Background: An increasing number of youth are being diagnosed with, and treated for, bipolar disorder (BD). Controversy exists about whether youth with non-episodic irritability and symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be considered to have a developmental presentation of mania. Method: A selective review of the…

Individual and family characteristics that predict resilience among children exposed to domestic violence (DV) were examined. Mother-child dyads (n = 190) were assessed when the children were 2, 3, and 4 years of age. DV-exposed children were 3.7 times more likely than nonexposed children to develop internalizing or externalizing problems.…

The cultivation of curiosity and interest in children for their own pleasure and for their place in the world around them is a significant factor in each student's well-being as well as the future of society. Many educators think that schools no longer provide a curriculum that develops curiosity, creativity, and personal interests in young…

Objective: Alcohol abuse among college students is associated with a quality of life burden. The current study replicated and extended previous research on protective behavioral strategies (PBS) by examining relationships between PBS use and negative alcohol-related consequences. Method: A national sample of 29,792 U. S. college students who…

This book on the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) in personality assessment emphasizes a client-centered, interactive method of interpretation by means of which the test taker become the primary beneficiary of the MMPI assessment rather than the clinician. The phenomenological and empirical correlates of the 13 basic…

Presents a tabular formation that easily provides omitted-item scale membership to evaluate potential profile distortion in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The table permits scale-specific statements in clinical reports, rather than general notes about overall profile lowering, and can enhance the interpretation of omissions. (BH)

Interactions of 33 untrained female students with hospital patients were recorded, sampled, and rated using the Truax Accurate Empathy Scale (AE). AE ratings were correlated with student personality measures from the EPPS and MMPI. Depression and Psychasthenia scales of the MMPI were negatively and significantly correlated with AE ratings. Changes…

Discusses personality traits and attitudes as vital factors in the performance of salesmen and the fact that attempts to change these factors are likely to run afoul of a number of complications. (EB)

In a replication of earlier findings by Kroger, the hypothesis was tested that the situation affects test performance by generating a set of role demands. Community college students described themselves on the SVIB, Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, and Welsh Figure Preference Test after being exposed to implicit social cues intended to induce…

A book concerning the "personal premises of personality is reviewed. (DB)

Makes explicit a reconceptualization of the nature of emotion that over the past decade has fostered the study of emotion regulation. Documents the stability of two emotional dispositions: irritability and inhibition. (RH)

Teachers generally agree that curiosity is a good thing that needs to be fostered: that the student who is curious is more desirous of knowledge, more attentive, and more interested in learning than the student who is less inquisitive. However, there are instances of curiosity which harbor a blamable desire for knowledge. The medieval philosopher…