For many years, teacher education has focused on the centrality of the learner in the educational process. This study examined how preservice teachers' beliefs regarding children changed over the course of a teacher education program. It also examined the role of personality indicators in that change. Preservice social studies teachers were…

Watching babies learn to walk can teach one a lot about himself/herself and one's ability to change. Changing one's self, perspectives, or assumptions requires: (1) the determination and perseverance to persist; (2) the openness to believe that if one can't change now, maybe he/she can later; (3) the ability to take a stand, even if one knows it…

Anthropologists have tended to look at and describe those aspects of American Indian life in the Southwest which could be termed aboriginal to the neglect of the total picture of Indian life as it actually is. (FF)

Shows that interview effects can occur when the respondent's attitudes and information are unfocused or ambiguous and when the topic is important. Explains these interview effects by the respondent's desires to maintain self-esteem during the interview situation. (RL)

Examined effects of parents' perceptions of infant temperament on personality change during transition to parenthood. Using self-rating scales, both global/trait and situation-specific/state measures were obtained from new parent and childless couples for efficacy expectations, personal control, anxiety, and depression. Differential results were…

As a result of serious accidents and illness many persons undergo death-rebirth experiences. The changes in attitudes, personality, and beliefs that sometimes follow these experiences reflect rebirth and reveal a fundamental human strategy for coping with the threat of death. These experiences have great therapeutic potential. (Author)

Evidence of various but unitary shifts to political liberalization, greater intraceptiveness and self-determination, greater detachment from parents, and increased incidence of principled moral reason suggests that Peace Corps volunteers had undergone substantial self-redefinition. (Author/RC)

In this study of homosexuality the following variables were tested: (1) acceptance of others, (2) faith in others, and (3) levels of masculinity and femininity (M-F). The subjects were 11th and 12th graders enrolled in a suburban high school (n=68). Three standardized measurement instruments, each designed to measure one of the above-mentioned…

The purpose of the present study was to determine, through a longitudinal study of persons differing in amount of higher education over a 2-year and a 4-year period, whether or not there are changes in personality characteristics associated with college education. Thus, the study was made of over 2,000 persons, part of whom attended college or…

Personality changes in a sample of 49 women physicians were measured by psychological tests and interview procedures. They suggested greater effectiveness in work and achievements, more introspection, more certainty about goals, more awareness and acceptance of traditional role demands, and less striving for success and need to impress others.…

Discusses the results of a correctional education program which appears to lead to a reduced rate of return to prison. The operation of the program is based on the moral development models and attitude change theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, and others. (SK)

The FIRO-B by Schutz and the Personal Orientation Inventory by Shostrum were used to assess personality changes in a verbal and a nonverbal T-group. Personality measures used failed to find significant posttreatment differences between groups. Several significant differences occurred within groups. (Author)

Research in the area of person perception has been dominated by the assumption that people seek stable trait information and view others as highly consistent. To examine whether perceivers would have difficulty in thinking of ways that people have changed, and in reporting instances of such change, 120 college students were asked to complete short…