The relationship between a teacher's human values orientation and individual teaching style is explored. Undergraduate education majors were asked to complete the Teaching Style Q-Sort instrument containing 16 statements about teacher behavior, identifying each as most like or unlike their own style. The subjects were also asked to respond to the…

SCHOOL ENTRANCE VARIABLES AFFECT LATER STUDENT PERFORMANCE. THIS STATEMENT WAS STUDIED BY ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF CHRONOLOGICAL AGE AND READINESS LEVEL AT SCHOOL ENTRANCE AND SEX AND RACIAL DIFFERENCE (WHITE AND NEGRO) ON THE FOURTH-GRADE ACHIEVEMENT AND PERSONALITY ADJUSTMENT OF 1,110 PUPILS OF 39 SCHOOLS LOCATED IN CULTURALLY DEPRIVED AREAS OF…

TO DETERMINE IF THERE WERE DIFFERENCES IN THE FACTOR STRUCTURE OF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION DATA OF EXECUTIVES, IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT FACTOR STRUCTURE WOULD BE RELATED TO FUNCTIONAL ASSIGNMENT AND THE EMPHASIS GIVEN THAT FUNCTION BY THE ORGANIZATION. A SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE WAS ADMINISTERED TO 382 LATIN AMERICAN EXECUTIVES. A PRINCIPLE COMPONENT…

The primary purpose of this monograph is to describe the relationship between adolescent personality and the educational and vocational development of young adults, criteria for the latter being developed from the Project TALENT follow-up studies. This relationship seeking is set in a context of career development theory and a concern for guidance…

The School Environment Preference Schedule (SEPS) measures, at the junior- and senior-high school level, "bureaucratic orientation," which is measured, at the adult level, by the Work Environment Preference Schedule (WEPS) of the same author. High scores typify the student who accepts and defers to authority, who prefers specific rules…

This study describes the relationship between the flexibility of personality of the junior college president and the flexibility (or lack of it) in the faculty he hires, and also the relationship between turnover and the variable of this quality in the president and faculty members. As part of the study involved faculty turnover for three years,…

This book presents a teleological analysis of the concepts of human behavior. Through distinctions and definitions, a model or system is developed, upon which all aspects of behavior are interrelated. The model of choice or purposeful state is discussed with its underlying concepts. Human communication and feeling, and cooperation and conflict…

In 1963, 19 unemployed Negro men entered a one-year program sponsored by the Office of Manpower, Automation and Training at Sinai Hospital, Detroit to learn practical nursing. Simultaneously a demonstration project to identify trainee and teaching staff problems and their possible solutions was carried out by two psychologists who provided…

A series of studies is reported which explores methodological and procedural variables in interpersonal perception research, and proposes alternative methods to improve personality assessment in this area. Initial studies attempted to corroborate a five-factor model of peer-ratings, and validate self-report ratings on these factors against…

The authors provide in this study a paradigm for the systematic investigation of autonomy in education by reviewing the thinking and research on autonomy in philosophy, education, and psychology, all of which define, analyze and value autonomy in different ways. Significant issues surrounding autonomy and strategies for dealing with them are…

A group of voluntarily childless, maried women (N=38) were compared with a group of married women who planned to have children (N=32) and were similar in age, education, and socio-economic background. The two groups were compared on measures of three personality trait clusters which pertained to social adjustment, mental health, and sex-role…

This review includes chapters by several medical and sociological experts, and seeks to identify the key personality traits in drug dependence. It is a study of individual rather than physical and sociological variables. An attempt is made to discover the part played by one's own psychodynamics and their relationship to substance abuse. (MFD)

Child rearing and parenting practices during the 1920s, the impact of science and scientific discoveries during this period, medical advances and the concurrent decline in the death-rate of infants and young children are discussed in this paper. Also discussed is the impact of the theories of psychologists G. Stanley Hall, Lewis Terman, and John…

The California Psychological Inventory was administered to 175 Union Correctional Institution inmates enrolled in the college level program offered by Lake City Community College (Florida). Useable data pertaining to personality characteristics, self-image, values, and general expectations were obtained from 151 inmates who were eligible for the…

This study attempts to compare the perceptions and self-reported behavior of high, middle, and low authoritarian advertising executives, business executives, and members of the general public concerning the social effects of advertising. For the advertising sample, a total of 393 men and women were selected according to their executive positions…