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Arkin, Robert M. – 1979
High social anxiety subjects switched from assuming greater personal responsibility for success than for failure to assuming greater responsibility for failure than for success when told that their attributions would be scrutinized by others. Low social anxiety individuals did just the opposite. Additional studies of response among high and low…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
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Wells, Marolyn; Jones, Rebecca – American Journal of Family Therapy, 2000
Utilizing data from undergraduate students (N=197), research determined that childhood parentification is associated with shame-proneness in adults. Findings theoretically link to an earlier study that found a relationship between childhood parentification and both narcissistic and masochistic personality characteristics. Discusses implications of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Child Development
Owens, Thomas R. – 1983
Students and teachers at a suburban high school in Oregon and employers associated with cooperative work experience (CWE) and experience-based career education (EBCE) programs were interviewed regarding youth responsibility. Specific focuses were perceptions about the meaning of responsibility, youth attitudes regarding being given adult…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adolescents, Behavior Development, Career Education