Educable mentally retarded adolescent boys and girls and nonretarded age peers were contrasted on the Behavior Problems Checklist. Mentally retarded students showed more Coonduct Disorder (aggression and disruption) and Personality Problem (anxiety and withdrawal) kinds of maladjustment. Results are discussed in eight of prior findings and needed…

Explores the relationship between arguing and verbal aggression and the benefits accruing from argumentativeness. Found that students who are highly argumentative are not easily provoked to using verbal aggression in an argument, supporting the view that verbal aggression often stems from a lack of skill in arguing. (PD)

Administered the TEMAS (Tell Me a Story) test to 73 public school and 210 clinical Puerto Rican children. Story content was scored for nine personality functions and descriptive indexes. Results indicated internal consistency and interrater reliability. TEMAS indexes significantly discriminated between school and clinical samples. (BH)

Proposes a conceptual framework for the examination of alcohol and drug use as employee responses to work environments. Discusses three sets of substance abuse antecedents: distancing forces, attractions, and constraints. Provides examples of these antecedents within the organizational setting and explores the dynamic interrelationships among…

Examined parental ratings of preschoolers referred for psychological evaluation due to management problems (N=48) and preschoolers who had never been referred for psychological services (N=48). Results showed significant differences between the groups in ratings of six temperament variables. Parental ratings were correlated only for the…

Relates writing apprehension to a variety of measures of self-esteem and personality in 13 separate studies. (HOD)

A course of study in social psychology should progress from the personal to the social. It should be organized around the study of four topics: (1) the boundaries of the self; (2) the relation between individuals; (3) communication between individuals; and (4) leadership and social power. (Author/RM)

The author empirically evaluates bias in construct validity and criterion-related validity of intelligence tests and bias in personality scales and concludes that little evidence exists to substantiate claims of bias for well-constructed, properly standardized tests. Therefore,, low-scoring minority or disadvantaged children need remedial and…

This study explored the relationship between self-esteem, the perception of competence, and actual competence when performance is attributed to oneself or to someone else. High-self-esteem and low-self-esteem subjects performed a concept-formation task and evaluated their performance. Later they either rerated their own performance or rated the…

Tests Holland's assertion that stability of vocational choice can be predicted from: (a) congruence of personality with chosen career; (b) differentiation of personality; and (c) internal consistency of personality characteristics. The relationship of three constructs to stability of choice of college major was studied among 167 university…

The relationships among sex of expressor, sex of judge, intensity of affect expressed, and the spontaneous attribution of emotionality were explored. (Editor)

An attempt was made to identify student characteristics which might lead to greater achievement for an individualized treatment. (Editor)

Hypotheses concerning the relationships among authoritarianism in personality, custodialism in pupil control ideology and autocracy in family ideology of elementary school educators were developed and tested. (Editor)

This study examined the relationship between dogmatism in beginning teachers and deference to bureaucratic norms of the school. (Editor)

This study investigated perceptions of conduct and personality indicators of elementary school age children as perceived characteristics of emotional disturbance. Teachers and school counselors did not distinguish between conduct and personality indicators, while the other professional groups demonstrated a significant preference for the…