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Gregory, W. Larry; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Cues, Females, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Prager, Karen J. – 1982
The fulfillment of the need for intimacy is believed to be central to adult life satisfaction, particularly in young adulthood. To explore the development of intimacy in women and to assess the relationships among intimacy status, locus of control, and self-disclosure, 97 college women with an average age of 30 were placed into 1 of 5 intimacy…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Disclosure, Females, Individual Differences
Heath, Linda; And Others – 1979
The relationship between women's perceptions of rape controllability and their fear, worry, concern, and perceived risk associated with rape is examined from in-person interviews with women (N=58) in Chicago, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Women's response to descriptions of the "typical rape" were used to divide them into those with high rape…
Descriptors: Crime, Emotional Response, Fear, Females
Oster, G. D.; And Others – 1981
Research has found that differential attributional styles exist between depressed and nondepressed populations. Depressed (N=32) and nondepressed (N=32) undergraduate female students were selected on the basis of scores on the Beck Depression Inventory and Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist. Participants performed a key press task where the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Depression (Psychology), Females
Whitley, Bernard E., Jr.; Sweeney, Paul D. – 1981
Research has revealed linkages among sex, sex-role self-concept, self-esteem, and attributional style, suggesting that sex-role self-concept may mediate the relationship between biological sex and attributional style. Female undergraduates (N=140) completed several questionnaires, including the Bem Sex Role Inventory to determine sex-role…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Attribution Theory, Females, Femininity