THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS CONDUCTED A STUDY TO DETERMINE IF DIFFERENT BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS APPEAR AMONG DIFFERENT TYPES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS--THE COLLEGIATE WHO PURSUES FUN, THE SKILL SEEKING VOCATIONAL STUDENT, THE KNOWLEDGE-FOR-ITS-OWN-SAKE ACADEMIC STUDENT, AND THE IDENTITY-CONSCIOUS NONCONFORMIST. DEMOGRAPHIC DATA, THE SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST…

A measure of sex guilt was related to the report of previous sexual experiences, feelings following participation, or reasons for nonparticipation, and premarital and postmarital sexual standards. Sex guilt was negatively correlated with the level of intimacy of premarital sexual experiences, and guilty Ss has less permissive premarital standards.…

This study, concerned with distinguishing between the public and private determinants of self-presentational strategy, tests the hypothesis that one consequence of another's prior knowledge about a person is an implicit pressure on that person to act in a way consistent with what the other already knows about him or her. Subjects were 90…

One major finding is that a substantial share of the variance common to the five defensive scales included in the study are accounted for by the role playing factor. Also, all subtest scores of admission of common frailties load on the same factor as do aggression, suspicion, autism, and body symptoms. (Author)

The present study looks primarily at the correlates of drug use among a sample of female undergraduate students at a State University in West Virginia. (Author)

Subjects were given the PF and the EPPS. Some results were that the more regularly males attend church the greater their preoccupation with inner experience; the opposite for females. (Author/EK)

To investigate sexual aggressiveness in college-age males, a sexual experiences questionnaire was used for preselection of university males high, moderate and low in sexual aggressiveness. High and moderate males were individually interviewed by a trained male graduate psychology student, and all three groups were administered a variety of…

The purpose of this research was to isolate and study 2 separate alienation dimensions in relation to other personality characteristics associated with psychopathology. Social alienation and self alienation are conceived as psychological constructs here and distinguished conceptually in the following manner: social alienation is taken here as an…

The purpose of the study was to investigate the attitudes and practices toward drugs by users and nonusers at Queensborough Community College and the relationship of these attitudes and practices to selected psychosocial factors. (Author)

Undergraduates (N=91) were shown a videotaped discussion of interracial dating by five heterosexual biological females and one cross-dressed male transsexual. Experimental subjects, who had been previously informed of the presence of the transsexual were all able to identify her, significantly more than control subjects who had not been told this.…

Nineteen subjects, assigned to three counseling groups were rated using criteria from the TEOAD. Findings suggest criteria involve dimensions beyond emotion and do not discriminate among them. (EK)

This study examines and supports the hypothesis that diverse student behavior can be meaningfully and usefully construed when viewed from the single perspective described here as hedonism vs. the Protestant Ethic. Subjects were 1375 male and female undergraduate students. Anonymous questionnaires dealing with background, academic life, social and…