In this article, the author discusses the Student in Good Standing Contract (SGS), a program designed to help the students at Ocean Township High School in Monmouth County, New Jersey renew themselves, rebuild their self-confidence, and commit to learning. Once a student is identified as violating the school disciplinary policy and is suspended…

Structural, mean- and individual-level, differential, and positive personality continuity were examined in 599 patients treated for major depression assigned to 1 of 6 forms of a 6-month pharmacy-psychotherapy program. Covariation among traits from the Five Factor model remained invariant across treatment, and patients described themselves as…

This study evaluated the process of personality change in college students over the course of their freshman year. The criterion of academic success was the grade point average of the student at the end of the first and second semesters. (Author)

This document presents the results of two studies investiqating (1) the personality traits of physically trained and physically untrained individuals, and (2) the changes effected in personality traits by an exercise program. Training programs consisted of ten-week periods of activity in fencing, body conditioning, and weightlifting. Analysis of…

What transcendental meditation is, what recent research shows, and what some implications are for work adjustment and performance. (Author)

ASSESSMENT OF ATTITUDES OF PARENTS OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ALTERING PARENTAL ATTITUDES THROUGH TIME SEQUENCES OF COUNSELING WERE MADE. THE PROJECT STUDIED 60 FATHERS AND 60 MOTHERS WHO WERE DIVIDED INTO 4 GROUPS, EACH GROUP CONSISTING OF 15 FATHERS AND 15 MOTHERS. ONE GROUP SERVED AS THE CONTROL GROUP, ONE…

THIS STUDY SOUGHT TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN SELECTED PERSONALITY TRAITS, IDEOLOGIES, AND VALUES OF STUDENTS WHO ATTEND A 2-YEAR PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGE. A BATTERY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS WAS ADMINISTERED TO ALL PERSONS APPLYING FOR ADMISSION AS COLLEGE FRESHMEN FOR THE FALL SEMESTER OF 1960 AT ONE OF SIX CALIFORNIA PUBLIC…

A STUDY OF MENTAL HOSPITALIZATION WAS MADE IN A UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED, ACTIVE-CARE STATE INSTITUTION CONCERNED MAINLY WITH SCHIZOPHRENICS. THE AUTHOR EXAMINED THE ROUTES PATIENTS FOLLOW THROUGH THE HOSPITAL IN RELATION TO THERAPY AND THE PATIENT'S RETURN TO OUTSIDE LIFE. HE OBSERVED THAT THE PATIENT'S SOCIAL POSITIONS ARE DEFINED IN LARGE PART BY…

Material gathered from education, religion, medicine and related fields comprises this practical approach to dealing with human development. The unity underlying the multiplicity of ways of growth (150 educational methods or systems) is a recurrent theme. This unity transcends the seemingly diverse intentions of education, psychiatry, and…

Examines the validity of the Personal Orientation Dimensions (POD) for measuring changes following an inpatient alcoholic treatment program and describes these changes in terms of concepts of the actualizing person. (Author/DEP)

Two studies are reported, each of which achieved personality change with both audiovisual self-confrontation and supportive, nondirective interviews. The first study increased Eriksonian identity achievement. The second study changed a variable that moderated effects in the first study: Tomkins' humanistic versus normative orientation. (Author)

The relationship between dogmatism and teaching attitudes in student teachers is investigated, revealing that less dogmatic teachers evidence more favorable teaching attitudes, and it is suggested that change in expressed attitudes is positively related to the level of dogmatism possessed at the beginning of the experience. (MJB)

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)