Final grades in an introductory psychology course were found to correlate significantly with a test representative of course content and ACT scores. (Author)

The validity and personality correlates of peer judgments of parole success were examined. Subjects judged as successes by their peers, in contrast to peer-judged failures, had significantly higher rates of parole success. Implications for application and research are noted. (Author)

The purpose of the research was to ascertain the effectiveness of academic aptitude measures, measures of school motivation, and life history factors as predictors of the accomplishments of high school seniors, attained outside their formal programs of study, measured by responses to the Talented Accomplishments Questionnaire. (Author)

Many researchers have studied predictors of adolescent substance use. One important predictor of substance use is the quality of the parent-child relationship. Most studies address the parent-child relationship unidimensionally. This study hypothesized that it is not use of a particular substance that can be predicted from a poor parent-child…

The most recent prescriptions for substance abuse prevention call for parent involvement in all phases of school and community programs, in addition to parent education programs. However, surprisingly little is known about the ways in which family variables influence patterns of adolescent substance use. This study examined a sample of families…

One recently developed parenting research model hypothesizes that parenting behavior and child adjustment are influenced by a number of divergent variables that operate through the component of the parent's personality that is related to the parenting role. In this model, the level of stress experienced by each parent results from a series of…

As a result of Freud's seminal postulations of the psychoanalytic bases for one's God-concept, it is a frequently accepted hypothesis that an individual's image of God is largely a reflection of experiences with and feelings toward one's own father. While such speculations as to an individual's phenomenological conceptions of God have an…

The overwhelming majority of research on environmental influences has concentrated on the social environment, to the relative neglect of the physical environment. This neglect is justified by an unvalidated hypothesis, namely that the physical environment must be mediated by social parameters in order to influence development. Two studies were…

Regression analysis is one of the more common analytic tools used by researchers. However, multicollinearity between the predictor variables can cause problems in using the results of regression analyses. Problems associated with multicollinearity include entanglement of relative influences of variables due to reduced precision of estimation,…

The general proposition of attachment theory is that attachment is grounded in an independent, biologically based system. The quality of primary attachment relationships strongly influences a child's early personality organization, particularly the concept of self and others. The theory emphasizes the primary status and biological function of…

Approximately 500 Colorado school board members and school superintendents responded to a 1983 questionnaire that sought to determine the extent to which a need for inservice training for school board members was perceived as important. Of 67 skills or areas of knowledge listed in the questionnaire, the board members identified 20 as fairly…

Some research has suggested that positive life events may interact with negative life events during periods of high stress to buffer the effects of negative events. The relationships among positive and negative life events and positive and negative psychological status were examined in an investigation of the direct and mediating effects of…

A total of 128 recently separated mothers and their children were interviewed and completed a number of adjustment measures as well as a measure of interparent acrimony. Legal information regarding the separation and divorce, which also serves as a measure of acrimony, was collected from public court records. Several variables assessing…

The developmental psychology literature has focused on strategy use and comprehension monitoring of children performing simple memory tasks; however, less attention has been given to the same factors in older subjects engaged in more complex cognitive tasks. In order to evaluate study strategy effectiveness, and students' ability to self-monitor…

Over 75 percent of the students enrolling as freshmen in Chicago's public high schools during 1978, 1979, and 1980 made up the sample for a study of the student characteristics that affected dropout rates. The characteristics assessed were reading achievement (as indicated by eighth-grade standardized test scores), age at enrollment in high…