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Perceptual Accuracy as a Variable in Marital Adjustment
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Christensen, Larry; Wallace, Lee – Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 1976
This study investigated the ability of maritally-adjusted couples (N=12), couples attaining a divorce (N=5), and couples in counseling (N=9) to predict rewarding effects of their behavior on their spouse. The maritally-adjusted group was always more accurate in their predictions, but significantly more accurate only for selected areas of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship
Social Interaction and Emotional Adjustment Among the Blind
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Klich, Beatriz De M.; Wierig, George J., Jr. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
Determinants of Residential Group Development and Social Control
Baum, Andrew; And Others – Environmental Psychology and Nonverbal Behavior, 1978
Describes effects of architecturally determined residential group size on development of social groups and norms of social control over shared interior spaces. Long-corridor residents expressed lower feelings of control over themselves in shared interior spaces and reported they exerted less group-derived social control over hallway space than…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, College Students, Community Control
The Cart Before the Horse: Families Coping With the Policy of Deinstitutionalization.
Thompson, Edward H., Jr.; And Others – 1978
Feelings and attitudes were investigated among family members with mentally ill relatives whose treatment delivery system was being "deinstitutionalized" or moved from hospital-based treatment to community-based treatment. Subjects (N=125) were interviewed at home by either mental health professionals or professional interviewers. Results…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Coping, Family Attitudes
The Social Maps of Children Approaching Adolescence: Studying the Ecology of Youth Development.
Garbarino, James; And Others – 1977
This paper reports the first results of a three-year longitudinal study of the social maps of children beginning the transition to adolescence. This exploratory study is guided by Bronfenbrenner's conception of the ecology of human development stressing the importance of a phenomenological orientation to development in the context of ecological…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Cartography
Applications of Low-Inference Observation in Teacher Education.
Spaulding, Robert L. – 1983
An overview is presented of classroom observation instruments which have been created and refined since 1962. The components of teacher-pupil transactions measured by different observation methods are listed, and the complexities and difficulties encountered when using the instruments are discussed. A description is given of the Coping Analysis…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Beginning Teachers, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Environment
An Analysis of the Speech Adjustment of Second Grade Children to Variations in the Age of Listeners.
Plaskon, Stephen Paul – 1979
A sample of 48 middle and lower class kindergarten and second grade students participated in a study to determine what speech adjustments school-age children made for listeners of different ages. Half the second grade subjects learned about two performance tasks--a board game and constructing columns of colored blocks--from the researcher, after…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Child Language