Examined the relationship between self-concept and behavior in 36 kindergarten children rated high or low in social and academic competence by teachers. Results showed no significant differences in self-concept between the two groups, but high-rated children who felt best about themselves were higher achievers and more compliant. (JAC)

Forty-eight 8-year-old and forty eight 12-year-old Dutch boys evaluated a story of aggression. Both groups judged the act more negatively when the agressor's intentions were bad, but the younger boys relied more on the consequences to determine their judgment than did the older boys. (Author/KM)

The failure of the manifest purpose of such psychotherapy suggests that it has a more important latent purpose, one that is in accord with the values of American capitalist society. It is proposed that this latent purpose is to serve as a means of social control, exercised through the ideological and clinical practice aspects of such…

The author suggests dealing with the problem of adolescent sexual behavior through accurate information and wide knowledge of all aspects of human sexual behavior and skill in problem solving. (Author/BY)

The data collected on 144 lower-middle income male and female subjects suggests that as the age of the child increases, either the need for social approval must decrease or the expectancy of success through nonconforming responses must increase. (Author/WY)

Paper presented at the Merrill-Palmer Conference on Research and Teaching of Infant Development, February 13-15, 1970. (JE)

A study involving 240 students (undergraduate special education, graduate special education, undergraduate regular education, and graduate regular education) indicated that the label ascribed to a child significantly affected his/her perceptions of student academic behavior, and to a lesser degree, social behavior. The assigned attribute did not…

Extends the rationale for integrating handicapped with nonhandicapped children to include the mainstreaming of infants in group care programs. (RH)

A total of 73 children seven to eight years of age were videotaped as they interacted with a sibling in cooperative, competitive, and neutral situations. It was concluded that children's experience of the sibling relationship varies systematically with sibling status. (Author/RH)

Game-playing has become a more generalized phenomenon than ever, entering into public recreation, school programs, and commercial promotional efforts. Games require competitive interaction between two or more individuals, making game-playing useful in clinical therapy and opening games to technological innovation. The latest such innovation is the…

Model developed to enhance understanding of group processes and dynamics and to help plan for intervention and research in treatment or task groups. Presents a cognitive map of a group, incorporating five sets of group variables: (1) member characteristics; (2) behaviors; (3) group characteristics; (4) episodes; and (5) output. (Author/NRB)

A study was done to determine how social interaction patterns among individuals participating in recreational activities occur. Results show that the social groups within which individuals interact determine the selection of recreational activities. (JN)

A lengthy two-cycle migration pattern is typical of young males on the Maltese island of Gozo. Their typical final return to and reintegration into the natal community impacts the local population, housing development, and the visual appearance of the area. These findings closely parallel prior research results. (SB)