Measured the extent to which state anxiety is heightened as a result of considering career planning questions. Liberal arts majors (N=341) showed an increase in posttest anxiety after a career planning questionnaire based on Harren's Assessment of Career Decision Making, while anxiety in the control group did not change. (Author/JAC)

The Rokeach Dogmatism Scale and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire were correlated with educator-reported (N=110) use of corporal punishment. Results indicated that closed-mindedness and neuroticism were highly correlated with reported use of corporal punishment. Extraversion was moderately correlated with reported use of corporal punishment,…

A model for designing a social studies unit for able (gifted) students that has no national boundaries or time, event, and cultural limitations is explained and illustrated by a diagram. The conceptual model provides an example built around the concept of leadership styles. (SEW)

Assessed the relationship between social avoidance and distress and several dependent variables. Results indicated that people distressed by social interaction are likely to be less self-confident and to exhibit lower needs for affiliation, change, and dominance, while exhibiting a stronger need to defer to others' judgments and opinions. (WAS)

Studied the relationship between identity status and academic achievement in female adolescents (N=20), based on the theories of Erikson and Marcia. Scoring of interviews suggested that experience and working through crises in beliefs were more closely associated with academic achievement and identity than specific commitments to career or…

Discussed Holland's views that educational achievement relates to primary personality orientation in a predictable fashion. Primary code types of college males and females (N=536) were assessed. First-semester grade point averages for each code type and Scholastic Aptitude Test scores served as criterion indices. Mixed support emerged for…

The literature review classifies reported sources of negative attitudes toward the disabled into 13 psychodynamic and sociological categories and stresses the difficulty of quickly changing such negative attitudes. (MC)

Reviews literature concerning women who choose nontraditional occupations. Discusses female career choice in general, and describes characteristics and traits of the nontraditionalistic woman, including personality, motivational and background traits. Discusses the effects of federal antidiscrimination legislation and current trends in women's…

Compared the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) and the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) as measures of androgyny. Results showed that femininty (Concern for Others) and masculinity (Dominance) accounted for most of the variance, but for PAQ, clusters of male- and female-valued items (i.e., Extroversion and Insecurity) formed subsidiary factors.…

Examined whether a total score on a multidimensional measure of trait anxiety could supplement the ability of individual dimension scale scores in predicting state anxiety responses to dimension-congruent stress. Results support the multidimensional approach to general trait anxiety but indicate that a total score would supplement predictions.…

Compared client ratings of counselor effectiveness with tested personality characteristics, personal-professional demographic variables, and supervisor ratings. Findings included a high correlation between supervisor and client ratings of counselor effectiveness and a significant difference between high- and low-effective counselors for job…

Investigates the consequences of the Great Depression experiences on middle- and working-class women by examining their well-being in old age 40 years later. Results showed consistently adverse effects of economic loss for working-class women and benign outcomes among women of higher status. (Author/RM)

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and an acculturation inventory consisting of 15 semantic differential and sociocultural items were administered to Chicano college students. Factor analysis produced a four-dimensional measure of acculturation. Implications for future cross-cultural research and the difficulties in the…

Tested efficiency of induced self-esteem in reducing various deficits caused by learned helplessness. Results indicated subjects who received induced self-esteem treatment showed significantly more deficit reversal. Results are discussed in relation to the usefulness of induced self-esteem as a form of treatment for helplessness depression.…

Investigated whether certain early experiences could explain differences in adults' test anxiety, achievement motivation, and fear of success. These antecedent variables yielded five factors. Multiple regression analyses using these factors as predictors were not significant for achievement motivation or fear of success, but were significant for…