Admissions interview data and college academic credentials of five classes of University of Missouri-Columbia medical students were evaluated. Students judged by admissions interviewers to have high levels of maturity, nonacademic achievement, motivation, or rapport were two to three times as likely to receive outstanding internship…

The rationale and development of a new measure of five methods of handling interpersonal conflict (competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, and accomodating), which attempts to control for the social desirability response bias is described. The instrument--the Management of Differences Exercise, or the MODE instrument--is briefly compared…

The Rasch Model was applied to the results of an academic self-concept test administered to junior high school students, and some items were eliminated. The resulting scale possessed several properties permitting its use in the measurement of school-induced change in self-concept. The questionnaire is appended. (Author/MV)

Intelligence and academic achievement scores of 180 emotionally disturbed adolescents were related to the personality profiles via a canonical variate analysis. The emotionally disturbed adolescent who is low in ego strength, tense, guilt prone, sensitive, shy, and submissive tended to be more intelligent and demonstrate higher academic…

Examined with 254 children (grade 1 through grade 8) and 13 teachers in a rural Maine elementary school were the relationships between teachers' ratings of children's behavior on the Behavior Problem Checklist and children's self-reported personality source traits on age-appropriate Personality Questionnaires. (Author/IM)

The study compared need values and locus of control, as measured by Rotter's I-E Scale. The locus of control variable showed an already noted trend towards greater externality. (Author)

This paper reviews research on physical attractiveness from a dialectical-interactional perspective and attempts to examine the relationship between outer appearance and inner psychological characteristics from a developmental perspective. (BD)

Relationships between children's self esteem, certainty of self esteem appraisal, and intellectual achievement responsibility were examined in boys and girls at the sixth grade and tenth grade levels with use of the Piers-Harris Children's Self Concept Scale and the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire. (MS)

Compared children in gifted, French Immersion, and regular classes with respect to self-concept, anxiety, and security, using the North York Self Concept Inventory, the Strait-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, and the Institute of Child Study Security Test. Gifted students, particularly girls, proved most anxious, had lower self-concepts, and…

To learn the order of importance managers place on different areas of knowledge, skills, and attributes possessed by college graduates, a questionnaire was sent to all members of the American Society of Personnel Administrators in Hawaii. People-oriented characteristics were ranked more important than business or quantitative skills. (CT)

The study examined differences between 23 younger (ages 5-11) and 32 older (ages 12-19) children diagnosed with overanxious disorder (OAD). Expression of OAD varied by developmental level, with older children more frequently exhibiting major depression or simple phobia, while younger children had coexisting separation anxiety or attention deficit…

Examination of children with disabled siblings reveals that nondisabled children may treat their siblings more kindly and spend more time caring for them than do children with nondisabled siblings. Their experiences may produce more worries and anxieties; however, they also may develop more tolerance and humanitarian concerns. (Author/BJV)

Assigned subjects as groups or individuals to communicator role in Prisoner's Dilemma. Also assigned conciliatory, tough, or individualistic styles to subjects in representing constituents in the interaction. Conciliatory style was successful in all-conciliatory groups. Conciliatory members of mixed groups were unsuccessful in moderating their…

The Psychotic Behavior Rating Scale uses a factor analysis approach to aid in differential diagnosis of autism, schizophrenia, mental retardation, aphasia, and other severe handicaps. The scale is compared with five existing qualitatively developed instruments, noting similarities and dissimilarities among the various scales. (Author/JDD)

A study was conducted at Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria) to determine whether library science students were less assertive than their counterparts in the law and liberal arts schools. An attitude index administered to 100 undergraduate students showed no significant differences among the assertion levels of the three groups. The questionnaire is…