Concepts of existential/phenomenology philosophy more closely reflect women's experience of the world and provide a better base for a feminist science of psychology. Womens' experience includes basic cooperation, nurturance, empathy, and egalitarian morality. Logical positivist psychology discriminates against women by excluding inner experiencing…

The performance of college students on the adolescent-adult version of the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) test was examined in three studies to determine the effects of strategies on performance. With the standard instructions for the MFF, performance was found to be unrelated to test anxiety or extraversion and was parallel in many respects to…

Heretofore, researchers have perceived women as the ones concerned with having children, generally excluding males from their samples. In order to look at male attitudes on childbearing, an investigation was conducted on personality differences between childless males preferring children within five years of marriage and those preferring to delay…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DISCOVER THE PERSONALITY AND EXPERIENCE FACTORS WHICH DISTINGUISH STUDENTS WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL IN PROFESSIONAL TEACHER TRAINING COURSES AND ACTUALLY ENTER TEACHING, FROM THE PERSONALITY AND EXPERIENCE FACTORS OF STUDENTS WHO DROP OUT ALONG THE WAY. INFORMATION WAS GATHERED FROM ALL STUDENTS WHO ENTER THE JUNIOR…

THIS RESEARCH TRACED THE SOCIOMETRIC CHOICE PATTERNS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS FROM GRADE 4 THROUGH GRADE 11 TO DETERMINE IF THESE PATTERNS DIFFER FOR ABILITY GROUP VERSUS RANDOM GROUP PUPILS, TO LEARN WHETHER TRENDS IN SOCIOMETRIC STATUS DURING SECONDARY SCHOOL CAN BE PREDICTED FROM DATA OBTAINED IN THE ELEMENTARY GRADES, AND TO DETERMINE WHETHER…

THE FINDINGS OF 84 STUDIES OF TEACHER BEHAVIOR, ATTITUDES, AND PERSONALITY WERE CORRELATED WITH THEORETICAL MODELS DERIVED FROM THE EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE AND THE ALLPORT-VERNON-LINDZEY STUDY OF VALUES. IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT (1) AN OCCUPATIONAL PRESS SEEMS MOST EVIDENT ON THE EPPS SCALES RELATING TO HETEROSEXUALITY, AUTONOMY,…

CHARACTERISTICS OF 527 STUDENTS IN TWO JUNIOR COLLEGES WERE ANALYZED IN AN ATTEMPT TO RELATE THEIR LEVELS OF COLLEGE ELIGIBILITY (UNIVERSITY, STATE COLLEGE, JUNIOR COLLEGE, OR JUNIOR COLLEGE PROBATION) TO THEIR CONCEPTS OF AN IDEAL COLLEGE, THEIR INTELLECTUAL DISPOSITIONS, THEIR CREATIVE INCLINATIONS, AND THEIR HIGH-SCHOOL GRADE AVERAGES.…

SINCE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A HUMAN BEING, IT IS OFTEN FOUND THAT IMPAIRMENTS ARE FREQUENT CAUSES OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS. ON THE OTHER HAND, A GOOD GUIDE TO BEGINNING HELP INVOLVES PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION TO ESTIMATE INTELLIGENCE. ALSO A TEST OF HEARING SHOULD BE GIVEN AS WELL AS A…

IF THOSE STUDENTS CLASSIFIED AS UNDERACHIEVERS ARE TO RECEIVE MAXIMUM BENEFIT FROM THEIR EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE, EFFORTS MUST BE MADE TO IDENTIFY THEIR PROBLEMS AND AID THEM AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL. A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE SHOWS THAT MOST STUDIES CONCERNED WITH UNDERACHIEVERS HAVE BEEN CONCENTRATED AT THE SECONDARY OR COLLEGE LEVEL. A…

This study explored the interaction of personality and physical environment in students' choices of study space in a university library. It was hypothesized that non-impulsive, introverted students would use small, enclosed study carrels; and that impulsive students would tend not to use study carrels. One hundred twenty students were rated for…

While a great deal of clinical research attention has been directed toward assertive training, there have been few studies examining the social impact or interpersonal evaluation of assertive versus unassertive behavior, including the differential evaluation of assertiveness exhibited by males and females. In this study, subjects observed a…

There is a common assumption in personality psychology that an individual's attitudinal and/or motivational characteristics influence the selection, interpretation, and encoding of information from the external environment. However, recent reviews of empirical research in such areas as implicit personality theory and person perception offer little…

The Children's Social Relations Interview Scale (CSRIS) was developed to assess the role expectations and role behaviors associated with physical disabilities, namely low status and independence. Three traits are assessed: succorance, the seeking of help and support; restraint, physical and social limitation and circumscription by others; and…

Psychologists generally agree on the importance of early events in personality development, yet until now there has not been an opportunity to look at the personal lives of a group of adults over a considerable time. Subjects examined were 16 men and 44 women, parents of the subjects of the Guidance Study, a longitudinal study of the Institute of…

The factor structure, and thereby the underlying construct of the What I Think and Feel Test (WITF) was determined. The delineation of subscales of anxiety within this revision of the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale was significant, since anxiety is a multidimensional characteristic. Responses of 329 children (grades 1-12) to the 28 anxiety…