This investigation was designed to ascertain the relationship between alienation and specified forms of drug use in three differing collegiate settings. The results indicated that, contrary to many subjective judgements, there was essentially no significant relationship between students' degree of alienation and their use of drugs. (Author)

The generalizability of Holland's characterizations of adults within the occupational categories was investigated in a group of 402 Mexican-Americans. The personality characteristics of the male groups provide strong support for the generalizability of Holland's characterizations to Mexican-American males. (Author)

One hundred fifteen depressed inpatients with a history of attempted suicide were matched by age and sex with 115 nonsuicidal depressed patients and 285 normal subjects. The results indicated that the early separation of parent from child does not, in itself, predispose the child to attempted suicide. (Author)

Two communication training programs--the Communication Skills Workshop (CSW) and the Couples Communication Program (CCP)--and a wait-list control group were compared on measures of communication effectiveness, problem solving and relationship satisfaction. Subjects were 54 volunteer couples randomly assigned to conditions. Highly distressed…

The process of assertive behavior change of college women who received assertion training (AT) and cognitive restructuring was examined to assess the relative effects of different durations of exposure to cognitive restructuring. Undergraduate and graduate women students (N=27) at a state university volunteered and were screened for AT groups.…

THE CO-RELATED OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE--(1) TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE A MODEL OF EGO COUNSELING DERIVED, IN PART, FROM THE PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF ADAPTIVE FUNCTIONING, AND (2) TO INVESTIGATE CERTAIN PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS UNDERLYING ACADEMIC UNDERACHIEVEMENT. A COUNSELED EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLE OF 53 BRIGHT, BUT ACADEMICALLY…

A COMPARISON WAS MADE BETWEEN 29 NURSERY SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO RECEIVED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE AND 20 MALADJUSTED CHILDREN WHO DID NOT. EACH CHILD WHO RECEIVED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE AT SOME POINT DURING HIS SCHOOL CAREER WAS EVALUATED FOR ADJUSTMENT DURING FIVE SEGMENTS OF HIS SCHOOL CAREER. DATA FROM MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS FOR BOTH GROUPS WERE THEN…

A modified version of Super's Work Values Inventory (WVI) was administered to third and fifth grade students in a medium-size industrial community. The original WVI was administered to 9th and 11th grade students in the same community. Internal consistency coefficients, construct validity and ordering of work values are reported by grade and sex.…

In the current controversy over accountability in education, educators concerned with the affective aspects of education seem to be in danger of losing the battle of "behavioral objectives" on two fronts: (1) demonstrating that the affective behavior of the teacher does make a difference in educational outcomes, and (2) demonstrating how affective…

The purpose of this study was to provide information regarding the reliability and validity of two simulated behavioral (communication) tasks specifically designed for counseling students. Two structured tasks were constructed, each representing typical problems and issues with which counselors are confronted. The experimental group consisted of…

This study compared the effectiveness of a training procedure involving groups of elementary school students to an individualized training procedure, both of which utilized the Raven Learning Potential (LP) measure to assess improved performance. The development of a group training procedure using the Raven Progressive Matrices aimed at an…

To assess beliefs related to materialistic values, a 45-item pair comparison questionnaire was administered individually to 120 middle and working class children in kindergarten, third and sixth grades. Item analysis revealed responses of older children were influenced by specific objects mentioned. In contrast, younger children responded more…

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory admission and remission profiles were compared in a group of 34 patients hospitalized for depression. Relatively normal profiles for the bipolar group and abnormal profiles for the unipolar group significantly differentiated the two groups at admission, but, with one exception, the differences dissipated…

A comparative evaluation was made between behavioral replication and sensitivity training with regard to treatment efficiency for heterosexual dating anxiety. No significant differences were found between the two programs on measures of social anxiety. The behavioral program demonstrated significant treatment efficiency on more specific measures…

The WISC and WISC-R were administered to 20 Black psychiatric outpatients, ages 8 to 15. Scores revealed the two tests to be essentially different, with lower Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQs on the WISC-R. Order of administration, sex, and interest correlations were also examined. (Author/SJL)