Changes in the student subculture are seen as changes from affective predominance to cognitive predominance. The article examines the implications these changes have for counseling and counseling techniques, i.e., that the counselor is a translator of one cultural style to the other, and his tools are different in an affectively based culture from…

Assessed situational variables affecting emotional expressiveness in 331 students. Results indicated that females were more expressive than males and that persons were more expressive of positive emotions than negative, in the initiator role than in the respondent role, and to opposite-sex rather than same-sex best friends. (WAS)

College students learning they had done well or poorly on an examination were asked to evaluate the cause of the outcome, describe affective reactions, and estimate expectations about future test performances. Results support the contention that academic failure needn't lead to losses in achievement motivation, depression, or frustration.…

Effects of systematic desensitization and anxiety management training in reducing test anxiety and generalizing to other anxieties were compared. Both desensitization and anxiety management training produced significant reduction of text anxiety, but by follow-up, anxiety management training produced significantly more test-anxiety reduction on…

Anxious students were randomly assigned to a wait-list control group; to three groups aided by experienced behavior therapists; or to three groups led by paraprofessionals. Results show paraprofessionals can achieve outcome and maintenance effects equivalent to more rigorously trained professionals. Paraprofessionals can conduct desensitization in…

Compared primary induction methods that have cognitive bases by assessing their effectiveness in inducing depression and elation moods, respectively. Results generally confirmed hypotheses that autobiographical recollections was the superior method for inducing and altering depression and anxiety in a population that included both sexes. (Author)

Videotapes of spontaneous facial and gestural reactions to affective slides were segmented by male and female college students using a group adaptation of Newtson's unitization technique. (Author/SS)

Findings indicate that highly flexible self-disclosers evidence a heightened social perceptiveness. They also evidence significantly greater affective empathy and more accurate perceptions of facilitative responding than do less flexible disclosers. (Author)

Motivations underlying maladaptive decisions by college males in the areas of sexual intercourse, contraception, and partner pleasure are examined. (Author/JD)

The cognitive and affective reactions of 25 higher-degree students to a text-reading task under conditions designed to induce thorough understanding were studied. Variation is discussed in terms of response to text genre, type, and style, and implications are drawn for theory and practice in higher education. (SLD)

Feminist recommendations were incorporated in a physical science course to gain new insights into the gender issues in science. Qualitative data from (n=45) elementary education students found themes of efficacy and empowerment but also of dissidence. Contains 74 references. (Author/MKR)

Since its founding in 1875, Brigham Young University (BYU) has served a mission defined by its sponsoring institution which includes elements of character and spirituality (affective domain) in addition to the intellectual (cognitive domain). However, it is only since the establishment of the Office of Institutional Assessment and Analysis…

Increased tobacco consumption, specially among adolescents and females, has been observed recently in Mexico. The goal of this study is to describe tobacco consumption and motives for use among university students. A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed using data provided by 282 students aged 15-24 studying at the University of…

Children of alcoholics are at risk for socioemotional and behavioral problems. Adult children of alcoholic parents (ACAs) are at risk for problems in interpersonal relationships. ACAs have been found to have decreased self-esteem and self-acceptance in comparison to adults whose parents are not alcoholic (NACAs). College students who were young…

The origins of personality traits and emotions have long been a subject of investigation and controversy. Beginning with Freud, an argument has been made from a wide variety of perspectives that early childhood relationships to parents are a primary factor in shaping personality. Within a cognitive paradigm, people's beliefs about themselves and…