This study examined anxiety as a mediator on the relation between exposure to violence and victimization mediated by gender. The sample consisted of 1,311 seventh graders attending 8 middle schools in a small southern city. Gender was found to be a significant moderator for the relation of exposure to violence and victimization; therefore,…

A measure of equalitarianism as used by Joesting and Joesting (1972), measures of Women Can Become (WCB), Women Should Become (WSB), and the Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS; Taylor, 1953) were administered to 185 ninth grade students at a southern junior high school. (Author)

The effect of the most important dimensions of person perception -- the person performing the evaluation, the person being evaluated, and the interaction between evaluator and object of evaluation -- upon person descriptions was explored using a free-response design. (Author/RC)

Interviewed junior high school students regarding sexual activity. Females were less likely to have "ever had sex." More males anticipated partner pressure for sex and believed they might have sex before marriage. Among nonvirgins there was little gender difference in frequency or recency. Asserts that understanding adolescent sexual…

Sex of child, fathers education, race, and number of siblings of each sex were employed to predict High School Personality Questionnaire and Culture Fair Intelligence Questionnaire scores in a sample of 298 high school students. (ST)

Examined whether 1,153 adolescents' best same-sex and best opposite-sex friends' sexual intercourse behavior increases the likelihood that respondents who are virgins will have intercourse within two years. Results showed white females are most influenced by the sexual behavior of their best female and best male friend. (BH)

A study was conducted with seventh grade students to investigate sex differential of scores on the Short Test of Educational Ability in predicting academic performance. No significant sex differences were found. (Author/EK)

Uses data from a multisite evaluation with a sample of 5,935 eighth graders to explore the extent to which gang girls are similar to gang boys. Findings indicate that girls in gangs are involved in a full array of illegal activities as frequently as are boys. Girls report greater isolation from family and friends than do boys. (SLD)

The semantic structures of 53 Cree-Indian and 120 non-Indian junior high school students were examined. The semantic structures of both sexes were examined separately. (NQ)

Examined male (N=58) and female (N=66) junior high school students to determine their preference for sex of counselor under personal/social and educational hypothetical counseling situations. Found girls demonstrated definite same-sex preference for both counseling situations; boys preferred male counselors for personal/social counseling and…

Used confirmatory factor analytic strategies to test for factorial invariance of factors derived from Career Decision Scale. Four-factor model derived from factor analysis of present sample (N=698) was tested on four grade levels by gender subgroup. Found that model depicting equivalent factor loadings and factor variances and covariances across…

Analyzed longitudinal data from 105 students when they were in junior high and high school to examine relationship between gender and identity development over time. Results indicated that patterns of change over time were similar for males and females; as students aged, they grew in psychosocial maturity regardless of gender. (Author/NB)

Studied the mathematics achievement of boys and girls in four Asian nations that participated in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (Singapore, Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong). Findings support the interactionist model of D. Gerry (1996) in which biologically secondary mathematical abilities are posited to emerge only with…