This study examines alienation in two different cultural groups. Students from Middle Eastern or transitional societies expressed greater feelings of alienation than American students. In the case of students in both cultures from professional backgrounds the results were reversed. The results of the study are discussed in terms of cultural…

The effect of a change in conditions of test administration on self-reported introversion-extraversion and neuroticism, where subject knew that their self report would be compared with reports about them by others, was investigated at universities in North, Central, and South America. (JH)

This summary compares data on chhild rearing practices in Thailand and Ethiopia. (JH)

There is some evidence from Western countries indicating a relationship between authoritarian personality structure and political beliefs or attitudes. The present study explored political differences among an Indian student sample. (Author)

Murray's original Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Cards I to XX, was administered in two sessions to 80 Chinese male and female undergraduate students at the National Taiwan Normal University. The results are compared with American averages. (Author/JH)

The Conservatism Scale, a recently developed reliable and valid measure of social attitudes, was completed by Dutch, English, and New Zealand samples. In each analysis the first two components which emerged loaded on religious and racialist-punitive items respectively. (Author)

Reports results of a study of the predictions that gender differences exist in the preference for a caring morality and will exist across cultures. Describes a scale developed to test the predictions. Reports that the predictions were confirmed with women from four cultures preferring a more caring morality. (DK)

This note summarizes a study which attempted to test the generalizability of some of the basic tenets of social power theory to student faculty relations in medical schools. (Author)

Subjects rated blacks the same as other people (whites) but those willing to make trait attributions to blacks made them in a negative, unfavorable manner, pointing out that contact between groups is no guarantee of more favorable intergroup attitudes. (Author)

Interactions between three styles of supervisory and three styles of subordinate behavior were studied. Cross cultural similarities in the relationships due to supervisory-subordinate interactions were found, but there were differences when each style was considered separately. (DB)

A cross cultural study of 16-year-olds in Spain and the United States assesses the extent to which open or closed societies effect performance on the Dogmatism Scale, and the Acceptance of Self and Others Attitude Scale. (JH)

The major purposes of this study are twofold: to examine changes in self-esteem of institutionalized adolescents as a function of exposure to a positive verbal model, and, to compare the efficacy of the experimental procedure across two cultures, Thai and American. Articles from this issue are SO 504 093 and SO 504 094. (Author/RM)

This study, undertaken in India, shows that parents of conservative youth and parents of radical youth have very different attitudes towards child rearing. Availability information is given in SO 504 092. (Author/RM)

A cross-cultural relationship between household density and infant indulgence was investigated among Logoli infants in East Africa. Findings were taken as supportive of the view that socialization practices are influenced by ecological variables. (Author/JB)

Explores the role of culture in parenting by comparing the expectations and parenting practices of fathers in Mexico and in the United States. Shows that Mexican and U.S. fathers did not differ significantly. Notes that in both cultures fathers from lower socioeconomic families were less nurturing and used more discipline. (DSK)