TO DETERMINE THE INFLUENCE OF MOTHER, FATHER, AND FORMER TEACHERS ON TEACHERS' SELF-CONCEPTION, 40 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS DESCRIBED THEMSELVES ON A SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL SCALE CONSISTING OF SETS OF SIMPLE ADJECTIVE PAIRS, SUCH AS WARM-COOL, STRONG-WEAK, AND RESPONSIVE-RESERVED. THESE WERE THEN COMPARED WITH THE TEACHERS' DESCRIPTIONS OF…

EDUCATIONAL CONTROL OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS RESTS ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THERE IS A SUBSTANTIVE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TEACHING FOR WHICH PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION IS NECESSARY. IF SO, THE TEACHER MUST BE EVALUATED NOT AS A PERSON BUT AS A FUNCTIONARY IN A SPECIAL SITUATION (THE CLASSROOM). FOR THAT PURPOSE, CRITERIA ARE NECESSARY. PERSONALITY…

WORK PRESSURES AMONG UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS INVOLVING QUANTITATIVE OVERLOAD AND QUALITATIVE OVERLOAD WERE STUDIED. MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE STUDY INVESTIGATED (1) THE EFFECTS OF OVERLOAD AND WORKLOAD ON JOB SATISFACTION, TENSION, AND SELF-ESTEEM, (2) THE EFFECTS OF THESE STATES ON CERTAIN INDICATORS OF HEALTH, AND (3) HOW THESE EFFECTS VARY WITH…

Recent studies have suggested that depressives process personal information in a biased and negative self-referential manner. Normative ratings on a variety of "depressed" and "nondepressed" adjectives were obtained to investigate the exact nature of information processing in depressives. Subjects rated adjectives on depressive content, imagery,…

Kelley's cube model of attributions (1967) can be applied to moral judgments to predict how individuals arrive at attributions concerning dispositional or environmental causes. The relative contributions of the three dimensions of Kelley's cube to attributions of morality and trustworthiness were tested by presenting 37 male and 77 female subjects…

According to sex stereotypes, women are more easily influenced than men. This stereotype may derive from perceivers' inferences that women occupy lower status positions than men, and the lower an individual's status in relation to other persons, the more he or she yields to their influence. Each subject (N=408) read a scenario describing a…

Loneliness has been viewed as a consequence of situational and/or environmental factors. Previous research has suggested that urban vs. rural people, less vs. more religiously-oriented people, and housewives not employed outside the home experience the greatest sense of isolation and loneliness. To test this hypothesis, data were collected from…

The purpose of this research was to determine how interactive style influences effectiveness and interpersonal attraction in groups. After college student volunteers completed the Communicator Style Measure (CSM), 72 subjects were selected from three style profiles and assigned to triads that contained high, mid, and low communication style…

Children in five second grade classrooms were exposed to an educational intervention designed to facilitate their moral development. Compared to a control group, they showed statistically significant growth in the following variables: role taking, intentionality, positive justice, punishment and donating behavior. Correlational analyses revealed…

The development of a model that would provide organized direction in describing the "competent teacher" is discussed. In a joint effort of practicing teachers and college of education personnel, the parameters for identifying behaviors of effective teachers were established. Six areas of competency were used--intellectual, personality, teaching…

This paper reports results of a follow-up telephone survey of the job turnover rates of 20 male and 20 female day care teachers and 20 male engineers who had previously participated in a study of sex-role attitudes, behaviors and personality traits. (The teachers were initially matched for age, education and day care center, and the engineers were…

The degree of agreement between the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) and the Personality Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) in assigning sex role categories was investigated by administering both instruments to undergraduate education majors. As a result of scoring, subjects were classified as androgynous, masculine, feminine, or undifferentiated. It was…

The paper describes a study of the relationship of personality and family variables to the capacity of 42 families to care for their handicapped infants. The predictor variables included two distinct measures of commitment as well as measures of consensus, resources, boundary permeability and locus of control. Outcome measures were the child's…

Intended for parents of children with cleft lip and cleft palate, the booklet provides an overview of the condition. Addressed are the following topics (sample subtopics in parentheses): prenatal development and birth defects (facial development); possible causes of cleft lip/cleft palate (common misconceptions, genetic factors, environmental…

THIS STUDY OF 1030 (10 PERCENT) OF THE UNIVERSITY-ELIGIBLE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES (1961) COMPARES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 612 GOING TO ONE OF THE FIVE UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES AND THE 418 GOING TO JUNIOR COLLEGE. HIGH SCHOOL AND FIRST-SEMESTER COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS AS WELL AS APTITUDE SCORES WERE AVAILABLE FOR MOST OF THEM, AND 885 RETURNED A 136-ITEM…