Available from: Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091. A followup study of 60 children (from kindergarten through third grade) in a middle to low socioeconomic area identified factors which qualitatively differentiate educationally high-risk and non risk children. (BD)

Examined with 15 mothers and their handicapped infants was the influence of infant behavioral expressions of affect on maternal caretaking behaviors. (IM)

Presents a developmental study of changes in infant attachment behaviors. Five groups of female infants, 8, 11, 14, 19, and 24 months of age, were observed during varying types of separation experiences. Changes in proximity behaviors and contact behaviors were analyzed. (BD)

Findings indicate the Beck Depression Inventory is a valid instrument for use in a college population. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient between the inventory and psychiatric estimate fell to .30 in a second sample in which one-14 days intervened between administration of the inventory and the psychiatric interview (N=27). (Author)

Available from: Special Education in Canada, Dave Muir, Subscription Manager, 12 Doucett Place, Scarborough, Ontario M1G 3M2. Five affective educational resources are described for teachers. (CL)

College students were questioned concerning their attitudes on the environmental movement and the causes and remedies of environmental degradation. Findings showed that students are aware of the problems, but do not accept the ecologists views about the needs for restructuring consumption and production patterns. (AJ)

Describes development of a situation-specific trait-state test for affective responses. Form One contains 20 situations to which subjects described responses on 16 scales for each situation. Study Two assessed reliability of these scales, sex differences, and trait-state relationships. Five validity studies are described. (Author)

Reports relationship between asymmetries in frontal-brain electrical activity and individual differences in affective response in 35 ten-month-old females. Stranger-approach, mother-approach, and maternal-separation experiences were presented while an electroencephalogram (EEG) from scalp regions was recorded and facial and other behavioral…

Explored infants' capability to request a partner's participation in social games. Nineteen infants who were 9, 12, 15, and 18 months old played games for 30 minutes in a laboratory setting with an adult partner. Children's nonverbal behavior and vocalizations after the adult discontinued play were compared with behavior during game-playing…

Assessed the interaction and cognitive styles associated with negative affect for husbands and wives. Wives' negative affect was directly related to confronting the problem and inversely related to their conciliation attempts. Husbands' negative affect was inversely related to both spouses' attempts to be conciliatory and to the wives' viewing the…

Uses a face-needs model of emotional expressiveness (factors needed to maintain a positive, public self-image) to explain and predict the degree to which an emotion will be expressed or understated. Reports that the preferential hierarchy for disclosing emotions is largely similar regardless of friendship level or gender. (MM)

Task-centered interactions of 12 mother-infant pairs observed between the infants' 14th and 22nd month indicated that infants become aware of their competence in their second year. Five critical aspects of the children's behavior are discussed with respect to mother's influence, action as context for competence, and developmental characteristics…

Adults inexperienced with mental retardation, parents of retarded children, and teachers of the retarded children viewed slides of retarded and nonretarded children whose facial expressions depicted happiness, anger, sadness, and/or neutrality. Inexperienced adults identified fewer expressions of retarded children than did parents who, in turn,…

Examined how an unstable rather than stable view of dispositions--that is, personality traits and abilities--affected the motivational consequences of 7- and 8-year-old children's success and failure experiences, and their self-confidence and impressions of other persons. (SKC)

Study measured teachers' and children's facial, verbal and physical affectionate behaviors in seven day care centers during a variety of daily routines. Affectionate behavior occurred much less frequently than other social interaction. Implications for day care programming and research are discussed. (Author/RWB)