The study investigated the responses of Chicanos, Blacks, and Anglos on the semantic differential to concepts related to sex and familial roles and to a series of questions related to sociocultural status. The overall pattern of results suggested that minority experience is more important than cultural experience in producing the observed…

A study showing that lexically equivalent words in two languages have different affective meanings, that affective intensity of dominant language words is greater than for second language equivalents, and that the difference is greatest for words with high affective meaning demonstrates that affective meaning is an important component of…

Six theoretical properties of the self as seen from an interactionist perspective are discussed in terms of their measurement implications. Suggestions are made about how such properties might be taken into account in deriving quantitative measures of certain characteristics of role/identities. (Author/MH)

Concepts associated with divorce, family, and self were rated. The observed conceptual/attitudinal changes indicate that a so-called didactic-educational course may have an impact over and beyond the mere acquisition of factual information. (Author)

Demonstrates that both scale-checking style and concept-scale interaction are crucial variables in research using the semantic differential method to assess semantic development. Eight children from each of grades K-5 and 16 adults (aged 17.5-68 years) served as subjects. (MP)

Causal statements from adults with learning disabilities and normally achieving adults were analyzed and organized within a linguistic taxonomy of causal semantic relations, and a relationship between Piagetian cognitive stages and verbal expressions of causality were identified. Piagetian principles were used to design assessment and intervention…

The effectiveness of using a set of models in two protein synthesis laboratory exercises accompanied by a series of two lectures on the topic was assessed. The purpose, procedure, example test items, the findings, and a discussion are included. (KR)

General practitioners (GPs) need advanced skills in geriatric assessment to be competent to treat the increasing number of elderly patients. Continuing medical education in geriatrics for GPs is heterogeneous, and not assessed for effectiveness. In this study we compared the educational effects of three geriatric post-graduate training methods on…

A frequent reason for teachers not making special provisions for a gifted child is that the child is "not fitting in socially." The conjecture that a psychological source of such negative affect has evolved along with human language was tested with a large sample (N = 377) of teachers in England, Scotland, and Australia who were…

Results do not support the general concensus of earlier researchers that whites generally respond more favorably than blacks to counseling and psychotherapy. Study concludes that for the black females the long term effects of group counseling are substantially superior. (Author/AM)

Change in adolescent female's perceptions of adolescent males was determined by pretesting three days prior to sexual integration of a residential school for delinquent females and posttesting two months after this event. Findings suggest that sexual integration of adolescent reform institutions is effective in avoiding sex-role diffusion. (GO)

This study attempted to assess ways in which a specifically designed course on homosexuality including seven groups of gay speakers affected attitudes of 18 advanced college students. The results indicated a significant change ina positive direction as predicted. These results are discussed in terms of Weinberg's theory of homophobia. (Author)

A semantic differential technique was used to determine the connotative meaning of specific grades to college students. The 161 upper division undergraduates rated each of three specific grades on 20 semantic differential items. Two descriptive questions were answered: (1) What are the basic dimensions of the connotative meanings of grades? (2)…