To explore current conceptions about menstruation, 50 male and female undergraduate students were asked to Q sort symptoms from the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ). The MDQ is a scale which contains 47 symptoms which have been associated with the menstrual cycle. The Q sort is a statistical technique in which data are analyzed as…

AFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR TESTING INSTRUMENTS KNOWN AS Q-SORTS WERE DEMONSTRATED IN A COMPUTER-ORIENTED APPROACH TO THE ASSESSMENT OF PERSONAL TRAITS, VALVE SYSTEMS, AND SELF-CONCEPTS OF THE ROLE OF A TEACHER. DURING TWO SEMESTERS, Q-SORTS WERE ADMINISTERED TO 351 STUDENT TEACHERS, BEGINNING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS, AND MASTER TEACHERS IN EIGHT GROUPS.…

The attitudes of two groups of teachers and administrators from inner city schools in northeastern Ohio, who met at Kent State University in the summer of 1969 to discuss problems relating to education and the disadvantaged child, were contrasted using a Q-sort technique. One group of 32 was writing an innovative social studies curriculum; the…

The Sliding Person Test (SPERT) is a nonverbal measure of self-ideal discrepancy. The original test was a wooden manipulative which Joseph S. Karmos designed in order to pursue the 1962 conclusions of John Shlien, that even at a high level of abstraction, self-esteem is not without and it is more related to the unique and personal items which an…

The first phase of this research used focus groups of current students to identify characteristics of effective and ineffective teachers. The second phase used q-methodology to have students holistically describe effective and ineffective teachers in small and large classes. Results suggest that there are different types of effective and…

Approximately 600 teachers in 32 public elementary schools and secondary schools from 1 urban southeastern school district participated in a study conducted to identify prototypes of school climate concerning decisional participation cultures. A 19-item decisional participation measure was used, and the median score of the teachers at each school…

This document provides data from an ongoing longitudinal study of the degree of continuity in individual development over time and describes the complexities involved in efforts to determine the nature of individual continuity. Findings from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of children in a day camp provide evidence for continuity in individual…

A study was conducted to identify types of mental operations of 4- and 5-year-olds and to relate them to the child's age and the educational level of the mother. The sample consisted of 423 white English-speaking children of American parentage, evenly divided by sex and as evenly distributed as possible over the 12-month-age range of 4 to 5 years.…

The phenomenon of intolerance of ambiguity in young children was investigated in this longitudinal study. Personality data for the total of 120 children in the study were obtained from: (1) descriptions of the children at both 3 and 4 years of age by their teachers, using the California Child Q-set; (2) the children's performance on the Lowenfeld…

The development of Q methodology is briefly reviewed, and the methodology itself is briefly described. Finally, a number of the issues are raised relating to the use of Q. Q methodology can have fruitful applications if it is not used indescriminately. Appropriate use of Q requires careful attention to the way the problems being researched are…

Examines how social and psychological factors interact to produce different lifestyles and patterns of media use. Based on responses to telephone interviews and questionnaires, four lifestyle types are identified and their use of cable television and newspapers and newsmagazines is analyzed. (50 references) (Author/LRW)

This study examined the views of kindergarten, first-, and second-grade teachers regarding families' competence to contribute knowledge to their child's educational process. In the first part of the study, 33 teachers from a variety of schools participated in small-group nominal group technique discussions. Their beliefs then contributed to the…

Maintains that it is premature to conclude that Q-Sort is preferable to Strange Situation for the assessment of attachment security of infants in day care. (BB)

In the United States, women accounted for 44 percent of the workforce but only 15 percent of the science and engineering jobs during the 1980s. Traditional socialization from a number of different sources educates girls and women to believe that these non-traditional careers are not available to them. Several previous researchers have shown that…

The purpose of a mass media study was to (l) identify mass media types (patterns of exposure to mass media content) among seventh graders, high school juniors, and adults in a given geographic area; (2) show similarities and differences in the mass media types isolated for these three age groups; (3) pinpoint demographic variables most strongly…