The present study sought to examine how reliable the "Personal Attribute Inventory" (Parish, Bryant, & Shirazi, 1976) is in terms of reliability discerning college students' "self-concepts," as well as their "ideal self-concepts." These students were all enrolled at a small, private, Midwestern university. They completed these survey twice, seven…

As evidence that the Personal Attribute Inventory (PAI) is a self-concept scale, the present study required 265 college students to respond to it and to the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF). As hypothesized, the PAI was significantly related to the self-concept factor on the 16 PF. (Author/CTM)

Surveyed 426 children from intact, divorced, and reconstituted families, who responded to the Personal Attribute Inventory for Children to evaluate their families and themselves. Results showed a significant association between children's self-concepts and both their family structure and family concepts. (JAC)

Examines the impact of the five-week "Let's Get Excited about Life" program on second graders' self-concepts. Finds that students' self-concepts were elevated following treatment according to the students' ratings of themselves and their teachers' ratings of the students. Discusses implications of the findings. (RS)

Assesses self-concepts of 2,481 students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Reveals that eighth-grade students, in particular, seemed to demonstrate self-concepts substantially below their counterparts in other grade levels. (SR)

Over 400 students, grades 3-8, who had experienced father loss through divorce and whose mothers had not remarried demonstrated significantly lower self-concepts than those who were from intact families. Students whose mothers had remarried had slightly lower self-concepts than those from intact families. (Author/CP)

Seventeen teachers received inservice instructions regarding Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and then were asked to assess their students' needs and attempt to fulfill them to the very best of their ability. Of the 376 grade-school students, only children from intact families adopted significantly more positive self-concepts from the experience.…

Assessed self-concepts and evaluations of parents of a sample of high school students (n=174). Findings indicated that students' evaluations of parents, but not self-concepts, were significantly correlated with the perceived "loving" actions engaged in by their parents toward one another. Findings are in marked contrast to results reported by…

Young adults evaluated their parents, themselves, and their families. Self-concepts varied significantly as a function of perceived family happiness. It is suggested that threats to basic needs result in reduced opportunities to personal growth, and manifestation of lowered self-concept. (Author/GK)

Examines relationships between children's self-concepts and their evaluations of parents in families where father loss had occurred either through divorce or death. Subjects were 120 fifth- through eighth-grade children. (Author/MP)

Finds that a group of third graders' self-concept scores (collected up to a year following the administration of the "Let's Get Excited about Life" program) continue to be significantly elevated when compared to the pretreatment assessments of these children's self-concepts. (SR)

Finds that the five-part "Let's Get Excited about Life" audio-visual series enhanced self-esteem in two groups of second grade students. (SR)

Examines the implied meanings of labels. Client, patient, and typical person were compared using semantic differential-type scales and the Personal Attribute Inventory. Although client and patient were each evaluated more negatively than was typical person, no significant differences were found between client and patient. (Author/BEF)

Surveyed 123 college students to assess their self-concepts, evaluations of parents, and perceptions of parents' parenting styles. Student self-concept varied directly with perceived level of parental warmth, but did not vary as function of parents' level of restrictiveness. Fathers and mothers were rated more highly if they were perceived as warm…

A total of 606 grade school children were asked to check 15 of 48 adjectives on multiple copies of the Personal Attribute Inventory for Children which they considered descriptive of themselves, their mothers and their fathers. Among the results, concordance scores between self and mother were consistently high regardless of the family's…