Representing an attempt to document the basic assumptions of Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory of moral judgment, a 20-year longitudinal study was conducted. Assessed was the moral judgment development of 58 boys ages 10, 13, and 16 when the study began. At each of six testing times, subjects were individually interviewed on their…

Examined personality characteristics of Mexican American college freshmen (N=600) as a function of specific sociocultural values. Results of the Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire, Form C, showed significant differences between male and female, and urban and rural students, but not between high and low socioeconomic status students.…

Class society is vertically oriented and is reflected in such expressions as "on top" and "lower class." But solidarity, seen as respect for fellow human beings, is a horizontal relationship. Education for solidarity means an acknowledgement of human differences and a rethinking of our language implications. (CS)

Data collected from 400 teenagers and their parents indicate the important role played by both self-concept of ability and parental aspirations in the intergenerational transmission of social status. (Author/RM)

Used path analysis to study the educational aspirations of secondary school students in Costa Rica (N=346) and a second combined sample of students and dropouts (N=202). Results showed that preference for the Educational Mobility Channel mainly affects academic aspirations for males. Females' aspirations appear related to sex role socialization.…

Examines components of familial risk in the context of a four-year longitudinal study of children with mentally ill mothers. Risk factors examined were parental mental health, social status, parental perspectives, and family stress. Interactions among risk factors were found to be complex and different for cognitive and social-emotional…

Groups of 270 Black and 270 White children drawn from the national stratified random sample used in the standardization of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) were matched on age, sex, and WISC-R Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient to facilitate investigation of the patterns of specific cognitive abilities. (Author)

Hyperkinesis, educational placement, drug utilization, socioeconomic status and age were used to predict performance on the Purdue Perceptual-motor Survey subtests that measured balance, spatial organization, neurological organization, and visual motor accuracy. The variables were poor to moderate predictors of perceptual-motor performance of nine…

Little striking difference was found between students choosing psychiatry as a first career choice and those choosing it second or third. Results imply recruiting students in the last two groups for psychiatry specialization may be difficult, based on their attitudes about scientific advancement and social status in the profession. (MSE)

Jensen's ideas about two levels of intellectual abilities are criticized as being oversimplified. More than two levels of intellectual abilities and relationships between variables reflecting more than racial and socioeconomic status (SES) differences are suggested, arguing that Jensen's statements about race and SES differences are not properly…

Analysis of the specific sources of residential and community satisfaction reveal the prominence of objective features of the residential environment (e.g., housing quality, environmental resources, access to housing and services, and safety) in accounting for such satisfaction. (Author/GC)

Analyzed effects of race and socioeconomic status on perception of counseling process variables, including judged counselor empathy, judged counselor-client cognitive similarity, and attraction. Raters (N=24) gave highest counselor empathy ratings, client-counselor attraction and cognitive similarity ratings, and client improvement ratings when…

Reexamined the NORC Happiness Scale based on a survey of 1400 urban and nonurban elderly. Results indicated a high proportion of urban elderly were bored, depressed, and lonely as well as proud, excited, and interested. Their apparent inconsistent feeling states may result from a general feeling of deprivation. (Author)