Little empirical study has been done on the efficacy of the variety of psychological approaches used to treat depression. The author reviews theoretical points of view: psychoanalytic, cognitive and behavioral, and constructs an experimental design to compare the relative effectiveness of cognitive therapy, assertiveness training and insight…

The purpose of this memo is to present tests that comprise the test battery used to select Navy personnel to train marine mammals, and to describe the scoring procedures of the tests. The test battery consists of: Biosystems General Information Test (BGIT), Personnel History Questionnaire (PHQ), Gordon Personal Inventory, Gordon Personal Profile,…

This quarterly bulletin provides brief annotations for tests recently acquired by the Educational Testing Service Test Collection grouped under the following types: achievement; aptitude; personality, interests, attitudes, and opinions; miscellaneous, sensory-motor, and unidentified. Entries of interest to those working with young children are…

Therapeutic communication, or interaction which provokes personal insight or reorientation, can be best understood as a transactive, rather than linear, interrelationship between people or groups. Two practical responses to "pathological" communication patterns illustrate the validity of the transactional communication theory: the…

This study aimed at assessing the relationships between the structures of the teaching occupation and teacher training institutions and the personality characteristics of teachers in Israel. The hypothesis considered was that recruitment by self-selection would promote an image of conservatism by bringing into teaching people with matched…

Viewing personality as the ability to elicit consistent reactions from others, individuals classified on Moltola's History of Interpersonal Distance questionnaire were expected to elicit different amounts of nodding and smiling from an interviewer. As predicted, low distance individuals elicited more smiling from one of two interviewers, but no…

Results indicate that race is an important determinant of white children's social responses to a female adult stranger. For every type of behavior there was a significant race effect on at least one of the indices used to measure it. But the presence or absence of physical handicap did not itself influence subjects' responses. (Author/RC)

The author, the editor of the "issues and dialogue" section, reviews the literature on elementary school counseling, before he leaves his editorial position. He discusses the issues faced by counselors in the past and predicts the problem they will face in the future. (SE)

The study examined the relationship between Rotter's concept of locus of control and certain constructs from Holland's theory. Primary and secondary vocational types, and consistent and inconsistent patterns were established. Individuals with consistent patterns were significantly more internally controlled than those with inconsistent patterns.…

Community college students took a variety of personality and sex attitude questionnaires. Results suggest that students in a conservative area who favor liberal sex roles tend to be loners, having a low opinion of themselves and others. They are outspoken, ambitious, and are quick to challenge the laws of society. (Author)

The results of this study indicated the extent to which the group structure of a sixth grade class was dependent on personality characteristics in the formation of acceptance and rejection patterns. (RC)

The Trent Attribution Profile provides measures of locus of control and stability which can be further partitioned into individual attribution elements (ability, effort, task difficulty, luck). Reliability and validity data are reported. (Author/JKS)

The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule was used to examine the relation of the sex role stereotypes held by college men and women to the objective measurement of these stereotyped characteristics. Subjects perceived numerous differences between the average female and male, but very few differences between the ideal female and male. (Author/EB)

This study investigated the relationship between internal and external locus of control in subjects in a verbal learning experiment. As hypothesized, the lack of freedom of choice was associated with decreased recall in internals. Being able to choose material lead to faster learning for both internals and externals. (Editor/RK)

In order to evaluate the efficacy of a human relations training program for parents of personality-disorder preadolescent boys, families were randomly assigned to four experimental groups. Significant differences between groups at post-testing were found on four dependent variables: (1) empathy, (2) warmth, (3) genuineness of parents, and (4)…