Results of a national survey of pupil expectations of teachers' classroom behaviors are analyzed according to respondents' race, sex, socioeconomic status, and fathers' occupations. (GW)

An introduction to a Special issue of the Journal of Social Issues (JSI) by the guest editor, which reviews psychology's concerns with race relations and race related issues during the fifties, sixties and seventies, summarizes past JSI issues pertinent to those issues, and introduces the ten articles in this issue. (Author/JM)

To determine whether or not blacks and whites are increasingly divergent in their political orientations, public opinion data from 13 separate national surveys conducted in 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971 (4 studies) and 1972 (2 studies) by the Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) of Princeton, New Jersey, were examined. (Author/JM)

This paper examines racial differences in life satisfaction for a national sample drawn from the 1973 social survey of the National Data Program for the Social Sciences conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. It is found that blacks were less satisfied with life than whites, although this phenomenon was found to be considerably less…

This experiment studied whether socioeconomic status indicators sufficiently represent those aspects of the home environment relevant to IQ. Home environment ratings for samples of ninth grade black and white middle class females were compared to the subjects' scores on an IQ measure, an achievement measure, and grade point average. (Author/JKS)

Data generated by 234 young black and white inmates in 1971 challenge the assumption that spoiled identity is a necessary, socially invariant outcome of deviant commitment and self-definition. For blacks, the relationship between criminal self-typing and stability and esteem is negative but inconsequential; for whites, the relationship is negative…

The finding that blacks' feelings of ability to influence governmental authority figures have increased as they have made gains in actual political power strongly suggests that social psychological states of minority groups may change substantially as those groups experience changes in life situations. (Author/AM)

Discusses the problem of youth unemployment and describes a study (utilizing metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area data gathered through the Current Population Survey during 1976) which focused on youth labor force participation and employment patterns. (WL)

Examined relationships among client's race, the type of problem for which a client is seeking counseling, and the client's preference for counselor characteristics. Results indicated that the patterns of preferences for counselor race did not seem to differ between black and white participants on the basis of type of client concern. (Author/ABB)

This study evaluated 16 hypotheses concerning possible sources of bias in test items on the Graduate Record Examination General Test. Ten of the hypotheses showed interactions between group membership and the item version indicating a differential effect of the item manipulation on the performance of Black and White examinees. (Author/LMO)

Responds to previous articles on counseling techniques of systematic desensitization, anxiety management training, rational restructuring, and stress inoculation training. Criticizes coginitive-behavioral researchers for not taking into consideration factors such as race, ethnicity, and culture in development of research paradigms. (NB)

Uses Boocock's model of the social context of education to compare divergent climates for Black students in two rural southern elementary schools. In both schools Black and White teachers and students use an assumed color blindness and a preoccupation with subject matter to mask differential treatment of Black students. (SKC)

Identifies four sources for recent declines in numbers of minority teachers and administrators: (1) overall decline in education majors; (2) decline in Black college students; (3) widening career options for Blacks--especially females; and (4) teacher competency tests. (SKC)

Explored Holland's congruency construct and effect of sex and race on Self-Directed Search response patterns in 29 black and 31 white undergraduates or postgraduate students enrolled in a Medical Education Preparatory Program. Results clearly support congruency of sample's code with the criterion code of Holland's sample, providing support for…

A study of 114 Black undergraduates in two predominantly White midwestern universities demonstrates that communication apprehension (CA) among Blacks appears to be an audience-based phenomenon. Black females scored lower than Black males on the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension-24 (PRCA-24). The higher the CA score, the higher the…