Character encompasses six basic virtues. These virtues can be listed as wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Each virtue comprises various character strengths that are creativity, curiosity, open-mindedness, love of learning, perspective, honesty, bravery, perseverance, zest, kindness, love, social intelligence,…

Wisdom, as a form of cognitive functioning, includes different types of knowledge and values, and it seems that increasing the knowledge about the world and different experiences may facilitate their development. School system usually pays more attention to accumulation of knowledge, but little related to wisdom. In this study wisdom…

Research suggests that students who fear failure are likely to utilize cognitive strategies such as self-handicapping that serve to perpetuate failure. Such devastating motivational dispositions clearly limit academic success. The present study examined negative emotional responses to scenarios involving academic failure among a sample of…

The key to human resource development is in actualizing individual and collective thinking, feeling and choosing potentials related to our minds, hearts and wills respectively. These capacities and faculties must be balanced and regulated according to the standards of truth, love and justice for individual, community and institutional development,…

Teachers tasked with developing moral character in future physicians face an array of pedagogic challenges, among them identifying tools to measure progress in instilling the requisite skill set. One validated instrument for assessing moral judgment is the Defining Issues Test (DIT-2). Based on the work of Lawrence Kohlberg, the test's main…

This paper synthesizes conceptual and empirical literature on organizational learning interventions based on dialogue. First, I attempt to delineate the concept of dialogue and to explain its relevance to organizational learning. Examples and arguments in support of dialogic learning initiatives are presented. Organizational realities and…

Knowing, loving, and willing are identified as the basic capacities for developing human potential. These three faculties are briefly defined and several dynamic models to describe their inter-relationship and role in developing potential presented. These capacities and models are further explored in relation to the fourteen learner-centered…

The psychosocial characteristics of adolescents are described in order to assist teachers in interacting more effectively with their students. Examination of students about the presence of pathology in adolescence reveals that the typical adolescent is not a stereotypically impulse-ridden, uncontrollable person. Many of an adolescent's…

The paper considers issues in intelligence testing of learning disabled (LD) children and adults and reviews results of psychological testing of LD students at the University of Virginia (UVA). Tests administered include neurological screening tests and personality assessments where appropriate. It is explained that the matriculating LD student is…

Attempts to establish the centrality of self-regulation as a theoretical assumption and a fundamental psychological construct. Asserts that students bring their own goals to the classroom and that these goals are key to their adaptation system. (SLD)

With the trend toward early retirement and the fact that people are living to an older average age, more years of an individual's life will be spent in retirement. To examine personal values as psychological determinants of the retirement preparation process, 206 classified university employees, between the ages of 50 and 65 years of age,…

The study examined relationships among information processing style, intellectual giftedness, and reading ability in 38 young (ages 4-6) gifted children. The children were given the Stanford Binet intelligence test, the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. Findings indicated that: (1) intellectual…

A clinical population of 39 families affected by fragile X syndrome, a sex-linked form of mental retardation, is described. Physical aspects, including such common features as prominent jaw and simple ears, are noted along with psychological aspects such as different mean IQs among various age groups. Findings of intellectual evaluation did not…

This report describes the psychological profile of a police officer who suffers from three dimensions of emotional complication: combat post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), alcoholism, and role immersion. Each of the three dimensions is discussed separately, followed by a discussion of their interaction and unification. It is noted that alcohol…

Examined the construct validity of scores on the Psychological Empowerment Scale of G. Spreitzer (1995). Confirmatory factor analysis of data from 160 nurses supported Spreitzer's four empowerment dimensions, and these findings were cross-validated with a subset from the same sample. Results also support the predictive validity of the scale.…