Forty-three female college students responded to a l5-statement questionnaire dealing with five areas of role conflict: (1) time management; (2) relations with spouse or boyfriend; (3) expectations for self; (4) expectations of others; and (5) guilt. The problem statements used in the questionnaire were derived from previous research that found…

A study of organizational communication identified two structure roles--liaison and nonliaison--in each of three content-functional areas of organization communication--getting a job done, exploring new behavioral alternatives, and keeping the system functioning--and hypothesized that "liaisons" would perceive themselves in similar ways. Each…

Dominance and sociability scores on the Interpersonal Check List were obtained for medical and nursing students. Results indicate a discrepancy between concepts of self and ideal self, as well as considerable disagreement between medical and nursing students about their roles on the physician-nurse team. (EVH)

"Exploring Female Images Through Movement," a course at Skidmore College, features activities that help students reexamine their attitudes toward their bodies, improve their self-image, and, through a combination of physical education and women's studies, experiment with new activities and ideas about themselves as women. (MB)

We cannot accurately speak of women and men in general. Each one of us is a human being before being 'man' or 'woman.' And each one of us, man or woman, has roles and functions to fulfill, individually, inter-individually and socially. Here is where the differences begin. These are most emphatically not differences in value, only differences in…

Administered questionnaire to 480 Israeli adolescents. Found that adolescents who had steady dates were perceived by peers as possessing higher self-esteem, self-perception of higher self-esteem, higher correspondence to their gender's identity, and self-perception of higher correspondence to their gender's identity. Results suggest positive link…

Describes home, farm, and wage-earning roles of a sample of 25 Appalachian farm women who appear to be successfully managing roles and contributing to families. Role descriptions include measures of attitudes toward married women and work, self concept, and family decision-making structures. Implications are discussed in relation to educational…

Reports on a study of the role orientation of North Carolina community college faculty, which investigated the relationship between professional-discipline and careerist orientations, and the reference groups used by faculty to evaluate their performance. Reveals a conflict between professional and careerist orientations ands claims that…

Presents a perspective on some of the various roles assumed by white faculty on the black college campus, arguing that in order to determine what role the white faculty member should play on the black college campus, the disparity in perceptions which exists between the black college and the white faculty member as to how this role should be…

Investigates the possibility that some schizophrenic behavior results from conformity to a mental patient role. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this article is to offer a sketch of what is intended to become a full feature portrait of "basic group identity." This is the identity derived from belonging to what is generally and loosely called an "ethnic group." (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that attitudes toward others, as well as attitudes of others, may play a role in self-image development. Data analysis from a cross-sectional sampling clarifies and measures self esteem, perceived self, and interpersonal valuation. (Author/KM)

Results obtained on the Semantic Differential seem to suggest that the Negro preadolescent delinquent identity is an aspect of self perception, shaped by opportunities within the society, and the perception of the adult sex role. For the similar group of white delinquents, the criminal role remains ego-alien, that is at conflict with the concept…

The results demonstrated that self concept was significently associated with vocational maturity and indicated self-concept and feminine role concept of own self are useful in predicting vocational maturity. The more the girl viewed her role as being liberal, the higher was her level of vocational maturity. (Author)

Mutual and self perceptions of racial images of white, black, and Japanese Americans are studies among adult, college student, and school child age groups in California. The major hypothesis of this paper is that the amount of minority absorption of negative images is considerably less than twenty years ago. (Author/JB)