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Katz, Phyllis A.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
Results indicate that race is an important determinant of white children's social responses to a female adult stranger. For every type of behavior there was a significant race effect on at least one of the indices used to measure it. But the presence or absence of physical handicap did not itself influence subjects' responses. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Children
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Mori, Allen A.; Olive, Jane E. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1978
Presented is a rationale for implementing early transdisciplinary intervention in behalf of blind and visually handicapped, mentally retarded infants. (Author/BD)
Descriptors: Infants, Intervention, Language Acquisition, Mental Retardation
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Josselson, Ruthellen; And Others – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1977
Phenomenological and psychodynamic differences between girls who score at the high and low extremes of the Psychosocial Maturity Inventory are explored. Ability to tolerate anxiety and the developmental use of interpersonal relationships are discussed as central to identity formation among these girls. (Author/MV)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Females, Interpersonal Relationship
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Laslett, Peter – Journal of Family History, 1977
This paper lists four interdependent family characteristics, and argues that they have been distinguishing features of the Western family for several centuries. They are: family membership, mother's age during childbearing, spouse age difference, and presence of other people. Their interrelationships and possible importance in personality…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Demography, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Characteristics
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Taylor, Ronald L. – Journal of Black Studies, 1976
Specifically focuses upon the ways in which role models are selected and rendered useful by black adolescents in their various attempts to cultivate features of their personal and social identities. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, Blacks, Conceptual Schemes
Sherman, Vivian – Viewpoints, 1977
The unrealized power of education lies in the ability of the imaginative teacher to understand the vital role imagination and dreams play in cognitive growth and to transmit this awareness to students. (JD)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Humanistic Education, Imagination
Johnson, Thomas F. – Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, 1977
The exhibiting of the genitals by males has previously been defined as symptomatic of narcissism and infantile sexuality. As an alternative, defining the problem as symptomatic of disturbances in basic relationships and treating the current central relationships as the focus offers a strong opportunity for inducing satisfactory changes. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Emotional Adjustment, Interpersonal Relationship
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Miller, Nancy B.; Silverman, Linda K. – Roeper Review, 1987
A coding system, derived from Dabrowski's levels of gifted individuals' emotional development, is based on categories that reflect feelings toward values, self, and others. Testing of the system's reliability indicated that it provides educators, parents, and counselors with a greater understanding of the developmental issues which confront gifted…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Developmental Stages, Emotional Development, Gifted
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Herek, Gregory M. – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
Personal attitudes toward social issues help people meet their needs either through benefits received from the attitude object or the attitude's expression. The personality, situational, and domain characteristics likely to influence the functional value of attitudes are discussed. Strategies for changing attitudes are briefly considered. (PS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Ideology, Individual Characteristics, Personality Development
Kriegsman, Kay Harris; Hershenson, David B. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1987
Compared physically disabled and able-bodied college students on Erickson's epigenetic stages of life-span development, and Maslow's motivational needs hierarchy of personality development. The groups were more similar than dissimilar in ego development and needs level. College students with disabilities may be a select population because of their…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages, Disabilities
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Cangemi, Joseph P. – Education, 1984
To determine perceptions of self-actualizing behavior as a purpose of higher education, students, professors, and administrators rated 12 self-actualizing behaviors on a 5-point scale from important to unimportant for the university to encourage. Analysis of responses showed the three groups essentially agreed that higher education should develop…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Role, Definitions, Educational Objectives
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Roberts, Gail C.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Compares the responses of 65 mothers and 42 fathers who completed the Child Rearing Practices Report first when their child was three years old and again at 12 years. Despite many changes in the families, considerable continuity in childrearing orientations was shown. Shifts in emphasis coincided with developmentally appropriate areas for change.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Rearing, Family Structure, Fathers
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Silvern, Louise E.; Katz, Phyllis A. – Sex Roles, 1986
A study examined the relations between fourth- through sixth-grade students' school adjustment and the extent to which their self concepts conformed to stereotypic gender roles. Among boys, more stereotypic self-concepts were associated with high levels of externalizing conduct disorders. Among girls, stereotypy was associated with high levels of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Personality Development
Wynne, Edward – Principal, 1986
Growing public concern with student discipline, increases in student suicide rates, homicides, and high pregnancy rates of teenage girls are causing educators to give renewed attention to the concept of "character development" in public education. (MD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Moral Development
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Heath, Douglas H. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
A longitudinal study of the maturing of 68 professional and managerial men provided adolescent and adult test, questionnaire, and interview data about their personalities and competence that were predictive of their vocational adaptation. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Longitudinal Studies, Males
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