Examines the effects of college on the attitudes of young people, showing that they become less authoritarian, less conservative, less prejudiced, more independent, more self-confident, and more sensitive to aesthetic experiences. (RB)

Results of the study did not indicate a common set of values related to personality variables. (BY)

Rating and pair-comparison procedures for assessing the importance of terminal and instrumental values were compared with the standard ranking procedure developed by Rokeach. Effects of order of presentation of of the value sets were also investigated. Neither procedure nor order had replicable effect though some sex differences were apparent. (TO)

Relevant literature on student activism was reviewed so as to discover leads for predictions about differences between activists and non-activists in the way they might be expected to rank the terminal and instrumental values from Rokeach's Value Survey. (Editor)

This paper presents and discusses the results of an empirical study of value orientations of a sample of students entering three different programs of study at a college of advanced education. (Editor)

The main aim of this study was to investigate whether repsonse anonymity would affect how school children ranked the importance of values on the Rokeach Value survey. (Author/RK)

The results of an Australian study in which medical students at Flinders University were tested and retested to trace changes in their attitudes and values since their freshman year are reported. Specific attitude items concerned with federal government intervention in health insurance were measured. (Author/MLW)

The enrollment decisions of 444 (183 male, 260 female, and 1 unspecified) university students at Flinders University (South Australia) were investigated. Results shed light on gender differences in achievement patterns in mathematics and English and in relation to assumptions about relations between expectations and valences. (TJH)

Results from a study comparing 114 American, 186 Australian, and 310 Canadian college students show that (1) Americans give more emphasis to achievement, competence, and conformity; (2) Australians give less emphasis to conformity and are more egalitarian; and (3) Canadians give less emphasis to affiliative contentment values. (SLD)