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Hartman, Jeanette Allison – 1989
This case study describes the separation distress experienced by Mei Mei, a 2-year-old Chinese-American female toddler at a midwestern university laboratory preschool. The toddler, who could not speak English, was undergoing the first substantial separation from her parents. The toddler was observed over a 9-week period, during which behaviors…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Case Studies, Chinese Americans, Emotional Response
Rich, Dorothy – 1994
These brochures provide simple, specific activities parents can use during the summer to enhance their children's academic and social skills. The brochure for grades K-3 provides activities in the areas of reading, writing, math, and science. The brochure for grades 4-5 provides activities in the areas of reading, writing, math, and social…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Response, Health Activities, Learning Activities
Charleston Gazette, 1989
In the 1980s West Virginia lost 70,000 mining and manufacturing jobs and nearly 4% of its population. Yet, despite the economic decline and a poverty rate of 23%, most West Virginians choose to stay. This series of newspaper articles focuses on why they stay. The story of one laid-off coal miner and his family illustrates the plight of many. Since…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Economic Change, Economically Disadvantaged, Editorials
Smith, Allen C., III; Stritter, Frank T. – 1987
The medical student's emotions during direct clinical contact with the human body were studied, with emphasis on strategies the student uses to manage feelings when they are "inappropriate" or uncomfortable. Observations and interviews were completed over a 2-year period (1984-1986). Observations were made in the gross anatomy laboratory, physical…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anatomy, Behavioral Objectives, Clinical Diagnosis
Kent, Sally, Ed.; And Others – 1983
Earlier versions of the four papers presented in this collection formed a symposium, "Children's Interactions with Television," at the 1982 International Congress of Applied Psychology in Edinburgh. In the first paper, "Children's Comprehension of Television Programs," Peter Rendell and Mary Nixon describe a study which…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Comprehension, Editing, Emotional Response
Yahnke, Robert E. – 1985
Designed as a comprehensive resource guide for educators, health-care professionals, and media librarians, this document contains information on 45 aging-related films which are humanistic in nature, i.e., films which recreate an individual's experience at a specific time and in a particular setting. The text is divided into five chapters, each…
Descriptors: Adults, Aging (Individuals), Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Peterson, Rolf A. – 1982
This paper briefly reviews the two assumptions involved in the use of a stress management approach with parents of the developmentally disabled, i.e., that many parents are subject to high stress and that stress interferes with the person's functioning. A discussion of possible stressors and possible effects of stress are outlined, e.g., health…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Counseling Techniques, Developmental Disabilities, Emotional Response
Stapleton, Constance; MacCormack, Norma – 1981
This pamphlet, part of a series designed to help parents care for themselves and their children while promoting good mental health, deals with ways in which children are affected by divorce and how they learn to cope with the subsequent separation and changes. Advice for preparing children for the separation and divorce includes suggestions on how…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Attitudes, Coping, Divorce
Shands, Virginia P.; Bradley, Doris P. – 1985
A study was conducted to assess the skill of students in identifying meanings of facial expressions in photographs used in the Facial Meaning Sensitivity Test (FMST). Subjects were 55 speech pathology students, 39 nursing students, and 36 speech communication students. The first part of the three part test asked subjects to match 10 photographs…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Body Language, College Students, Communication Research
Agency for Instructional Television, Bloomington, IN. – 1980
This report describes the formative evaluation of the first three rough-cut instructional television programs for "On the Level," a series of 12 lessons dealing with personal and social growth for secondary school students. Results discussed are based on viewing three programs in a total of 36 classrooms at sites in Maryland, Tennessee,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Educational Television, Emotional Response
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McCully, Alan; Pilgrim, Nigel – Teaching History, 2004
Helping students to understand how and why people in the present interpret the past differently is a challenge. It is also vital if we are to develop an understanding of why the meanings we ascribe to the past are not fixed, but rather are subject to our own prejudices or goals. A number of articles in previous editions have explored how students…
Descriptors: Historical Interpretation, Intellectual History, Fiction, Didacticism
Weiner, Bernard – 1981
A set of prevalent emotions, including pity, anger, guilt, pride (self-esteem), gratitude, and resignation, shares a common characteristic, i.e., causal attributions appear to be sufficient antecedents for their elicitation. Research in the field of emotions has shown that the underlying properties or dimensions of attributions are the significant…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response
Felleman, Elyse Schwartz; And Others – 1981
Although the recognition of the affective experiences of peers is an important prerequisite for social adaptation, children's ability to recognize peers' facial displays of emotion remains unexamined. To investigate the degree to which young children were able to enact expressions of emotion that were recognizable by peers and adults, and to…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Emotional Response
Schwab, Richard L.; Iwanicki, Edward F. – 1981
This study of 469 elementary and secondary classroom teachers examined the relationships among role conflict, role ambiguity, and teacher burnout. Three phases of burnout were examined: feelings of emotional exhaustion, negative attitudes toward students, and feelings of lack of accomplishment. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Response, Negative Attitudes, Psychological Needs
Frey, Lawrence Rand – 1978
Recent studies have investigated the transition of relationships from a more intimate to a less intimate state--the depenetration process. Various phases of interpersonal conflict in the dissolution of marital dyads have been described, and factors indicating that a marriage might be "in trouble" have been identified. Processes that are…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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