Examined social and psychological patterns of the adolescence of females who become adult suicide attempters. Obtained life histories of 50 adult female suicide attempters and personal documents written during adolescence. Identified two patterns: Cheap Thrills pattern of defiance, rebelliousness, acting-out, drug use, and indiscriminate…

For 109 graduate students beginning their first semester of practice teaching at the elementary school level, the concurrent validity of five subscales of the measure of academic self-concept entitled Dimensions of Self-Concept was found relative to each of three criterion scales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. (Author/LMO)

Investigated the frequency of and reasons for college students' (N=342) procrastination on academic tasks. A high percentage of students reported problems with procrastination. Results indicated that procrastination is not solely a deficit in study habits or time management but involves a complex interaction of behavioral, cognitive, and affective…

The Beck Depression Inventory was administered to 35 outpatients diagnosed as primary generalized anxiety disorders and 101 outpatients diagnosed as primary major-depression and dysthymic disorders. A backward stepwise-discriminant analysis revealed that Sadness and Loss of Libido were the only two symptoms that meaningfullly distinguished between…

Data from study of dominance in alcoholics' marriage (N=8 couples) revealed little support for contention that alcoholics are submissive or less influential than their spouses. Alcohol may reduce discrepancy between alcoholics' perceptions of their influencing ability and their actual performance, supporting models of alcoholism and marriage which…

Interviewed 11 families who had experienced the death of a family member to identify symptomatic behavior of children's anniversary reaction to the death and to differentiate normal, predictable reactions from pathological ones. Results showed that children often experience anniversary reactions which involve remembering rather than reliving. (NRB)

Compared personal characteristics of 80 counseling clients with elevated 2-4 (Depression-Psychiatric Deviate) scales on their Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and 109 clients without elevations. Results indicated that clients with 2-4 elevations were significantly more depressed, had lower self-esteem, and were more likely to come from…

War is a stressful social condition that can be considered a form of child abuse. The holocaust experience, Vietnam, and World War II have all had significant effects on children's emotions and behavior. Problems that arise from these traumatic events are explored. (DF)

Children must face the reality of death and learn to cope with grief. Suggestions for helping children deal with death and grief are given. (DF)

Explores how recent research on the hemispheres of the brain might be applied to education. (HOD)

Tested Hartmann's (1973) hypothesis that consistent short sleepers tend to be nonworriers while long sleepers tend to worry. Indian college students (N=50) classified as long or short sleepers took the Hindi version of Sinha Anxiety Scale. Results showed short sleepers had higher levels of anxiety, questioning Hartmann's results. (JAC)

Presents a method of discourse analysis applied to the discrimination of genuine from simulated suicide notes used in previous studies. Reported significant differences among language measures as well as the results of a multiple discriminant analysis using the discourse analysis. A language profile of the suicidal individual is given. (JAC)

This study looks at the influence of worldview on long-term survivors of loss and the subsequent identity these survivors assume years after the formal grieving process has occurred. Emphasis is placed on the perspective survivors develop over time. Information from nearly 80 survivors of childhood loss indicated that there are certain patterns in…

The adaptive style theory proposes that given a sustained aversive maternal control experience children will come to adopt one of two perceptual orientations toward evaluative cues. This postulate was tested by exposing 78 late adolescent males to an array of evaluative words which they were told came from a maternal source. As predicted,…