Student affairs professionals in the United States were surveyed to determine the predictive value of overall job satisfaction, organizational support, organizational politics, and work/nonwork interaction on affective organizational commitment. Results indicate that a supportive work environment leads to increased affective attachment to the…

This paper argues that using the notion of ambivalence in understanding ethnic hatred can be helpful to educators who struggle to address the pedagogical implications of students' feelings of hatred. It is suggested that, although hate feelings are difficult to change, unraveling the ambivalence in the affective politics of hatred creates…

Individuals with disabilities encounter practical and social problems beyond those experienced by nondisabled individuals. This extra burden may in turn increase the risk of developing mental health problems. The objective of this article is to disclose the mental health situation among deaf individuals compared to a control sample of hearing…

Psychological Sense of Community (PSOC) theoretically comprises four components (Membership, Influence, Fulfillment of Needs, and Shared Emotional Connection), but existing measures of the components are psychometrically lacking. The current study sought to develop valid and reliable measures of the four theoretical components by building on and…

Event-related potential (ERP) studies have shown that emotional stimuli elicit greater amplitude late positive-polarity potentials (LPPs) than neutral stimuli. This effect has been attributed to arousal, but emotional stimuli are also more semantically coherent than uncategorized neutral stimuli. ERPs were recorded during encoding of positive,…

The measurement of affect to support the achievement or nonachievement of affective education goals is an unresolved problem for educational institutions. The paper outlines a means for both developing an affective goal structure and identifying measurable indicators of affective behavior. To achieve this, it defines and discusses concepts related…

A need for measurement exists not only in academic events but also in the affective domain. The author presents a procedure for quantification of affective behavior. The procedure contains three stages. One is the conceptualization stage in which personal meanings of elements in the affective domain are examined. Another is the crucial…

Thirty junior- and senior-level college students enrolled in a teacher education program at Indiana University were administered the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule prior to the introduction of a newly developed instructional package geared to enhance the leadership behavior of teachers. The subjects participated in an instructional module,…

A review of the work of an affective sub-committee of the Nucleus Testing Committee is provided. Proposed recommendations of the sub-committee are that: (1) the committee as a group identify an important question in the affective domain and design a testing project by which to gather data to answer the question; (2) a set of guidelines for the use…

On multiple measures of chronic, manifest anxiety, the intellectually gifted sample (N=465) consistently displayed lower levels of anxiety than their nongifted peers (N=329), indicating better overall adjustment. (Author)

Significant differences exist between agribusiness workers and agricultural production workers in Missouri in the affective work skills they demonstrate. Significant differences also appear between agricultural supervisors and workers. (SK)

Literature generated by Liebert and Morris's two-component conceptualization of test anxiety, and other related theoretical and research programs are reviewed. Recent advances in assessment are noted and a revised worry-emotionality questionnaire is presented, along with the factor-analytic evidence on which it is based. (Author/GK)

Assessed the relationship between mood and pleasant and unpleasant events. Undergraduates made self-ratings of mood and kept daily logs of pleasant and unpleasant events. Correlations suggested mood was related to pleasant and unpleasant events independently. Intersubject correlations were consistent but insignificant. Cross-lagged correlations…

Prediction of academic performance was investigated among 76 introductory psychology students. Seven noncognitive and four cognitive measures were used. Sex differences emerged, the best predictors being the Basic Word Vocabulary Test (cognitive) and the American Core Values Test (noncognitive) accounting for about 50 percent of the variance. (JC)

Examined the issue of construct validity of several existing measures of affect and their fit with the circumplex model. Analyses demonstrate that data collected using the four scales studied are characterized by generally good concurrent and discriminant validity. Data are in partial agreement with the proposed circumflex model of affect. (SLD)