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Arkin, Robert M. – 1979
High social anxiety subjects switched from assuming greater personal responsibility for success than for failure to assuming greater responsibility for failure than for success when told that their attributions would be scrutinized by others. Low social anxiety individuals did just the opposite. Additional studies of response among high and low…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
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Heath, Douglas H. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
A longitudinal study of the maturing of 68 professional and managerial men provided adolescent and adult test, questionnaire, and interview data about their personalities and competence that were predictive of their vocational adaptation. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Longitudinal Studies, Males
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Watt, Norman F.; Lubensky, Amy W. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
Earlier project reports compared childhood social behavior of nonmigratory schizophrenics and normal classmates by analyzing teachers' comments in school records. This article expands the sample to include migratory schizophrenics and analyzes childhood intellectual functioning. Behavioral differences indicated emotional immaturity and social…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Children, Intellectual Development
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Clifton, A. Kay; Lee, Dorothy E. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1976
Suicide proneness and self-destruction scales, together with measures of self-favorability and self-confidence, were administered to two samples (n=106 and n=213). It is suggested that women are self-destructive in passive ways, reflecting their lack of self-favorability and confidence and manifested by failure to react to everyday situations in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Personality Development
Keller, Barbara Bledsoe; Bell, Richard Q. – 1978
The possibility that child behavior could affect parental choice of socialization technique was examined. Girls, age nine, (N=3) were trained to act high and low in person-orientation, and served as confederates. Female college students (N-24), who were unaware that the children were trained, each participated in one session. Results demonstrated…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Developmental Psychology, Human Relations