This comparative research examined the effects of student involvement and college environment on students' learning and living experience delivered by two aspiring world-class universities in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Few studies have shown how the levels of student involvement and college environment can benefit students at world-class institution.…

Recent attempts to empirically validate psychoanalytic theory and its contemporary object relational constructs have turned to measuring the concepts with a variety of recently developed assessment scales. This paper reviews the 27 research studies which utilize instruments designed to assess object relations phenomena in subjects diagnosed with…

This document presents a review of the literature on the social interaction of sojourning college students with host nationals and with conationals (fellow sojourners from the same culture). Research is reviewed which explores the possibility that deleterious effects of separation are partially offset by social interaction with host nationals. A…

This report describes a program designed to increase students' on-task behavior. The students in the sample population consisted of kindergarten, first, and fifth graders. These classrooms are located in a community in northern Illinois. The problem of student behavior adversely affecting on-task behavior was well documented through a review of…

The purpose of this study was to test a theory of interpersonal communication in non-therapeutic relationships. The theory was derived primarily from the work of Carl Rogers and Robert Carkhuff in psychology and from Evelyn Sieburg's theory of interpersonal confirmation in speech communication. In order to test the three generated hypotheses, a…

This study proposes a modern Aristotelian rhetorical theory--that rhetorical communication is that human communication within which persons deliberatively interact. A number of corollaries follow from the fundamental postulate and include: (1) persons function as the essential agents of the rhetorical communicative process; (2) a person's…

This literature review examined the relationship between depression and marital interaction patterns in marriages where one spouse is depressed. The social exchange process between the depressed individual and the spouse is dysfunctional in comparison to the processes in non-depressed couples and may be responsible for the maintenance of…

A review of the literature was conducted relevant to the history of wife battering, the incidence of such abuse in the United States, and difficulties in the definition of domestic violence. Major attempts to explain wife battering found in the literature included a focus on: (1) personality factors of the individuals involved (the ontogenic…

A parallel was recognized between a biblical view of optimal human functioning and five correlates to self-actualization (moral development, positive attitude toward death, positive interpersonal relationships, low level of anxiety, religious participation). A review of the relevant empirical literature yielded mixed conclusions. The studies which…

This study was concerned with determining the attitudes that prisoners and guards at Indiana State Prison hold toward one another, and with examining the interactions between prisoners and guards. Data were collected by means of structured interviews with 25 prisoners and 25 guards. Perceptions of each group were reported for the following areas:…

This literature review examines how the Bell Object Relations Inventory (BORI) (M. Bell and others, 1986) has been used in the literature. General domains of BORI use include interpersonal relatedness, the measurement of religious dimensions, and the diagnosis and prediction of psychopathology. Specific areas are reviewed regarding the…

This research was designed to investigate the therapeutic value of bibliotherapy in effecting changes in the growth process (self-concept and self-actualization) of the individual in group counseling. Forty-two secondary school students enrolled in a high school in Texas participated in the study on a volunteer basis. The subjects were assigned to…

Selected recent adolescent novels which center on a young adult's relationship with an older adult are analyzed. In these novels which feature older adults and young adults as main characters, the older character has qualities that the teenager examines, then accepts or rejects. In today's nuclear family, teenagers sometimes have very little…

This study determines the effects of tactile communication in sport on changes in interpersonal relationships between black and white children. The experimental design consisted of three treatment groups each emphasizing tactile, cooperative, or individual experiences in physical education. The control group participated in tactile, cooperative,…

A cognitive-style map was prepared for each of seven instructors and 125 college students drawn from those enrolled in a course in interpersonal communications. Students were partitioned into low-match, moderate-match, and high-match subgroups, on the basis of the degree of cognitive match with their instructors, before completing a communicaton…