The study explores work motivation of autistic adults through the lens of Self-Determination Theory (SDT). Twelve autistic employees (ages 28-47; 3 females) participated in semi-structured qualitative interviews about their work experience. Analysis combined inductive and deductive approaches, identifying motivational themes emerging from the…

This case study is about understanding disruptive students who are motivated by a psychological need to invoke change in a learning space. Marczewski's User Types Test, a typology for classifying both intrinsic and extrinsic motivational tendencies, and based on Self-Determination Theory, was administered to 14 participants, aged 9 through 15, to…

Newcomer adjustment, the process an individual goes through within the first year at a new organization, can be a challenging transition for traditionally aged recent college graduates. Unsuccessful adjustment can have profound negative consequences for young adults, organizations, and undergraduate institutions. Gaps exist in the human resource…

In the present study, we tested the effects of specific dimensions of perceived teaching behaviors on students' self-determined motivation in physical education. In accordance with the tenets of self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2000), we expected the psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness would mediate these…

This roundtable discussion focusos on fashion which may be indicative of the prevailing social climate. Clothing may be a reflection of ambivalence toward the body, used to cover it from shame" while also displaying it to advantage. A discussion of historical changes in dress, together with psychological implications, is presented. (Author/CJ)

Uses principles of ecological theory to predict architectural needs of a small town. Examines Barker's concept of undermanning which led to six hypotheses regarding small-town behavior and corresponding design recommendations. Concludes that psychology of small-town resident is unique because of special ecological demands placed on the people.…

This paper contends that the current diagnostic process could increase its value by using available procedures for more precise definition of terms and identification of behavioral correlates, and by the elaboration of concomitant etiological, dynamic and therapeutic possibilities. (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)

This study of 28 males study was oriented to discriminating impotence of biogenic origins from psychogenic etiology on the basis of a psychological inventory, the DSFI. Evaluation of the increase in predictive efficiency with use of the DSFI revealed it to be of value in clinical assessment of male potency disorders. (Author)

A phenomenological approach to man involves self concept, perceptual field and resulting behavior. Racism to be thoroughly understood must be placed in such perspective, encompassing the racist, the object of the racism and the society which permits it to exist. (Author)

The author investigates the nature of gambling and analyzes the pathological or compulsive gambler psyche. (BY)

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)

Heroin addiction as a major social, legal and medical problem, should be viewed in the sexual aspect as it is," rather than through a mythological mist of half truths. (Author)

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)

Author examines change in social attitudes, not so much toward engaging in deviant sex practices as in accepting them. He feels that while such practices between consenting adults, performed in private, should not be subject to legal scrutiny, neither should they be institutionalized lest they further destroy the concept of family. Presented at…