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Swann, William B., Jr.; Chang-Schneider, Christine; McClarty, Katie Larsen – American Psychologist, 2008
Responds to the comments by J. J. Krueger, K. D. Vohs, and R. F. Baumeister (2007) on the current authors' original article, "Do people's self-views matter? Self-concept and self-esteem in everyday life" (2007). Krueger et al brought up many points with which the current authors agree. Nevertheless, as Krueger et al noted these points of…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Self Concept, Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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Rothbart, Mary K. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
Provided is a commentary on articles written for a special section on temperament and childhood disorders. Temperament's contributions to the development of childhood disorders are considered both generally and specifically. Questions are raised about the use of terminology in the field, particularly the term difficult. Differentiation of outcomes…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Children, Measures (Individuals), Predictor Variables
Petiet, Carole Anne – 1983
Based on the assumption that differences in personal meaning and in the social significance of loss predispose widows and divorced individuals to different, specific vulnerabilities during grieving, 410 separated, divorced, and widowed women, aged 23 to 76 years, with at least one child, completed the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist, the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Divorce, Females
Schlesinger, Stephen E. – 1983
Many social policies rely on assessments of violence potential in their implementation. Decisions concerning such civil matters as involuntary institutionalization and level of institutional custody, and criminal matters such as type or length of sentence and the granting of bail often rely on estimates of the potential that an individual will be…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aggression, Emotional Response, Evaluation Criteria
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Bargh, John A.; Raymond, Paula – Journal of Social Issues, 1995
Considers sexual harassment from the perspective of abuse of power, and discusses the possibility of having power within a situation that automatically and nonconsciously triggers a sexuality schema, just as racial or gender features automatically trigger stereotypes of that group. The possible origins of the automatic power/sex linkage and its…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories, Emotional Abuse, Interpersonal Relationship
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Fiske, Susan T.; Glick, Peter – Journal of Social Issues, 1995
Theorizes that workplace sexual harassment results from the complex interplay of ambivalent motives and gender stereotyping of women and jobs. It argues that ambivalence combines hostile and "benevolent" sexist motives based on paternalism, gender differentiation, and heterosexuality and that organizational context can encourage or discourage the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories, Employed Women, Hostility
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Easterlin, Richard A. – Social Indicators Research, 2005
In a rebuttal of Easterlin (1995), Hagerty and Veenhoven (2003) analyze data for 21 countries and conclude that "growing national income does go with greater happiness." But the U.S. experience does not support this conclusion, which they obtain only by mixing together two sets of noncomparable surveys. Moreover, the result of studies of European…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Income, Life Satisfaction
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Schwartz, Allan J. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2005
Stephenson, Belesis, and Balliet (2005) urge that future research on college student suicide should not continue its historical emphasis on completed suicide nor on the contrast between students and non-students. But their paper does not provide an adequately complete and accurate summary of our present knowledge of completed student suicide. This…
Descriptors: Suicide, At Risk Persons, College Students, Weapons
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Hoffman, Lois Wladis – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Considers the increase in research on adolescence, with attention to its transitional aspects during the adolescent period and as a bridge between childhood and adulthood. In addition, discusses the effort to examine interactional processes between parent and child and between environment and genes, with respect to the articles of this special…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development
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O'Connor, Thomas G.; Rutter, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on problems raised in this special issue, focusing on the distinctive aspects of the risk research reported. Highlights issues like sample characteristics, measurement strategies, specificity of risk factors, and risk mechanisms. Discusses the challenges of integrating alternative models of risk, with special references to research into…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
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Wachs, Theodore D. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on research problems raised in this special issue. Suggests that recent research highlights the nature of the multiple processes underlying variability in child and adolescent adjustment. Views variability as a function of covarying influences from multiple domains, operating on specific developmental outcomes across a background of time…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development
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Lerner, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on the special theme issue examining the roles of socialization, biology, and culture as they affect adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Proposes a theory-guided research approach, based on four assumptive components of contemporary developmental theories: systematic change and relative plasticity; relationism and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development
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Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Introduces this special theme issue examining the roles of socialization, biology, and culture as they affect adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Problems of adolescence addressed include antisocial behavior, depressive symptoms, substance abuse, low achievement, and eating problems. Considers factors implicated in successful…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, At Risk Persons
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Graber, Julia A.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on this special theme issue examining the roles of socialization, biology, and culture as they affect adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Presents models for predicting and understanding behavioral and affective change at transitions occurring especially from middle childhood through adolescence. Provides examples…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents