Based upon the author's PhD dissertation at Purdue University.

A modified version of this paper was presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association (Washington, D.C., September 1967).

Attempts to expand White's model of effectance motivation through a consideration of developmental implications. Considers such issues as developmental stages, environmental influences, success and failure effects, and perceived competence and control among others. (BD)

Argues that a major flaw in most family therapies is their overemphasis on interpersonal familial process, with insufficient attention to the role of genuine deficit in the so-called identified patient and to the influence of external forces generating conflicts. Reviews literature that highlights limitations inherent in family therapy.…

Examined the personality characteristics of male prison inmates. Results indicate some personality traits and two clinical syndromes are useful in differentiating prison inmates with high and low scores on measures of private self-consciousness. Suggests persons with high self-consciousness are more suspicious, obsessive-compulsive, and likely to…

Stresses need to create new social conditions to work out intergenerational tensions between youth and adults to provide status for the young. Paper presented at Sixth Annual Conference of American Association for Child Care in Hospitals in New York City, May, 1971. (DS)

This article discusses the differences between nomothetic and ideographic approaches to assessment, suggests that neither model is complete in itself, and presents some principles for making single subject investigations more reliable and valid. (Author)

There is a particular affinity between the humanistic side of the curriculum and the conception of the whole child. (Author)

Results of this study support the view that ideology formation is a function of both personality and social system factors. (Authors/MB)

Instruments administered to subjects with physical disabilities included "Disability Effects Scale, and "Attitudes toward Disabled Persons. Results indicated greater flexibility of response among group members able to identify with disabilities than among those unwilling to do so. (CJ)

Reviews relevant issues in clinical social group practice including group versus individual treatment, group work advantages, approach rationale, group conditions for change, worker role in group, group composition, group practice technique and method, time as group work dimension, pretherapy training, group therapy precautions, and group work…

This paper is structured in the form of a dialog between its two authors. It chronicles the life of Eric Hoffer, a self-taught philosopher and San Francisco longshoreman. Hoffer wrote "The True Believer" (1951), eight other books, and many articles. The paper describes his working life and the influences that led him to write on such…

The author outlines his 25-year attempt to understand the dynamics of humor. He views humor as the sine qua non of self actualization and maturity. The humorist has an adamant sense of his own significance without having to prove himself better than others or to prove his worth through some role performance. Connections with humankind--past,…

This study tests the hypothesis that persons will express relatively independent degrees of preference for ambiguity in different experiential domains. An original measure consisting of four subscales was developed to assess individual differences in the theoretical, social, economic and aesthetic domains, and was administered to a student sample.…