Individual differences in fear of success were measured for 98 female and 33 male college students. For females, fear of success was significantly related to performance decrement on masculine but not feminine tasks, with the relationship accounting for approximately 6 percent of the variance. (Author)

Tested the California Psychological Inventory Socialization scale's dimensionality on three groups of male and female, criminal or noncriminal subjects. The fit of a one-factor model for all three groups was tested in a simultaneous factor analysis for several populations, and good fit was obtained. (Author)

Development of a cognitive behavior therapy approach to anger management is presented with results of its application to a hospitalized depressive with severe anger problems. The treatment approach follows a procedure called "stress inoculation," which consists of three basic stages: cognitive preparation, skill acquisition and…

A measure of sex guilt was administered to clients of a university problem pregnancy counseling service who were planning to have abortions and to a group of sexually active nonpregnant university coeds. Sex guilt was found to be significantly higher for the abortion patients than for the nonpregnant group. (Author)

Expectancy instructions were introduced six times during the four-week treatment, and effectiveness of these instructions was demonstrated with independent nonreactive measures of subjects' expectancies. An analysis of self-report, behavioral, and unobtrusive measures of snake anxiety revealed significant main effects for instructions, with…

High and low general-self-esteem subjects performed a series of anagrams on which they either appeared to succeed or fail or received little evaluative feedback. Their persistence at a subsequent set of anagrams was assessed. Following initial failure low-self-esteem subjects persisted less than high-self-esteem subjects. (Author)

Explores usefulness of a two-stage diagnostic system. The proposed diagnostic system warrants trail application in a real-life setting, although 85 percent of the initially unclassified subjects and 79 percent of the random data records were also identified. (Author)

Examines differences between male and female adolescents on various dimensions of symptomatology and factors related to hospitalization. Females had significantly poorer social and family histories than males, yet they had less severe symptoms at admission and discharge. (Author)

Involved a comparison between therapists with high client attrition rates versus therapists with low attrition rates on selected demographic and client-perceived initial-session therapy-process variables. A number of the therapy process variables significantly differentiated the two groups. (Author)

Relationship between the therapist personality variables of empathy and authoritarianism and the prognosis that a therapist makes was investigated using 25 PhD psychologists as subjects. A positive relationship was found between therapist empathy and the prognosis variables dealing with perception of degree of disturbance and overall prognosis.…

Verified the relationship between affective states and visual behavior in nonpsychotics. Elated individuals engaged in more total eye contact and had longer but less frequent eye-contact gazes than normals and depressed subjects had less total eye contact and had fewer eye-contact gazes than individuals in a neutral affective state. (Author)

Attendees at workshops and lectures were asked to complete a questionnaire which assessed the following: 1) First death experience, 2) Present conceptualization of death, 3) Anticipated reactions to a personal terminal illness, 4) Resources in managing one's own death, and 5) Difficulties experienced in working with dying persons. (Author)

Examined was the effectiveness of an assessment and training instrument with 32 mentally retarded adults in a sheltered workshop. (CL)

This article presents 10 examples of research that illustrate applications of research to real needs and the competent practitioner's need for research skills. Each example includes a description of a project that served as the research opportunity, the prompt that triggered the research, and the research activity. (MBR)

The Swedish National Board of Universities and Colleges' program of research on higher education is described, and data are given on the trends in grant distribution and related publications by research topic and discipline. (MSE)