Presents a comparison of Teplovian notions of temperament to Western conceptualizations of temperament concluding that if Russian investigators continue to alter their models to fit their empirical results, they will generate productive research which may lead to practical applications more rapidly than the Western style of research. (CS)

Article presented an analytical summary of some of the main features of lifelong education (and the process of lifelong learning which it presumably facilitates), together with some critical review. (Author/RK)

This study assesses Indianness (mixed or full-blood), sex, and grade differences among Oglala Sioux high school students, using the Coopersmith Behavior Rating Forms and the Quay-Peterson Behavior Problem Checklist. Results indicate that mixed-bloods had higher achievement and greater popularity than full-bloods. Fewer problems and higher…

This study used Holland's personality typology to investigate whether the dominant personality types of exchange students coming to the U.S. from various countries are related to the characteristics of those countries. (Editor)

Five personality scales administered as part of a larger study of personality correlates of children with articulation errors resulted in descriptive statistics on grade by sex samples, school effects, test-retest coefficients, and intercorrelations. (Author/KM)

Two groups of nonprofessional trainees received specific job-related training in behavioral principles and procedures of both milieu and social-learning treatment programs for chronic mental patients. Each group received different learning approaches. Attitudinal changes are associated with behavior-specific training and differential patterns of…

Summarizes two questionnaire surveys on the counselors' viewpoints and opinions about the engineering student and on the engineering students' perceptions of themselves. Indicates that there exist differences between the coulselors' and students' perceptions, especially on personality. (CC)

The Self-Report Jealousy Scale was developed to measure individual differences regarding a person's propensity to reach in a jealous manner to a variety of jealousy-evoking situations. The scale possesses good psychometric properties. Studies are reported which administered the Self-Report Jealousy Scale with various personality scales. The…

This study investigates whether variations in method of presentation of anxiety items (experimenter's voice, experimenter's taped voice, subject's taped voice) will result in differences in autonomic arousal (as measured by self-report, galvanic skin response, cardiac rate, blood pressure). Ss were 24 Naval Academy midshipmen. The procedure…

The Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI), the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS), and the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) were administered to 183 undergraduate students enrolled in teacher education courses. The MTAI was compared with each of the two personality instruments by canonical analysis. Concludes that teacher's…

The present study used a variety of personality tests to compare long- and short-sleeping college students and a stepwise multiple regression analysis in order to arrive at a pattern analysis and to include a test for the effect of possible repressor variables. (Author)

This study explored the differential effects of a noxious stimulus under two conditions of information concerning the time of occurrence of the stress and two conditions of receiving temporal information. (Author/RK)

Using the Hutt Adaption of the Bender-Gestalt Test (HABGT), this study explored the test-retest reliability of the scale with forty process schizophrenics over a two week interval. (Author/DEP)

Women who elect coeducational living when first available do differ from those who do not. Such differences are quite comparable to differences found between volunteers a) for a psychological experiment and b) for creativity training and their respective nonvolunteer classmates. (Author)