Conceptual and empirical evidence generally tends to support the assumption that self-actualization is related to moral maturity, in particular to transitional or post-conventional moral reasoning. Because the evidence is largely correlational, the precise nature of the relationship has yet to be clearly determined. (RM)

Focuses on developing the capacity to differentiate between the inner child of our own past and the child being cared for in the present. Emphasizes the need for adults and children to communicate feelings, meanings, truth, and understanding. Several songs for children are included. (BJD)

The Model for the Conception of Competition is offered as a means of discovering problems and solutions surrounding competition. Distinctions are made between existing definitions, and insight into how competition relates to human life and cosmic interaction is given. Survival, mastery, and transcendence, modes of psychological thought, are…

Directed toward the student, this article explores various paths to career decision making. Indicates that there are many guideposts along the way, and it is up to the individual to use them effectively. (JOW)

Used two subscales of the Jenkins Activity Survey to examine the relationship of self-actualization and self-esteem to Type A behavior in 68 students. Results showed self-actualization and self-esteem were related to only the Involvement subscale. This result is obscured when only total JAS scale scores are used. (JAC)

Summarizes an activity designed to remind counselors of language patterns that enable clients to re-create their conception of reality and claim their inherent personal power. The multiple choice activity presents examples of ways counselors can help clients choose language that expresses personal control. (JAC)

Outlines a method for improving one's rationality that can be understood and carried out by each individual, with a minimum of professional guidance. (Author/IRT)

The role of cognitive functions in three different valuing processes are identified and related to the development of moral autonomy. (GW)

A study-in-progress is examining the multiple and fluid identities in one person's "been-being-becoming-imagining" as a facilitator in transformative drama--for example, as researcher, facilitator, participant, observer, audience. The inquiry is a recursive and spiraling process. The goals and procedure arise through the research…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether identification with members in group therapy has a relation to progress in therapy. Results indicated that the incidence of identification was significantly higher for group members who showed positive change in therapy (p less than .05) than for members who did not show a positive change.…

Young workers, persons from sixteen to thirty years old, have problems relating to occupational choice, vocational guidance, vocational training and other educational opportunities, job satisfaction, and housing, complicating their search for an occupational and social identity. (AG)

This introduction to the cognitive-developmental view of growth and development asks: (1) What is development?; (2) What are the necessary conditions for development?; (3) How can development be generally assessed?; and (4) What are the various parallel forms of development? (RP)

The purpose of the present study was to determine if there were initial differences on selected scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) between students who chose to live in coed residence halls and those who chose to live in traditional single-sex residence halls, and also if residing in coed living units affected the further…