The results suggest that these personality variables affect responding rather than affect arousal. (Author)

Patients' self perceived treatment needs can be understood with reference to seven clusters of needs: need for help with anxiety depression, superego complaints, gross psychotic symptoms, physical symptoms causing emotional difficulties, economic vocational complaints, feelings of inadequacy and marital difficulties. These factors showed minimal…

The present results offer a partial explantation of drug use which is consistent with certain therapeutic techniques which have proven successful in the treatment of drug addicts. Approval motivation appears to play a significant role in both the initiation and treatment of illicit drug use. (Author)

The results of this study support Marlower and Crowne's (1964) conceptuatization of the high-need-for-approval person as acting to protect vulnerable self-esteem. (Author)

It was expected that children with high as compared to low SD would state overly cautious bids suggesting low expectancy for success, and would adopt a failure avoiding pattern of Rotter's level of aspiration task. The results support the hypotheses on SD and cautious, failure avoiding behavior. Age must be carefully controlled. (CJ)

Assessed the impact of two major response style dimensions (self-deception and impression management) on the report of psychological and somatic symptoms. Results confirmed that response styles were more predictive of psychological than somatic symptoms. Both anxiety and depression were associated with a high rate of physical symptoms,…

The relationship between MMPI Mf, Hsx, and education was investigated, using heterosexual and homosexual men. Mf was a better discriminator between the homosexual and heterosexual groups than Hsx, and it was less contaminated by educational bias. The relationship between educational level and Mf appears to be more complex than generally assumed.…

The results indicated that significant main effects for family size and sex indicated that Ss with smaller families showed lower need for approval and that females showed higher n App. Ordinal position was not a significant source of variance, however; these three family structure variables were found to be interacting. (Author)

The present study presents empirical information regarding the relationship between several methods of assessing proxemic behavior. Information was collated and evaluated with respect to four methods of measuring proxemic behavior: in vivo participation, observation of live actors, felt-board placements, and preferential response to photographs.…

New items were written for the sensation seeking scale in an attempt to develop new scales representative of hypothesized dimensions of sensation seeking. Four new factors were thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition and boredom susceptibility which was retained as a subscale for males only. (Author/CG)

Delineates sources of problematic methodology in research designed to relate measures of sex-role orientation to indices of psychological well-being. Procedures in sex-role research are examined in relation to orthogonal scales of sex-role orientation that provide independent measures of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny. Directions for…

Self-disclosure was examined in the present study under two situations and with varying expectancies and need for social approval. (Author)

Generally, results indicated that the information about the interviewer and the information requested of the interviewee were significantly related to the verbal behavior of Ss in an ongoing interview situation. For the most part, predictions regarding the approval dimension were not supported. (Author)

The findings of Masling and Harris were felt to violate the principle of parsimony and to cast unwarranted asperisons on the students who served as Es. The data were reinterpreted as showing that the male students were simply applying sound clinical principles in an attempt to do as well as possible on the task given them. (Author)

Contrary to the hypothesis, obese Ss were significantly higher in feminity scores. Analysis of subtests revealed that the major contributing factor was greater emotional reactivity of the obese. The author concluded that the interaction of obese characteristics make it difficult to test the hypothesis on standard M-F scales. (Author)