Discusses techniques that child care workers can utilize to foster the development of coping skills in young children. Emphasizes the difference between psychological immunity to stress based on problem-solving abilities and pseudo-immunity created by overprotectiveness. Holds that challenges build children's competence and self-esteem.…

Studied vocational interests of persons with spinal cord injury. Using the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory, participants' scores were compared to norms for men and women in general on the inventory. Showed their interests were often incongruent with their physical limitations and suggested that counselors must assist in identifying vocational…

In a comparison of the performance of active and passive mechanically yoked subjects who learned their way through a tactile maze, it was shown that active subjects made more errors and took a greater number of trials to reach criterion than did passive subjects. (Author)

Studied how egalitaranism and success through individual achievement, were expressed in the involvement of others in consumer decisions. Results found egalitarians involved others in seeking more information. Individual achievement subjects delegated more decision responsibility for non-ego involving decisions. Suggests involvement of others could…

Hypothesized that encouraging depressed subjects to practice nondepressive daydreams could reduce their depression. Subjects were assigned control neutral daydreams, positive daydreams, and daydreams groups, developed by the individual and the experimenter. Change toward decreased depression was significant for the three treatment groups.…

Tests the degree of generalization from attributions of "overweight" to other personality attributions made by college students (N=223). Students were asked to write stories about male and female stimulus characters who varied only in body image. (CM)

To examine how group-relevant personality traits relate to student perceptions of their own involvement, 57 students taking introductory educational psychology at Temple University (Pennsylvania) were given a two-week treatment design. Only the relationship between liking hard work and involvement remained significant. (Author/LC)

Explores the relationship of internal-external locus of control with selected personal, psychological and work-related variables across age groups. Subjects are 1,960 public school teachers divided into two age groups: 20 to 35 years and 36 to 65 years. (Author/CM)

Argues that some institutional abuse of children is caused by frustrated attempts to treat children who are not treatable due to their extensively damaging life experiences. Suggests that first, the existence of such children should be recognized, and second, that some minimal care facilities should be adapted for housing them. (Author/GC)

Examines the relationship between self-evaluation and social comparison in adolescent males during their last two years of high school. The question is empirically examined in two realms that capture primary features of the adolescent transition: physical transformation and social role reorganization. (Author/RH)

Two studies were conducted to identify and develop a measure of dimensions of temperament which are continuous in the behavioral repertoire from early childhood to young adulthood. Identified factors were labeled as follows: activity level, attention span/distractibility, adaptability/approach-withdrawal, rhythmicity, and reactivity. (Author/RH)

The occurrence of depression and suicidal behavior in a group of delinquent females whose personality and offense patterns have been described previously is reported. Effects of personality pattern and ethnicity on depression and suicidal behavior of these delinquent females is discussed. (Author/GK)

Reading ability and performance on the Matching Familiar Figures Test were compared for two samples of seven-year-old children. Considerably more of the poor readers than the main sample were found to be impulsive. There was a consistent tendency for girls to be more reflective than boys. (Author/KC)

Extends sex bias research to personality measures, distinguishes two new types of sex bias, and provides a methodology for testing these biases. Findings suggest the two aspects of trust are sex linked. The hypothesis that more important trusting decisions are made toward men is questioned. (Author/BEF)

Norms are presented for male and female adults and for adolescents for the Depression Adjective Check Lists, Form E. All frequency distributions are skewed toward the left, particularly with adult samples, where, for both males and females, the rarity of raw scores above 13 makes their presentation not very meaningful. (Author)