This study explores a range of issues characterizing prisonization research based on male populations but does so utilizing cross-sectional questionnaire data gathered from 172 female felons and misdemeanants incarcerated in a prison for women in the southeastern United States. The analysis concentrates on three major issues: (1) the relation of…

Examines the vocational aptitude patterns of males and females and Blacks and Whites. Work samples from the Micro-TOWER System of Vocational Evaluation were used to assess verbal, numerical, clerical perception, motor, and spatial aptitudes. Many differences were revealed of which counselors should be aware. (Author)

In a series of exploratory studies to develop instruments for measuring field dependence in young children, 312 Japanese middle class children, ages 5 to 6, served as Ss. (Author)

The article reviews the dominant conceptual schemes used to study occupational choice, considers potentially female-specific variables, and provides a typology for the analysis of women's marital-familial statuses and work modes. (Author)

The objective of this study was to test the cognitive identity of older male and female populations with reference to raw score, component structure, and component score measures of spatial and verbal performance. Women (N=100) and 96 men were administered three verbal and six nonverbal cognitive subtests. (Author)

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI) of 36 patient suicides were compared with two matching control groups. Female suicides differed significantly from all male groups and from both female control groups. These differentiating patterns emerged from a population of voluntary psychiatric patients and would not necessarily be…

Two hundred and seventy analyses were performed on Study of Values and questionnaire data obtained from 195 male and 197 female collegiates reared Catholic or Protestant. (Author)

This study in the area of majority-minority relations shows that negative attitudes toward homosexuals are associated with lack of support for equality between the sexes. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to examine a model for investigating employee mental health in industrial environments and, more particularly, to determine the extent to which a worker's perceptionss of the environment covaried with mental health criteria. (Author)

The study was conducted to determine differences in the authoritarianism dimensions of men and women and between individuals of above average and superior intelligence. The males scored significantly higher on three dimensions. Individuals of above average intelligence scored significantly higher than those of superior intelligence on three…

This study replicated the story completion part of the earlier research on fear of success by Horner, and introduced three variations in the cue used to measure fear of success, which was slightly more characteristic of honor students than others. (EK)

Subjects were 80 undergraduates, randomly assigned to conditions by sex. The design included three variables: sex, placebo, and motivation. The present hypothesis-- that given the level of motivation appropriate for the subject's sex, males and females would not differ in effects of a placebo--found support in the data. (Author)

Subjects were 26 female three-, four- and five-year-old children who free-played four different sets, each containing a culturally-defined feminine, masculine and neutral toy. A same- or opposite-sex adult was either present or absent during play. Results included the following: (1) girls played longer than boys with feminine and neutral toys,…