The life and contributions of Helen Thompson Woolley and Leta Stetter Hollingworth are presented. These two women were prominent in the early mental testing movement as well as leaders in clinical psychology. Woolley and Hollingworth were feminists whose careful and objective research frequently studied alleged psychological differences between…

This paper was presented March 1, 1969 at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans.

In a replication of a recent study by Masling and Harris, with a different set of Es and a different patient population, no statistically significant evidence was found that male Es respond differentially when administering the TAT to male and female Ss. (Author)

Employed confirmatory and exploratory factor analytic methods to test the hypothesis that Spielberger's revised four-factor model of anxiety was valid for characterizing the anxiety of Blacks. Administered the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory to 182 Black adults. Confirmed the state-trait assertion, but not the four-factor model of anxiety-present…

Administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to parents (N=342) of children seen for psychiatric services at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute during the 1970s. Results suggested a parent population in which mothers were suffering considerably more psychological distress or psychopathology than fathers during the 1975-79…

Expands upon the Farley (1967) study in three ways: (1) use of experimental manipulation of social desirability response set rather than correlational analysis, (2) use of the recent revision of the Sensation Seeking Scale, and (3) inclusion of sex comparisons. (Author)

Subjects were 55 male and 86 female undergraduates who completed the following: (1) Rotter's I-E Scale; (2) the IPAT Anxiety Scale, and (3) a questionnaire about expectations of achieving valued goals. Findings indicate that the well documented relationship between locus of control and anxiety holds for both males and females and that a lower…

Indicates that IQ ranking is the most significnat factor affecting Draw A Person test performance by male subjects. IQ rankings were not found to significantly influence drawings by females. (Author/DEP)

Presented age and sex-specific norms for the 13-item short form of the Beck Depression Inventory, based on data collected during a general health survey (N=1,091). Females were found to score more highly than males, and an internal consistency reliability of .81 was found. (Author)