Reports structural properties of the Thauberger Avoidance of the Ontological Confrontation of Death Scale with respect to social desirability as well as results of an analysis focusing on the hypothesized relationship of this construct to neuroticism. (Author)

Subjects responded to questionnaires and rated events in the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Some were given psychophysical training before rating events. Training did not have significant effect on ratings. Stressfulness ratings were consistently higher than those of social readjustment. Data suggest this effect interacted with the events…

Use of Carkhuff level 3 response, a Carkhuff level 5 response, and probing with regard to perceived helpfulness were investigated by having inmates view videotapes of eight role-played counselor-inmate interactions. The level 5 response was perceived as the most helpful, followed by probing and the level 3 response. (Author)

The strengths of the scales were concentrated in the areas of domain and construct validity, weaknesses in the areas of discriminant validity, interobserver reliability, and decision-making reliability. (DB)

The article describes and critiques two scales (the Vineland Social Maturity Scale and the American Association of Mental Deficiency's Adaptive Behavior Scale - Public School Version) for assessing the adaptive behavior of mentally retarded children. (PHR)

The results indicated that training had the effect of reducing the biasing effect of the diagnostic label when the rating scale was employed. No biasing effect was noted for the time sampling results. (Author/DLS)

Death-related fears were significant in predicting responses to situations where avoidance was not an effective strategy. The uneasiness nurses report in work situations involving the dying is more than a simple reflection of the nurse's own fears. (Author)

Self-monitoring activity or mood produced increases in self-reported pleasant activities and decreases in depressed mood, with self-monitoring of activity generally producing slightly better results. (Author)

The Frankel Developmental Scale, a method of charting parents' observations of their handicapped children's development in seven areas (fine motor, gross motor, dressing, eating, social, language, and cognitive development) is described and a sample scale is presented. (CL)

Explored the relationship of selected temperament characteristics and ideational fluency in preschool children. Distractibility and adaptability were related to original scores on pattern subtests of the Multidimensional Stimulus Fluency Measure, while temperament was related to original scores on tasks involving tactile manipulation of visible…

The study found good concurrent validity when the American Association of Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale-School Edition and the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales were used with 15 autistic persons aged 8 to 18. (Author/DB)

Behavioral and physiological assessments of 41 seven-and-one-half-year-old children who had been selected to be inhibited or uninhibited at 21 months and observed again at four and five-and-one-half years revealed that each of the two original behavioral profiles predicted theoretically reasonable derivatives. Shy children remained shy, while…

The interrater reliability of three interaction scales--the Maternal Behavior Rating Scale, the Rating Scales of Mother-Child Interaction, and the Teaching Skills Inventory--were estimated with four statistical techniques. The estimates varied widely, both within and across the three interaction scales. Suggestions are offered to help researchers…

Study examined ability of attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) children with and without learning disability to perceive nonverbal social cues. ADHD/LD children demonstrated significant difficulty in comparison to their peers in effectively perceiving paralanguage cues. This group also showed significant improvement on the Postures and…