Explored the relationship between vocational needs and experiential factors and constructed a weighted biographical information form to predict vocational needs. Analysis showed the utility of this form as a measure of vocational needs. (Author/BEF)

Examined the psychometric properties of the Peer Nomination Inventory of Depression (PNID). Reliability proved highly acceptable. Content validity was determined by experts' judgments. Subjects with high PNID scores exhibited depressed intellectual functioning, poor social behavior, and diminished ebullience. (Author)

Couples completed questionnaires designed to test assumptions of the Spouse Observation Checklist. The assumption that the checklist represents the universe of marital pleasing and displeasing events received some support. Data did not support the assumption that couples can reliably observe their own behavior. (Author)

Two independent dimensions emerged as underlying participants' ratings of psychotherapy sessions, a depth/value dimension, and a smoothness/ease dimension. Clients and therapists showed moderately high agreement in how they described sessions on these two dimensions, indicating that both reacted in part to objectively observable features of the…

A classroom observation scale designed to be used in the observation and recording of an individual student's behavior and the teacher's response to the behavior is presented. (Author/PHR)

A Children's Depression Rating Scale (CDRS) was devised and tested on 30 inpatient children (6 to 12 years old) in a medical hospital. A high correlation was found between global ratings by two psychiatrists of severity of depression and scores on the CDRS. Journal availability: American Academy of Pediatrics, P.O. Box 1034, Evanston, IL 60204.…

Presents two scales which attempt to measure two distinct aspects of consistency of parental behavior, Inconsistent Parental Discipline Scale and Parental Disagreement on Expectations of the Child Scale. The paper concludes with citations of reported research utilizing these measures. (Author/BEF)

A scale (Managerial Attitudes toward Women Executives Scale -- MATWES) provides reliability and validity measures regarding managerial attitudes toward women executives. It employs a projective test for item generation and uses a panel of women executives as Q-sorters to select items. The Scale and its value in minimizing researcher bias in its…

It was predicted that external Ss in the structured group would rate the leader and the group more positively than would internal Ss, and that internal Ss in the unstructured group would rate the leader and the group more positively than would external Ss. (Author)

Attempts to derive more specific clinical information contributed by the experimental scales, (the Pd and Ma, used for compiling profiles of abusive females and abusive males, and the OH, used for evaluating hostility), which would contribute greater psychological understanding of maltreating parents. (Author/RK)

Evaluated was the use of the Primary Grade Retarded-Trainable Children's Referral and Behavior Rating Form with 36 retarded children attending a center offering evaluation and intensive short term training prior to educational or residential placement. (DB)

Attempts to better understand parent-child relationships in Thailand by constructing a scale concerned with parental punishment as perceived by Thai preadolescents. (Author/RK)

This study examined the patterns of acquisition of social, communication, and daily living skills for children with autism and compared the patterns to children with mental retardation and controls by quantifying intradomain scatter on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales. Results found autistic development is deviant rather than delayed in…

Tested reliability and validity of an instrument designed to measure the strength of care, and justice as moral voices, in college students. Used 381 students in the study and found that the internal consistency and validity of the instrument were satisfactory. Construct validity was limited by the lack of other appropriate instruments. (RJM)