Although the suicide rate of young adults has increased dramatically, few empirical studies examine suicide in the normal population. To examine suicidal thinking and behavior in a college student sample, 43 female and 23 male college students responded to an adverse life event scenario and then filled out an extended questionnaire regarding…

The basic tenet of the Person-Environment (P*E) Congruence model posits that well-being, as one index of adjustment, is dependent on the degree of fit between the perceived environment and the preferred environment. While the literature is clear regarding the relationship of P*E Congruence and well-being, one theoretical issue that needs to be…

The present study investigated the efficiency of various existing measures, mainly psychological tests, for predicting job performance of mentally retarded workers in a sheltered occupational shop. Results indicated that existing measures are predictive of performance on some but not all jobs in a sheltered workshop. (Author)

The use of the regression equation derived from the Anglo-American sample to predict grades of Mexican-American students resulted in overprediction. An examination of the standardized regression weights revealed a significant difference in the weight given to the Scholastic Aptitude Test Mathematics Score. (Author/BB)

The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), a structured job analysis questionnaire that provides for the analysis for individual jobs in terms of 187 job elements, has been found in previous studies to be useful as the basis for predicting the mean test scores of incumbents on a sample of jobs in terms of the nine tests of the General Aptitude…

Reports an experimental effort to determine the validity of the proposition in deviance theory which holds that to label a person is to produce a change in the expectancies one holds for his performance. (Author/DEP)

Author attempted to measure the creative potential of young women comparing them to young men. (RK)

Research supported by the Scottish Council for Research in Education.

The Nairn report, The Reign of ETS, has charged that the major college admissions tests administered by Educational Testing Service (ETS) have undue influence on admissions to higher education, and that the tests have little value in predicting future academic performance. Nairn's claims that the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is a poor predictor…

Feminine sex-role behavior, which includes deferential, nonassertive behavior, may stem from women's low status position and powerlessness. In a study of male and female college students, perceptions of the acceptability of assertive behavior were examined as a function of: (1) sex and status characteristics of assertive speakers; (2) sex of the…

The concurrent validity of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (BTBC) was investigated by comparing it to two tests of linguistic abilities (Test of Auditory Comprehension of Language--TACL--and the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory--CELI) and five Piagetian tests of cognitive abilities (space, numeration, seriation, time, and classification) with…

THE VARIOUS WEAKNESSES, DIFFICULTIES, AND "COMMON CONFUSIONS" THAT HAVE CHARACTERIZED THE CRITERIA USED IN TEACHER SELECTION PROCEDURES ARE IDENTIFIED, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT ARE MADE. TEN STEPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF PROCEDURES ARE OUTLINED--FROM IDENTIFICATION OF LOCALLY VARYING EXPECTATIONS ARISING FROM VARYING VALUES…

A variety of techniques was used to assess the validity of the Descriptive Tests of Mathematics Skills (DTMS) for making placement decisions. The DTMS is a group of four tests (Arthmetic Skills, Elementary Algebra Skills, Intermediate Algebra Skills, and Functions & Graphs) that was designed to help colleges place each admitted student in the…