Examined the temperament profile of 1,777 resident assistants compared to a normative sample of 3,352. Results showed the RA could be categorized by higher amiable, expressive, and driving scores and lower reflective scores than the norms, with significant sex differences. Implications are suggested for RA selection and inservice education. (JAC)

Reviews experiences of the author which illustrate a journey toward interdependence. Suggests that sex differences in children's socialization have influenced males and females to react differently to competition and criticism, but women are realizing they can empower each other for survival and growth. (JAC)

The results of this study indicate that undergraduate female students, regardless of race or geographical location in the United States, are more likely to experience guilt feelings than are men. (Author)

This paper presents an analysis of the bereavement reactions of survivors of peacetime disasters resulting in mass-death. A comparison of these bereavement reactions with those described as "normal" reactions to a single-death reveals certain similarities. (Author)

The relationship between well being and expectations is complicated and contingent upon many factors. Self-esteem becomes the balance between ability and ambition. To feel better about oneself entails a combination of striving in certain areas while lowering expectations in others. The three most important domains of peoples' lives are: love…

Comparisons between volunteer telephone counselors and nonvolunteer college students were made on several psychological tests: the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, the Personal Orientation Inventory, and the Self-Disclosure Questionnaire. In their self-concepts, the groups differed only in moral-ethical self perceptions. The counselors' scores…

Results indicated that high-sex-guilt Ss retained less lecture information than low-guilt Ss. Results were interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that guilt generated anxiety raises arousal past the optimum level necessary for efficient recall performance. (Author)

Literature reviews show that there are 3 alternative models of the determinants of the utilization of health services: (1) unequal access; (2) culture of poverty; and, (3) cultural and social psychological differences related to ethnicity and SES. On the basis of data gathered in Los Angeles, implications of findings for pluralism in the…

A study was designed to examine further the psychometric relationships between the Marlowe-Crown Social Desirability Scale (MC-SDS) and a Repression-Sensitization (R-S) scale in order to affirm or deny the meaningfulness of pairing these two personality measures. The relationships between these measures was considered to be of sufficiently high…

Carkhuff's model of psychopathology suggesting a positive relationship between a person's human relations skills and indices of psychological adjustment was tested by using physically disabled college students as subjects and correlating a measure of their ability to communicate human relations skills with ratings of their acceptance of…

R.S. Lazarus's theory of coping was used to investigate appraisal and reappraisal of threat in repressors and sensitizers. Two indexes of stress, self-report ratings of affect and palmar skin conductance, were measured prior to performance on a reaction time task, after one-third of the task was completed and after two-thirds of the task was…

The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between attitudes toward visibly disabled persons and both trait and state anxiety. Results indicated that persons whose attitudes toward the cosmetically disabled were more negative showed more state anxiety in the interaction and more trait anxiety as measured by the MAS than students…

Study supports the hypothesis that boys and girls, at the time they enter school, do not show the sex-related patterns of fantasy that have been found to differentiate adult men and women. By the age of about 9, sexual differentiation in fantasy patterns is clearly evident. (Authors/CB)

The expectation that a member of a minority cultural or racial group exhibiting deviant behavior would be socially rejected was investigated. Results contrary to expectation are explained in terms of the greater rejection of someone similar (i.e., racial background) to oneself who behaves in a deviant or negatively valued manner. (Author)