A suicide potential scale is constructed that fits the Guttman scale criteria. The mean suicide potential scores of various age groups support the cohort model with the exception of individuals 75 and older, where it appears that maturation factors play an important role in explaining suicidal behavior. (Author)

Encoding voice information is a cognitively effortful, age sensitive process. For older adults, enhanced voice encoding under the intentional condition, relative to the incidental condition, was accompanied by a significant decrement in sentence recall. The age difference apparently reflects the diminished processing capacity of older adults.…

For all occupations except clergyman, a relationship between the age of the respondent and preferred age of the professional existed. Older individuals preferred older service providers with one exception, their physician. Highly educated respondents preferred younger physicians. (Author)

A Scale of Children's Attitudes toward Exceptionalities was developed to assess nonhandicapped elementary school students' attitudes about handicapped children. (Author)

Discusses the theoretical proposition that adolescent-young adults and the retired-aging bear a symmetrical relationship in terms of psycho-social propensities and "social location." Respondents from two age groups reflected personal views of goals, values, and satisfaction and stresses of life as they experienced it. (Author)

A comparison was made between older youth and a sample of retired elderly relative to response confidence in a multiple-choice task situation. Analysis indicated that both age groups utilized feedback effectively over the two retention conditions and that both groups expressed similar levels of confidence for the specific task. (Author)

A visual search task for target letters in multiletter displays was used to investigate information- processing differences between college students and presecond-grade children. (Author/DB)

Describes the development and validation of a new, short measure of social interest and examines its relations to a variety of measures of adjustment and psychological well-being. Also summarizes the meaning of Adler's concept of social interest and his theorizing concerning its influence on adjustment. (Author/SS)

From preschool to nine years of age, boys show a developmental change from selective competitiveness to a general tendency to compete, while girls consistently vary their game behavior according to situational cues such as those provided by instructions or the sex of a game partner. (Author/MC)

Longitudinal data from a national sample of students ages 9, 13, and 17 are used to study the levels of political knowledge and participation among American youth. Changes in these levels from 1969 to 1975 are examined. (Author/MC) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Change) (Interpretation).

Some of the features of social play in mixed-aged dyads composed of three- and five-year-old children are explored. Suggestions for further study of social interaction among children are discussed. (Author/MC)

Evidence is presented for (1) operationally distinguishing between divergent thinking (DT) and IQ, and between verbal DT and non-verbal DT, among subjects representing the full normal ability range, and (2) decrease of DT/IQ correlations with increasing age and among elementary and secondary school girls. (Author)

Data on the systematic decline in IQs and Social Quotients in 217 Down's syndrome children (3 months to 15 years old) from infancy to adolescence are presented along with an analysis of the distribution of IQs within different age ranges. (Author/CL)

Results showed a significant relation between age and role taking, and between type of response required and role taking. However, emphasizing the difference in perspectives between self and other was not shown to facilitate role-taking performance. (JMB)

The process by which 55 preschool children acquire the meanings of dimensional and expressive terms was investigated in relation to Eve Clark's semantic feature hypothesis. (Author/MP)