall purpose, self-actualization. Ego-strength was used as a moderator variable and found to be nonsignificant. Students' status on self-affirmation, self-determination,…

Sixty college students, representing three of Kohlberg's moral judgment stages, were exposed to a compliance situation. Self-awareness was experimentally increased in 30 subjects. Those in moral stages 3 and 4 complied significantly more than stage 5 subjects. Results are discussed in terms of a cognition-behavior relationship. (Author/SJL)

A survey of 510 practitioners engaged in support services to college students with learning disabilities investigated attitudes toward and practice of self-advocacy training and methods to reduce student dependence on programs and increase autonomy. While most expressed strong support for self-advocacy practices, it was found that far fewer use…

Examined the validity of Helms's (1984) model of White racial identity development among 308 White college students testing the assumption that more advanced stages are associated with greater self-actualization. Results indicated that self-actualizing tendencies were negatively related to less developmentally advanced White racial identity…

The findings reported in this article are part of a larger study investigating perfectionism in gifted college students. This qualitative interview study examined differences in the interpretation of successes and failures between gifted college students scoring high on either socially prescribed or self-oriented perfectionism. Findings indicated…

These four papers by a reference librarian discuss the potential for students at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego to engage in a positive academic career that will have a significant impact not only on their growth as people, but also on their future endeavors. The first paper, "Self-Definition: Naming Yourself in a College…