The purpose of this study was to examine how partner psychological maltreatment is associated with depression, daily interpersonal experiences, and affect. Participants were 67 late adolescents (17- to 22-years-old). Each participant completed a survey followed by reporting affect, and interpersonal hassles and uplifts for seven consecutive days.…

The verbal behavior of two groups of nine tenth-grade boys who met for eight sessions in an unstructured group discussion was studied. Verbal behavior was encoded using a modified version of Bales' interaction process analysis. (Author/BJG)

College students were divided into four groups and administered the standard version of the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and/or a self-orientation version of the same instrument. Subjects displayed greater amounts of principled moral reasoning when responding to the standard (other-orientation) version. (Author/GK)

The influence of adolescents' perceptions of their attachment relationships with parents and friends was studied for 493 New Zealand adolescents. Findings suggest that adolescent self-esteem is more strongly associated with the quality of affect toward parents and friends than with the utilization of these figures for support or proximity. (SLD)