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)

Parents (n=64) rated their four- and five-year-old children's positive and negative behaviors so as to investigate interparent agreement. Results indicate low to moderate interparent correlations across all four scales. Absolute differences between pairs of mothers' and fathers' ratings were large and consistent across instruments. (RJM)

After identification of an alternative model of the School Social Behavior Scales, the invariance of the new model was tested with half of the original standardization sample (n=2,047). Both scales performed well and resulted in models very similar to those originally proposed by the author of the instrument. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Examined relationship among Conners Teacher Rating Scale, Revised Conners Parent Rating Scale, Revised Behavior Problem Checklist, and Freedom-from-Distractibility (FD) factor score of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised for 135 children and adolescents referred to learning disabilities clinic. Results appear to corroborate evidence…

Examined the level of depressive symptomatology in 100 learning-disabled and normal fourth through sixth grade students, using the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) and behavior ratings by classroom teachers. Significant positive correlations were found between learning-disabled students and CDI scores and between CDI scores and teacher…

Adaptive behavior ratings of children with mental retardation by either parents (N=22) or teachers (N=22) were compared using the Adaptive Behavior Scale--School Edition. Findings indicated no significant differences in parents' and teachers' ratings in the categories assessed or in the importance ascribed to the behaviors evaluated. (Author/DB)

A questionnaire administered to 90 profoundly deaf postsecondary students in the third week of their first academic quarter revealed factors which predicted end-of-quarter probation/suspension correctly for 60 percent of the subjects. Discriminating variables included negative affect regarding their school, negative high school experience, and…