Investigated relationship between identity status and structural features of individual's personal construct system. Elicited personal constructs relevant to 10 contemporaneous roles from 75 college students who also completed identity-status measure. Correlational analyses between identity-status scores and structural features of the self-system…

Two studies conducted around 1950 provided data on college students' attribution of characteristics to men or women (sex-role sterotypes). Replications of these studies were conducted during the 1970 school year to assess changes in sex-role sterotypes. Results indicated either no change or more polarized sterotypes. (Author/BB)

This descriptive study proposed that students in a living-learning community would be more liberal in their attitudes, less tradiaionally oriented and more frequently hippie and activist in philosophy than a control group from the larger university. Females were anticipated to be more traditional than males. One hundred males and females from a…

This study a) determined college students' perceptions of selected women's roles and female sport involvement and b) ascertained the association of selected sociocultural characteristics with perceptions of women's roles and female sport involvement. Two hundred seventy-nine undergraduates at the University of Massachusetts completed a test…

Two studies were conducted that explored observers' perceptions of responsibility of a victim for her involvement in a premeditated crime. Male and female college students listened to tapes of a purported victim describing a crime (either a rape or a mugging). There was general tendency toward a sympathetic reaction pattern. (Author)

Male and female blacks and whites responded to two sex role inventories. Black women have more traditional sex role attitudes in the home environment than white women but the same sex role attitudes about working. Black and white women are more liberal in their sex role attitudes than men. (Author)

A field experiment in peer tutoring was conducted with college students to test a theoretical model that attached greater desirability to be the tutor than the tutee and to be in an equitable (status congruent) rather than inequitable relationship. Results supported the model. (Author/JKS)

The results of the tests of the major hypotheses, that there would be positive interrelationships among programmed case accuracy, A''ness on the A-B scale, and the measures of role taking accuracy, indicate that the correlations were in the predicted direction though modest in magnitude. (Author)

Assessed perceptions of male and female roles held by undergraduate social work students. Perception of the Ideal Woman as wife and mother was compared with extrafamily values, i.e., perception of the Ideal Woman as career oriented. Students had perceptions of women's and men's roles that basically were not stereotypical. (Author)

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the level of observed performance on the feedback strategy selected by a performance evaluator. One hundred and twenty-three actual performance evaluators from 15 different organizations and 123 college students reviewed, in groups which ranged from 2 to 20, a job description for…

The traditional female stereotype described norms for women in that the characteristics were deemed to be "appropriate" for all women. Recent research described three role-based subcategories of women (housewife, professional woman, sex object) which are based on the female homemaking, work, or romantic roles respectively. The subcategories…

College freshmen in 1968 tended to show higher Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) clinical scale scores than freshmen in 1958. Role confusion and premature identity foreclosure of college students was considered. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of this study was to identify the perceived roles of undergraduate hall counselors or student assistants. Four roles were defined: administrator, advisor, counselor, and disciplinarian. Fifteen items were generated for each role, resulting in a 60-item instrument, which was distributed to 700 students residing in two dormitories at…

Strong, Hendel and Bratton (1971) found that counselors, in relation to psychiatrists, were perceived by students as warm, friendly, and polite people to talk with, although not very bright or knowledgeable. The design of the present study is based on the assumption that the title, "counselor," is too generic. The study compares perceptions held…

The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the effect of the experimenter and the type of rating scales on indices of cognitive complexity and extremity of ratings. Starting from the notion of implicit theory of personality and Kelly's personal construct theory, it has been assumed that a person's individual constructs would be more…