Students' attitudes toward women and changes in those attitudes after taking a women's studies course were studied. The Spence Attitude Toward Women Scale was administered to 354 undergraduate students at two midwestern institutions. Results showed attitudes toward women became more liberal after taking a women's studies course. (Author)

Bem's definition of psychological androgyny obscures a potentially important distinction between those individuals who score high on both masculinity and femininity and those individuals who score low on both. To assess the importance of this distinction, the Bem Sex-Role Inventory was administered to undergraduate subjects. (Author)

Positive self-concept correlated with belief in one's internal locus of desired control. Examining only institutionalized subjects, the first study found this relationship to be prominent for male subjects. In the second study, comparing institutionalized and noninstitutionalized elderly, this relationship was again most prominent for…

Pupils from fourth, fifth, and sixth grades (N=198) were studied to determine the relationship between children's self-concept, academic achievement, and teacher's rating of children's self-concept. The differences between grade levels, sex, and ethnic group membership were tested by analysis of variance. Results are discussed. (Author)

Observation of 60 mother-father-third-grade-child triads supplied information as to the interactional context of the children's producing novel solutions to various problems. Unpredicted cross-sex differences appeared. Mothers trying to assist their children had the effect of narrowing the children's freedom to be original. Fathers seemed to be…

Investigated the perception of counselor attractiveness and persuasiveness through the expression of nonverbal behavior. Two male and female counselors were trained to portray "affiliative" manner and "unaffiliative" manner. Subjects saw four different counselors and then rated them on scales measuring perceived attractiveness and persuasiveness.…

Male and female college students responded to stories about married physicians whose total income was greatest, respectively, when (1) the husband cared for the children, (2) the wife cared for the children, (3) either spouse cared for them, (4) the wife earned more than the husband, or (5) the husband earned more. (Author)

Biases which may affect counseling relationship have been found among rehabilitation personnel. The hiring of counselors from various minority groups is recommended as an interim solution. (Author/EK)

A study was conducted of faculty research productivity to examine differences in productivity based on gender and on employment status (tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track). The research productivity of 63 full-time faculty members in the college of education at a public university were assessed, with productivity defined in terms of the…

The performance subscales to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children were administered to 208 black and 208 white female junior high school students. In addition to race and socioeconomic status (above or below the median) of subject, the variables of race and sex of tester, test atmosphere (evaluative or gamelike), and tester expectation…

Parents of all children in a university home economics department preschool (N=18), a university day care center (N=40), and a Montessori Method preschool (N=36) were contacted to determine if they allowed their preschool children differing amounts of freedom to discuss body self-concepts according to sex of the child or type of preschool the…

The decisions and attitudes of sex-stereotyped and androgynous individuals (as defined by the Bem Sex Role Inventory) were compared in a social conformity paradigm. On each of 160 trials subjects predicted one of two possible stimuli after hearing predictions of two other "subjects." No effects of physical sex were observed. On trials when the…

Questionnaires were completed by 131 married couples to determine the role of dispositional jealousy on marital success. The total jealousy in the marriage was found to be negatively related to several indices of marital success. Further analyses indicated that marital outcomes were negatively associated with the husband's perception of the wife's…

Causal attributions were obtained from male and female subjects of two racial groups, black and white, following achievement performance in a "natural" setting. Although women expected lower grades than men, no significant differences in attributional ratings as function of gender were observed, nor were any race by gender interactions seen in the…

In the development of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) the phrase "more desirable in American society" was used in the final item selection. To clarify whether subjects tended to interpret this phrase normatively or prescriptively, a sample of 432 college men and women used the items of the BSRI to describe either a typical (normative),…