A study of 30 sign language interpreters (N=30) attempted to isolate cognitive, perceptual, psychomotor, and affective factors predictive of effective interpretive skills. Analysis revealed that family background (hearing or deaf family members) significantly affected certain personality traits and interpretive skills. (Author/CB)

Stress levels and work satisfaction in 73 Norwegian comprehensive school teachers were investigated by structured interviews. Stress and satisfaction were primarily attributed to social interaction at work but also to control over the work process, adequacy of job demands, and perception of meaning and pride from work. (Author/BS)

Fifth and sixth graders performed at a high or low level on a novel achievement task within a competitive or individual goal structure. The type and frequency of children's thoughts were assessed. Children made more ability attributions in the competitive condition and more effort attributions in the individual condition. (Author/BS)

Discusses the development of a measure for enabling counselors and educators to identify and help women experiencing inhibiting or depressing levels of conflict. Describes a study using discriminant analysis to compare the relative importance of activity, affect, and event variables for women majoring in traditional careers and those majoring in…

Concurrent validity studies are reported for the School Attitude Measures (SAM), a recently developed school affective assessment procedure. The studies were conducted at three grade levels (5th, 8th, 11th) with a total sample of 153 subjects. Results indicated that the SAM shows promising concurrent validity related to the criterion measures…

Discusses the design considerations, research methodology, nature of the samples, and details of the statistical analysis in a study of the effect of classroom environment on learning among junior high school students. Results indicate that achievement is greater in classroom environments which are similar to the student's preferred environment.…

The pros and cons of whether physical educators should attempt to evaluate the affective domain of physical education is debated in five articles. Uses and abuses of the affective domain are discussed, and the question of whether affective evaluation is actually possible is debated. (JN)

Students in the vocational program and those in a regular seventh grade scored higher on Anxiety, Depression, and Hostility. These differences persisted across time, except Depression, for which there was a significant interaction between time and school program with regular students reporting increased depression at the second testing. (Author)

The Estes Reading Attitude Scale evidences good internal consistency and solid convergent validity. It is a useful global reactive assessment of school-oriented attitude toward reading in intermediate grades. (Author/SB)

Investigates the order in which dispositional and situational information is considered. Results indicate that perceivers are flexible in their inference processes: they are able to draw either dispositional or situational inferences initially. Greater understanding of the mechanisms and determinants of social judgments has important implications…

Female counselor trainees (N=28) in a facilitative skills development course were rated for empathy on the basis of written responses to two videotaped vignettes--one Kohlbergian moral dilemma and one morally neutral dilemma. Found students responded more empathically to morally neutral task than to Kohlbergian task. (Author/TE)

Responds to two opening articles by Parham ("Cycles of Psychological Nigrescence") and Helms ("Considering Some Methodological Issues in Racial Identity Counseling Research"). Provides suggestions for expanding and testing models of racial identity development, and calls for expanded methods of measuring racial identity, and…

Presents a model for literary response that discriminates the spheres of authority of both teacher and student. Identifies five aspects of response: learning skills, literary competence, cognitive processes, emotional processes, and self-concept involvement. Suggests that the influence of the teacher should extend only to the first three. (KEH)

Compares self-report measures of depression and psychological distress in U.S. and Japanese university students. Reassesses sex differences on these measures for U.S. students and examines sex differences for Japanese students. Finds that Japanese students had higher scores on depression measures but not on psychological distress. (Author/ LS)

Results of a study of 298 students (grades 3, 5, and 7) enrolled in Catholic and public schools suggest that school-related curiosity decreases as a function of grade level in both school settings. The grade level effect appeared stronger in the Catholic school. No significant gender effect was noted. (IAH)