Discusses research at Felician College which documents personality changes in the contemporary female, and especially in the married woman, who is found to be more achievement and politically oriented, with higher aspirations, seeking change, less deterred by failures, and more self-assertive. Implications for counseling staff are discussed.…

Tests a theoretical model for the constitution of the self among adolescents in a cross-cultural, comparative study. Examines the impact of schools and families, as institutions and networks of interaction, on the self of adolescents. Based on data from three sample surveys from an East/West study of adolescent students. (DSK)