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Esser, Mary M.; Mueller, Charles W. – 1983
Research on the female offender has produced two explanations of the female criminal personality: the female offender either as a masculinated women or as an anguished woman possessing low self-esteem and poor self-control. To investigate the applicability of each position, 144 black male and female criminals and noncriminals completed the Bem Sex…
Descriptors: Blacks, Crime, Criminals, Females
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Cole, Pamela M. – Child Development, 1986
Spontaneous expressive control of negative emotion was examined in two studies of children three- to nine-years-old using an experimental "disappointing" situation. Study 1 examined facial expressions, verbalizations, and spontaneous references to emotional expression control. Study 2 examined the expressive behavior of 20 preschool…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Facial Expressions
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Abouserie, Reda – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1994
Reports on a study of the sources and levels of stress in relation to locus of control and self-esteem among 675 British university students. Finds differences between male and female students. Maintains that students with high self-esteem are less stressed than those with low. (CFR)
Descriptors: Coping, Females, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Block, Jack; Gjerde, Per F. – 1985
This paper examines the conceptual and empirical relationships differentially associated with antisocial behavior and undercontrol, two concepts that frequently are confused. The personality characteristics conceptually associated with antisocial behavior were specified by seven psychologists using the California Child Q-sort (CCQ) to describe…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Child Rearing, Children
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Flynn, Timothy M. – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Reports a study of 208 migrant children, three to four years of age and mostly Black, assessing school achievement and seven affective characteristics, i.e., delay of gratification, relationship with achievement model, dependency, motor inhibition, self-control, self-concept, and risk-taking. Suggests that findings of sex differences for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Black Youth, Compensatory Education