Seven frequently used measures were examined by construct validation to improve measures. Results of this research indicate that there is a construct, termed "life satisfaction," shared by six of the seven measures and that no existing instrument best encompasses that construct. The construct is composed of two factors. (Author)

Factor analysis of responses by 213 persons to Rabin's Child Study Inventory resulted in five reliable factors. These five, termed parental fatalism, parental nurturance, children's independence, parental instrumentalism, and children's happiness, are similar to Rabin's original four parental motives of altruism, fatalism, narcissism, and…

Traces changes in curriculums from conception to application by examining an educational program of the Volkswagen Foundation for Kindergarten and Basic School. (CK)

The aims of this note are (a) to present data that show current trends in the choice of factor rotation in clinical research; (b) to propose that oblique rotations are inadequately represented in this literature; and (c) to present specific guidelines for rotation in clinical research. (Author)

Investigations of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were conducted. A principal-components factor analysis yielded three psychologically meaningful factors: one A-Trait factor, Cognitive Anxiety, and two A-State factors, Negative Descriptors and Positive Descriptors. Other studies investigated the effects of two threats, on overall A-State…

While the term "learning disability" awaits clarification, the authors have mounted an interdisciplinary effort to identify and treat children who suffer the immature development syndromes that trigger underachievement in educational tasks. Describes "vulnerable" children, who were studied by the Learning Disorders Unit of New York University…

Data are presented concerning: (1) dimensions underlying interracial perceptions; (2) ways in which students see other-race schoolmates with respect to these perceptual dimensions; and (3) the accuracy of the interracial perceptions. (Author/RC)

This paper describes an approach to student course evaluation which employs student-generated criteria and factor analysis. Emphasis is placed on how students perceive their experiences in the classroom and how these perceptions relate to their class statuses. (Author)

Analyzed factorially various theoretically derived measures of conceptual systems functioning and several proposed measures and correlations. (Author/RK)

This research was designed to measure how students enrolled in introductory marketing courses perceived mass section multimedia lecture classes in comparison with other commonly utilized teaching formats. (Author/RK)

Reports the results of a factor-analytic study of the Meyer Test, which measures various aspects of science interests and of attitudes toward science. The populations involved were 380 tenth-grade high school Israeli students and 680 0-level students in England. (MLH)

Presents a factor analysis of the responses of 170 Brazilian women to a Portuguese version of Rotter's I-E scale. "The analysis suggests the existence of two main independent factors, one which could be said to correspond to the original meaning intended for the scale and the other to the concept of fatalism."

Classroom teachers rated 291 schoolchildren, grades kindergarten through 6, on Conners' Teacher Rating Scale, developed for and used widely in drug studies in children. (Author)

Two large samples of urban families (n=287 students and n=94 families) were used to develop and cross-validate an assessment model and a measure of basic family processes and risk among diverse ethnic groups. Six scales produced a three-dimension higher order factor model. Implications for family assessment methodology and risk models are…

A factor analysis of 332 university counseling center students responses to Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-1 validity scale items identified four major factors: minimizing, exaggerating, cynicism, and psychological distress. Discusses implications for the development and interpretation of tests used in college counseling centers. (RJM)