It has been the impression of the authors that a significant minority of MMPI profiles produced by adolescents suggest schizophrenia when such a process is not evident clinically. The present study was conducted in order to measure and better understand the frequency of false positive adolescent MMPI profiles. (Author)

Article attempted to better understand the unwed mother for the post-decision time when she might face a number of adjustment problems. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to analyze the needs of disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students in the sixth grade, ninth grade, and twelfth grade in selected public schools in Mississippi. (Auth)

Investigates how pregnant adolescents think and feel about themselves, in what respects their self perceptions differ from non-pregnant teenagers, and how the two groups differ demographically. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this investigation was to test the Eriksonian epigentic concept that older adolescents will have a greater degree of ego identity than will younger adolescents. (Author)

Article investigated the possible effects of drug abuse upon the central nervous system by comparing the incidence of EEG abnormality in drug abusers and non-users. (Author/RK)

The hypothesis of the present study is that identity status, as defined by James Marcia, will relate to other characteristic differences between young adults, specifically, to the pattern of their daily lives and to their responses on the Rorschach. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of various attributes of the family in the structure and process of social influence during adolescence. (Author)

In an effort to study the meanings of individual item-endorsement strengths, as well as their interpretations, the present investigation compared parent and adolescent factor structures, each independently derived from a 36-item survey of attitudes on contemporary issues. (Author/RK)

This study aims to measure the relative prominence of six scale values: Theoretical, Economic, Aesthetic, Social, Political, and Religious. The basic objective is a comparison between the local high school scores and the general norms of a national high school sample across the six values. (Author)

The hypothesis evaluated was that training in goal-setting would compensate for fear-of-success behavior exhibited by many girls. (Author/RK)

Article accentuated the need for improved sex education as a prerequisite for reducing teenage pregnancies. (Author/RK)

This study provided a preliminary examination of the impact of the college experience on political attitudes during the final years of adolescence. (Author/RK)

This research is an attempt at initial construction and utilization of a measurement scale designed to facilitate future empirical research in differentiating values of an established versus an emerging nature, one with a patristic orientation versus one with a matristic orientation. (Author/RK)

Resource theory predicts a negative change in perception of parents by youth as they advance through high school. This theory was tested as 1820 inner city youth answered 54 items comprising four factors: Parental Permissiveness, Seeking Parental Advice, Family Estrangement and Family Disagreement. (Editor/RK)