The contradiction between the family's lowly position in Soviet social science and the great popular and governmental interest in the family is likely to continue to exist for some time to come. (Author)

This paper, presented at the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C., April 1975, investigates the relationship of Horner's (1968) measure of fear of success to the perception of interpersonal relationships in five samples of male and female college students. Results are discussed in terms of sex similarities and differences.…

This descriptive study of the attribution of value in verbalizations of participants in eight group therapy sessions consisted of a series of controversies over whether target persons or people outside the group, whom target persons complained about, should be disparaged. Target persons generally described themselves as not deserving…

A sample of 200 men and women matching the characteristics of the married U.S. population for age, income, education, and race was administered a 101-item questionnaire assessing the full range of their sexual activities with their mates. The test as a whole was found to be statistically sound. (Author)

Males (N=54) and 46 females who scored high or low on a sensation seeking scale were exposed to slides of physically attractive or unattractive person stimuli. High sensation seekers both liked and expected to recognize the physically attractive persons in the future more than the physically unattractive persons. (Author)

The use of sensory awareness training and the place of training were systematically controlled in four fourth-grade classrooms. Analysis of variance produced significant effects of intervention training in both settings. This supports the hypothesis that sensory awareness and personal contact promote lessening of social distance within groups.…

This study reports on four possible feedback sequences to be used in groups. The acceptance and desirability of the feedback, as well as subjects' endorsement of group attractiveness, are compared for various feedback conditions. (Author)

The intent of this paper is to illustrate by example how the concept of group cohesiveness, which has largely been developed and utilized in laboratory experimentation, can serve both a predictory and an explanatory function in field studies. (Author)

The results from this study suggest that leisure activity patterns are differentially related to marital satisfaction, that husbands and wives are not influenced alike by leisure, and that the marital career period is a most critical variable in determining the influence of leisure. (Author)

The findings in this study were generally inconsistent and nonsupportive of a relationship between demographic homogeneity and spousal response consensus within or across the two areas of sex knowledge and family planning attitudes. Consideration of the limitations, implications, and future directions of this research are presented. (Author/PC)

A quantitative approach was used to identify factors relating to emotional adjustment in 84 dying patients. Emotional adjustment was influenced more by the patient's physical condition, by previous experiences with dying persons, and by interpersonal relationships. (Author)

The hypothesis that adolescent psychiatric patients would be deficient with respect to normal controls in their interpersonal problem-solving skills was tested by comparing the patient and control groups on seven tasks ref lecting different aspects of problem solving. (Author)

The type of helper from which help is sought and the causal locus to which the help seeker's problem is attributed have been suggested as factors that affect the way help seekers are perceived. The present study investigated the social rejection of help seekers as a function of these two variables. (Author)

Discusses results of two studies conducted to investigate communications between friends, since it is often stated that psychotherapy is a type of friendship. Findings showed that empathic responses were infrequent between friends trying to be helpful, though such responses constituted a majority of statements of model Rogerian therapists.…

This study tests hypotheses about achievement orientation, particularly vicarious achievement. Undergraduate students (N=437) completed multiple-choice questionnaires, indicating likely responses of one person to the success of another. The sex of succeeder and observer, closeness of relationship, and setting (medical school or graduate school of…