A 41-item sociopolitical questionnaire was administered to 209 upper-middle-class, primarily white, high school students. The 37 students scoring highest and 35 students scoring lowest in liberalism responded to interviews, tests, and Q sorts. Results indicate that personality structure is related to adolescents' political orientations and that…

Suggesting that creativity is a useful frame of reference for some aspects of counseling and psychotherapy, the author considers situational and internal blockages to creative activity and discusses psychologically oriented conditions which favor creativity. (CL)

Explored the relationships between measures of self-concept, personality, and communication skills in 463 adolescent girls, and between 35 peer identified leaders and 35 nonleaders. (Author/DB)

Describes a typical disturbance of affectivity in adolescent schizophrenics in which the patient relates to the people around him or her in a superficial, socially acceptable, receptionist-like manner. (SS)

Results concur with the Thomas-Chess findings in identifying three main temperament groups: difficult, easy, and slow to warm up. Membership in the difficult group predicted later childhood behavior disorder in both sexes. (Author)

This paper reports a test-retest study of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory for 257 children, ages 7-16, receiving psychological services in a British Columbia public health facility. Findings support the test author's claims over a 30-day period of relative score stability on extraversion and neuroticism. (Author/SJL)

Results tend to agree with previous general population samples in not indicating any significant association between total IQ and season of birth. (Author/DB)

Various types of humor found among children of school age and among adolescents are placed in a structural-developmental framework. Also discussed are several ways in which teachers can use children's humor in their classrooms. (MP)

Describes an experimental undergraduate personality adjustment course at Texas A&M University in which students participated in an experimental effort to introduce them to a formalized affective learning opportunity with systematic training in progressive relaxation. (Author/CK)

Discusses several early simplistic theories on the sources of creativity so as to provide a basis for the thesis that creativity springs from a natural human quality. (Author/RK)

American college graduates of the post Kent State era are compared with those of the post Hitler era as to authoritarian type personality. A short rating scale, which is included in the article, administered to graduates in 1950 was again administered to graduates of the same college in 1973. The 1973 group was less authoritarian than the 1950…

Values education is discussed as a process which enhances the student's understanding of his/her individual beliefs, rather than as a course of study which guides the student toward a desired response. (RW)

Studies Chaplin as a filmmaker and personality by analyzing his writings and background from an astrological perspective. (MH)

Two separate studies using Form IV of the Sensation-Seeking Scale (SSS) are reported. The first study correlates SSS by factor and sex with the earlier Form II SSS, supporting the reliability of the General SSS scale and discriminant validity of the Form IV SSS factor scales in relationship to general sensation-seeking. In the second study,…

Florida extension agents (n=56) who completed the Group Embedded Figures Test and Values Analysis Profile were mostly field dependent and had global perceptions, preferred structured learning environments, and tended to be social. All were classed as synthesizers in terms of values. (SK)