Research has not addressed issues of life meaning in a life-span developmental framework. The Loss and Transcendence paradigm was developed as a humanistic-existential approach to life-span development which has as its central theme the concept that individuals are in a continuous process of creating their lives and their selves. To explore loss…

This study was part of a larger study which examined the association of such factors as mood, presence of physical symptoms, consumption of drugs and alcohol, exercise, weight-to-height ratio, number of hours of sleep, and social context on the type and amount of foods eaten at three meals each day for a sample of normal adults. This study focused…

While research has examined the salient effect of fathers in child development, little attention has focused on the effect of the infant on the father. The impact of fatherhood on normative male development was investigated in a twofold manner. First, to assess the extent to which the birth experience and actual parenthood produced differing…

A pilot study on daily occurrences and events which cause worry, or pose a problem, difficulty, or bother to a sample of 18 adults diagnosed as mentally handicapped was carried out at the Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute, a demonstration and research facility for adults diagnosed as mentally handicapped. A questionnaire was…

This article traces the relationship between play and the various stages of human growth: infant, anal-muscular, phallicoedipal, latency, adolescent, and adult development. (CS)

Investigated the number and characteristics of adults experiencing different types of subjective deprivation, and evaluated Cantril's assertion that some of these types of deprivation are ontogenetic in nature. (DP)

An alternative content method, allowing bipolar representation and based on separate scaling of quality and intensity, is presented. For comparative purposes the method was used together with a distance method and an ordinary content method, with nine words denoting emotions as stimuli. (Author)

Biorhythm comes from the Greek words for life and regulated beat. The science of biorhythm is concerned with the rhythmic cycles of physical, emotional, and intellectual life. These cycles have lengths of 23, 28, and 33 days respectively. During the first half of each cycle, energy is high. During the low period, second phase abilities, feelings,…

Three measures--physiological, behavioral, and phenomenological in nature--were used to register inexperienced springboard divers' perceptions of stress when faced with the execution of a forward dive from three standard heights; pool deck, one-meter and three-meter springboards. Forty-eight subjects were divided into four groups representing…

A 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design was utilized to investigate the effects of race of expressor (black and white), sex of expressor, race of perceiver and sex of perceiver on perception of emotion (POE). Perception of seven emotions (anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, pain, and sadness) was analyzed in terms of three dependent variables: (1)…

Regression, another mechanism studied by Sigmund Freud, has had much research, e.g., hypnotic regression, frustration regression, schizophrenic regression, and infra-human-animal regression (often directly related to fixation). Many investigators worked with hypnotic age regression, which has a long history, going back to Russian reflexologists.…

Repression was considered by Freud as a key mechanism for everyone, especially for normals and neurotics. His Repression paper, written in 1915, was psychoanalytically definitive. Of course, much had been written before and even more was written after. Anna Freud's book The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence included repression and was published by…

It has been discovered that dreams and daydreams can be productive states in the process of scientific innovation. An attempt is made to provide some typical examples of insights which have come to scientists during dream-like states and in sleep. (Author/MA)