Explores the relationship between alcohol consumption and contraceptive methods used by 364 heterosexually active undergraduate students at a large public university. Twenty-six percent of the respondents reported drinking alcohol before their last sexual encounter. Found that men who combined alcohol and sex were less likely to report that their…

Administered the Irrational Beliefs Test, Anger Inventory, and Trait Anxiety Inventory to 382 students. Results revealed that personal perfection, anxious overconcern, blame pronenes, and catastrophizing were predictors of general anger. Anxious overconcern, problem avoidance, catastrophizing, and personal perfection were significant regression…

Examines female and male sex-role orientation with emphasis on the structural and attitudinal predictors of sex-role ideology. Findings show sex-role orientation based on nontraditional wife-mother, husband-father and problematic husband-wife alterations roles elicted a significantly more modern response from females as compared to males. (Author)

Tallied graduating college students (N=1,843) who displayed personal adornment in addition to their traditional academic garb. Found that degree conferred, sex of recipient, and year of graduation were related to the frequency and forms (political and nonpolitical) of adornment. Indicated that personalization of graduation attire followed patterns…

The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire was administered to undergraduate volunteers, and responses were analyzed comparing attempters, contemplators, and nonattempters. A factor analysis indicated seven significant factors accounting for 24.2 percent of the total variance. A discriminant function analysis yielded two functions that discriminated…

Compared college students with 2-7-8 profiles on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (N=39) and students scoring high on the Perceptual Aberration-Magical Ideation Scale (N=41) on symptoms thought to indicate psychosis proneness. Results indicated that the groups did not differ on the number of subjects with psychotic and…

Investigated expected outcome on a test as a determinant of mood among college students. No correlation between mood and expected result was found. However, anticipated emotions, attributions of the expected result to chance and attribution of mood to the exam did correlated with mood. Female students were more affected than males. (Author/BL)

Examined attitudes toward elderly sexual behavior in college students (N=290). Found results indicated that the most salient factor related to attitudes was the specific behavior being evaluated and not the age, gender, or relationship to the subject. Presents implications of research. (Author/ABL)

Examined extent to which developmental theories of Erikson, Chickering, and Gilligan explain sex differences in autonomy and intimacy development in college students. Results from 441 college students suggest that both Gilligan's and Chickering's theories contribute to understanding of autonomy and intimacy development. Intimacy was strongest…

Perceived classroom fit was examined as interactions between learning style and educational climate. An analysis of 421 students revealed different patterns of fit. Thinking students of either gender did not indicate a preference for classroom climate. Both feeling men and women reported poorer fit with thinking classrooms. Only feeling women…

College dormitory residents (n=160) were surveyed concerning their alcohol use, social influences, attitudes and beliefs about alcohol, personality characteristics, and demographic information. Subjects were reinterviewed two years later. Regression equations indicated utility of several variables in predicting self-reports of alcohol consumption,…

An eight-semester study of university students indicated that student achievement expectancies were predictors of subsequent academic performance, providing support for the consideration of student achievement expectancies in instructional design. Notes gender differences. (PEN)

Investigated the relationship between two cognitive variables, social insight and psychological defensiveness, and scores on a validated scale for predicting early dropout or continuation in insight-oriented counseling for males (N=48) and females (N=86). Results suggest continuation for highly defended, less insightful males and highly defended,…

A study among a sample of college students found that male and female single college students are moving toward an equal standard with regard to premarital sexual behavior. However, the interpersonal psychological correlates of sexual intercourse behavior appear to be quite different for males and females. (Author/MJL)

College students (N=396), chronic pain patients (N=319), and schizophrenic veterans (N=43) completed the Depression Coping Questionnaire (DCQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Factor analysis of the DCQ identified eleven coping responses: social support, problem solving, self-blame/escape, aggression, indulgence, activities, medication,…