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Morlock, David A.; Mason, Barbara – Educ Training Ment Retarded, 1969
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Exceptional Child Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutionalized Persons
Corbett, Pamela D.; Rich, Alexander R. – 1981
Efforts to understand mediating and maintaining factors associated with dysfunction of alcoholics have produced competing explanations and conflicting, overlapping constructs. To clarify the relationship between mental health and attributional patterns among women, the attributional patterns of alcoholic, depressed, and control females in response…
Descriptors: Achievement, Alcoholism, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes
Holman, Thomas B. – 1981
Social scientists have been studying marriage for several decades and have identified many factors related to the quality of marriage. A longitudinal study of 57 engaged couples was conducted while they were college students and after they were married to test parts of Lewis and Spainer's recently proposed theory of marital quality. It was…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Longitudinal Studies
Umansky, Warren; And Others – 1980
The guide offers a means for evaluating specific learning characteristics of visually impaired children at three levels: prereadiness (prekindergarten), readiness (kindergarten), and academic (primary grades). Items are designed to be administered by informal observation and structured testing. Score sheets contain space for reporting two testing…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods
Ting-Toomey, Stella – 1982
A study analyzed the verbal interactions of married couples in high, moderate, and low marital satisfaction groups to determine whether (1) the interaction processes within the three satisfaction groups differed and (2) there were different communication patterns that characterized the interaction processes of the groups. Subjects were 34 young…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Paul, Wayne L. – 1977
The leadership variables of "consideration" and "structure" have been identified as two important factors in previous research. To obtain information on how chief student personnel administrators (CSPA) viewed the supervision of professional subordinates in large, public universities, a nationwide survey was taken during the 1978 school year.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Employer Employee Relationship
Cook, Paul F.; And Others – 1982
The Educational Supervision Program is designed to define the role of teacher supervisors and to identify and teach the skills needed for effective supervision. The program is based on social learning theory, which assumes that behavior change depends on the presence of three factors: (1) belief in the ability to change; (2) knowledge of probable…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Conflict Resolution, Interpersonal Competence
Golding-Mather, Jacqueline M.; Singer, Jerome L. – 1981
Theoretical perspectives on depression have suggested that three general orientations (self-critical, dependency, and inefficacy) characterize moods and that a depressed person's cognitive structure is different. College students (N=73) completed questionnaires to explore phenomenological correlates of normal mood states which might have…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Depression (Psychology), Higher Education
Boucher, Robert L. – 1981
Sport and athletic environments provide evidence that the characteristics of the situation in which a leader is found are closely linked to the degree of success that the leader will enjoy. Four situational or "contingency" theories attempt to delineate the relationship between leadership style and effective results: (1) Fiedler's Contingency…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Cooperation, Decision Making Skills, Goal Orientation
Bugental, Daphne B.; And Others – 1980
Sixty undergraduate women interacted in dyads with female experimental confederates in a study of the interactive effects of social attributions and environmental controllability on interpersonal assertion. The environment was systematically varied on two dimensions of social power or control: (1) social responsiveness of the confederate, and (2)…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Attribution Theory, Behavioral Science Research, Communication Research
King, Viola D.; Martin, Bettye H. – 1981
This study investigated the relationship between the prior degree of contact of student teachers with children and the anxiety level of the student teachers before and during actual contact with children in the classroom. Subjects of the study were student teachers beginning classroom teaching experiences in the spring semester before graduation.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Techniques, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Annis, Lawrence V. – 1976
Encounter groups represent an attempt to apply group methods for the enhancement of personal awareness and the acceleration of personal growth among "normal" people. The extent to which an individual's moral values are modified by disclosure and discussion of these values in an encounter group setting was investigated with a group of nine…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Group Dynamics, Individual Development, Interpersonal Competence
Burgess, Joanne S.; Dermott, R. Allan – 1978
A survey of 478 educators in Maine public elementary schools revealed their assessments of the most useful skills for elementary principals to have. The superintendents, teachers, and teaching and non-teaching principals who responded to the survey ranked the importance of each of 54 technical, conceptual, and human-relations competency items. The…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications
Sorensen, Susan M. – 1981
Despite the fact that group work in speech communication classes is assigned to aid students in learning to work productively in groups, there are many people who avoid it and who express a sincere dislike for any group activity in the academic setting. This negative initial reaction toward group work was studied in order to compile a taxonomy of…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Communication, College Students, Group Dynamics
Student Journals in the Communication Classroom: A Reassessment through Grounded Theory Development.
DeWine, Sue – 1978
College students in three interpersonal communication classes, all taught by the same instructor, participated in a study designed to develop a grounded theory of the effects of journal keeping on communication effectiveness perceptions. Two classes, comprised of a total of 58 students, were required to maintain semistructured student journals for…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Research, Educational Theories, Evaluation Methods
