Through the activities of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, employers can help their young employees develop not only the vocational side of their lives, but also their personalities, which will indirectly affect their work. (Editor/RY)

Forty-four hard core welfare recipients were administered the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. The profiles were intercorrelated and factor analyzed. Two distinct groups were depicted. The first group characteristics were dependency and rigidity, while the second one characterized self res\riction and restraint. Counseling strategies were…

The authors discuss the advisability of making orientation test batteries voluntary. Though students are opposed to compulsory testing, the authors argue that the information gained from them is important to the educational process. (CG)

English teacher-training coeds were found to be significantly more verbally fluent than a matched American sample on three measures of divergent thinking. (WY)

Activist leaders were compared with "establishment" members on demographic and personality variables. Activists were significantly more likely to be older, achieve higher grades, espouse a nonreligious orientation and have a working mother. The two groups did not differ significantly in overall psychological adjustment. (Author/CG)

Empirically derived actuarial personality statements from the published literature were used to describe the groups. Considerations of measuring social maturity during a time of political turmoil is discussed. The possible confounding influence of drugs is mentioned, and a multiple discriminant equation is proposed as a step in measuring social…

The principal result of this study is the demonstration that both positive and negative feedback result in higher diffuse anxiety scores than does congruent feedback while there is no difference in the effects of the two discrepant types of feedback thus confirming a Rogerian hypothesis regarding feedback and anxiety induction. (Author/CG)

Possible relationships between reading disability and delinquency in secondary school students are explored. (DB)

Results confirm that there is a significant tendency for homogamy between the traits of the subject and the traits of her fiance, as perceived by the subject. When the traits are not homogamous, there is a significant tendency for the fiance to resemble the subject's ideal self rather than her actual self. (Author)

A study of various accents characteristics of certain groups in Great Britain and the prestige associated with these accents is presented. (CK)

Scores on scales with identical or similar names on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for Women and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey were compared by means of both scale and profile analyses. The individual scales were only moderately intercorrelated; however, the total profiles revealed substantial agreement for most subjects. (Author)