This study was undertaken to develop an affective, small-group experience for helping children cope with death and to investigate the effectiveness of the experience in reducing children's anxieties about death. The generally positive results suggest that affective death education experiences such as this one should be made available to children.…

The SET program's purpose is to teach effective communicating styles so that students can improve interpersonal communications with friends, parents, teachers, and others. Topics covered include nonverbal communication, attending behavior, feelings in communication, listening behavior, and communication responding and sending styles. The program…

This study investigated similarities and differences of response by male and female counselors-in-training to clients of their own and opposite sex. The Counseling Response Instrument (CRI) was administered to 127 participants. Although different response patterns were found, results were not in the direction of traditional sex-role stereotyping.…

This study investigated the relationship between teacher referral and pupil self-referral relative to perceived school adjustment of 417 4th grade pupils. The results suggest that a significant relationship exists between teacher referral and pupil self-referral. (Author)

Problem-solving and creativity measures were administered to 127 gifted New York City school children from grades 4-6, in an attempt to relate these cognitive variables to affective traits of locus of control, self-esteem, and tolerance of ambiguity. No sex differences were obtained on the affective tasks. (Author)

The role of affective and associative meaningfulness in the learning styles of Chicanos and Anglos was examined. Chicano and Anglo undergraduates (N=64) were compared on learning of affectively and associatively assessed consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams. Chicanos differed significantly from Anglos in affective learning scale. (Author)

Investigated variations in conceptual complexity level of counselor and client on counselor attraction to the client. Counselor trainees rated attractiveness of clients following two counseling analogue tasks in which the client was depicted as exhibiting high or low conceptual level. More complex clients are more attractive across both levels.…

Compares scores on the Omnibus Personality Inventory by groups of relatively effective and ineffective trainees. Trainees completed tests prior to first practicum experience and were evaluated by practicum supervisors at the end of each practica. Data revealed significant differences in personality characteristics of the groups. (Author)

Subjects received falsified psychological test results that were discrepant with their own reports on self-referring attitudes. Both female and male subjects changed their self-reports more when the interpreter was of their own sex. (Author)

Performance of norms group on Reading and Arithmetic subtests of WRAT was compared with that of a representative national sampling. Systematic differences were found between the two data sets, and effects of these differences on current norms were illustrated. Norms tend to underestimate subject's achievement level relative to general population.…

The present study assessed the extent to which kindergarten children's performance on the Bender-Gestalt Test is related to sex and sociocultural variables and to children's social behavior. Two distinctly different Israeli populations were included: the Druze and the Jews. Significant correlations between perceptual indicators and social…

Belief in right to terminate medical care in case of irreversible terminal illness is analyzed by age, education, health, and attitudes to patient rights. Although age is related to supporting right to halt treatment, with those over 65 least supportive, relation to professional care in general has more explanatory power. (Author)

To study organized student activities, between late 1975 and early 1977 conversations were held at 41 colleges and universities with staff and students most directly concerned with student activities. The conversations focused on students' interests, needs, and participation; program evaluation; institutional support; and staff role. (Author)

The principal purpose of this study was to determine how major student affairs administrators (N=410) rated potential professional development activities. A second purpose was to assess the accuracy with which a group of faculty (N=35), involved in doctoral level programs in the field, understood practitioner preferences. (Author)

Formation of the Indiana University Alcohol Education Task Force brought together university students, staff, and faculty to discuss possible campus drinking problems and to plan, implement and evaluate an alcohol awareness program for students. The program appears effective in increasing knowledge about alcohol for at least a three month period.…