Although no specific personality disorder seems responsible for suicide behavior, it has been suggested that hysterical personality could predispose to suicide behavior. Schizoid, anti-social and obsessoid rigid personalities have been linked to high risk suicide attempts. This study elicited response patterns and attitudes of South African…

Development of the College Descriptive Index (CDI; Form C) is reported. The CDI is an adjective check list that measures eight dimensions of students' satisfaction with college. The instrument was completed by 601 students at four colleges providing information on satisfaction in each of the eight areas. Scoring procedures and a copy of the…

Investigations into job preference have as their underlying premise the belief that congruity between individual and institutional values leads to career choice/job satisfaction. In an attempt to replicate a recent study (Blumenfeld, 1982) on the job preferences of a group of potential psychologists, 66 graduate psychology students at a large…

Comparison processes play an important role in any kind of judgment, including judgments about one's well-being. To find out how information about one's own life influences judgments of well-being, two experiments were conducted with a sample of 52 students. It was hypothesized that spatial, temporal, and social distance would influence judgments.…

This study sought to explore reasons why girls tend to be less satisfied with their gender-prescribed roles than are boys. Three groups of female tertiary students with a mean age of 20 (146 upper middle-class Anglo-Australians, 71 working-class Anglo-Australians, and 89 working-class Italian-Australians) were compared in a study of the influence…

Although evaluation is a necessary prerequisite to the continued development of university counseling centers, a standardized measure is seldom used as an evaluation tool. The Counseling Services Assessment Blank (CSAB), a questionnaire that solicits a respondent's satisfaction with counseling services received in relationship to the type of…

According to Wales and Stager, Guided Design is an instructional strategy built on an eclectic integration of psychological principles and viewpoints, wbich incorporates the learning principles of practice, modeling, organizations, and reinforcements; capitalizes on the motivational principles of affiliation, achievement and self-actualization;…

The protection of the student and prospective student at the postsecondary level is examined. Twenty-five possible educational abuses and concerns, such as discriminatory refund policies and misrepresentation, identified by the Federal Interagency on Education are listed. Ten issues selected as the thrust of the first National Conference on…

A study compared the perceptions of the social environment of satisfied women engineering students against disatisfied students and ex-students at twelve engineering schools with varying percentages of female students. The results found no direct effects of the perceived or actual porportion of female enrollment on satisfaction with engineering.…

Further research on the College Student Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSSQ) is reported herein (see TM 000 049). Item responses of two groups of university students were separately analyzed by three different factor analytic methods. Three factors consistently appeared across groups and methods: Compensation, Social Life, and Working Conditions. Two…

The purposes of this paper are threefold: first, to critically examine student ratings of college instructors' teaching effectiveness; second, to advance a number of pertinent criticisms of student and peer ratings; third, to discuss several possible alternative solutions to the problems delineated, with their advantages and disadvantages. (Author)

Investigated career exploration in two studies using longitudinal design. Work-role salience was significantly related to beliefs in the instrumentality of exploration and the importance of obtaining one's preferred position. Exploration instrumentalities and the importance of obtaining one's preferred position were significantly related to…

Recent data in a longitudinal study are examined for insights into the retention patterns of institutions, characteristics of students who persist or drop out, and student satisfaction with the college experience. (MSE)

A study is reported of how students in an honors program and a transition program for academically disadvantaged students, as well as students in the regular curriculum, become engaged in a variety of experiences and how their quality of effort in the activities is related to student growth and development. (Author/MLW)

Levels of satisfaction with program and services were assessed for students in the School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University, Florida. Usable responses were received from 391 students (193 on-campus, 195 off-campus, and 3 others) from the population of 2,184 students. Survey statements were worded using language from…