This study examined research on children's block play, using content analysis to review 75 documents that focused on such play. Each document was coded by type (empirical study or nonempirical article) and by 15 topics and 76 subtopics grouped into 4 broad categories: (1) environment/ecology; (2) block play and the school curriculum; (3) block…

This study was designed to help determine whether there are gender differences in the psychological and moral development of traditional-age college students. Two hundred thirty-three first-year and graduating students were given the Student Development Task and Lifestyle Inventory (SDTLI) and the Defining Issues Test (DIT) to determine whether…

This paper addresses the need for gay and lesbian relationship research and theory and some of the directions such research and theory might take. It suggests academic research into gay and lesbian relationships is needed because these relationships are a fact of modern life and are different from heterosexual relationships, and because such…

Four evaluation techniques, illustrated with examples in the field, can be used to discover how people interact with their environment, what they like and dislike about it, and what kind of environment they would prefer. (Author/MF)

The present study endeavored to ascertain responsesof children to some of the forms of behavior previously assessed by adults and considered to be within the range of children's experience. (Author)

Article evaluated the creative abilities of men and women with specific accent of sex as a matter of decisive influence on creative output. (RK)

Personal growth in human potential laboratory participants was tested in the community college setting. When compared to a control group, laboratory participants made significant gains on four of twelve scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory. Participatng groups with high pretest variability tended to demonstrate the greatest growth. (Author)

The hypothesized curvilinear relationship between powerlessness and social activism was not supported; however, when social activism is defined as a nonviolent "within-the-system" intervention, there is a direct linear relationship between the variables--with the powerful students exhibiting a tendency to embrace this form of social activism.…

The factual basis for therapy and family advice urging "leveling" in the sense of giving fre expression to aggressive feelings is reviewed and results presented of a study which tested the hypothesis that verbal aggression is a substitute for physical aggression. Presented at National Council on Family Relations, 1973. (Author)

Utilizing the responses of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters to questions concerning family power and problem-solving processes, and the responses of husbands and wives to questions concerning the family division of labor, it is found that the perceptions of family reality vary systematically by both age and sex. (Author)

From socialization theory a relationship is hypothesized between sex-saliency of family and peer group context and level of sexual activity. The hypothesis is confirmed in the case of family context, but the relationship is shown to be curvilinear in the case of the peer group. (Author)

Presents the contrasting organismic-developmental perspective on transactions of men with their environments. Eight procedural principles are elaborated to guide studies of men-in-environment relations. These principles are then applied to the formulation of several different types of research problems and exemplified in one ongoing study.…

According to John Holland's typology, educational achievement is correlated with personality types in the following order (with all other things being equal): intellectual, social, artistic, conventional, enterprising, and realistic. This study does not support that hypothesis. (RWP)

This article describes the development of a new sex-role inventory that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characterize a person as masculine, feminine, or "androgynous" as a function of the difference between his or her endorsement of masculine and feminine personality…