This study shows measured intelligence to be the best long-range predictor of success in university. Variables of age, sex, religious affiliation, marital status, type of living accommodation, and distance commuted to school account for 19 percent of variance. Implications of these results and their comparison to previous research are discussed.…

Investigates the hypothesis that individuals perceiving threat to behavioral freedom will be motivated to restore this freedom. A study using a pretest-posttest, with-in subjects design was conducted with undergraduate freshmen as subjects. The findings did not support theoretical expectations. (Author)

The psychological conflict arising from a clash of status roles such as teachers often experience is discussed in terms of personality difficulties. (LH)

To assess adolescent egocentrism-sociocentrism, an instrument was devised to measure Elkind's constructs (the imaginary audience, the personal fable, and general self-absorption), plus nonsocial focuses and political focuses. Subjects were ten males and ten females each from three age groups: sixth-grade, eighth-grade, and college. (Author/SJL)

Describes two lines of theory and research--the psychology of personal constructs and the study of creativity as an associative process--that can be brought to converge productively on the general problem of creative communication as an interpersonal cognitive activity. (GT)

Two experiments were conducted to examine the hypotheses that physical aggression and fantasy aggression would lead to a preference for viewing violence. Subjects were college students. (MP)

Results of this study emphasized the importance of considering psychological disturbance in assessing functional components of low back pain. Psychologically disturbed patients had higher life-event scores regardless of organic pathology. (Author/BEF)

Results indicate that the scale is psychometrically sound and has discriminant validity in relation to the Mosher Forced-Choice Guilt Inventory Sex Guilt subscale. The clinical implications of distinguishing between sexual anxiety and sexual guilt are discussed. (Author)

This investigation studied the relationship between personality and influence means by additional measures of personality in the marriage relationship. One such measure is based on the Eriksonian development approach. (Author)

Presents method for introducing William Sheldon's approach to psychology through a classroom demonstration using student observations. Sheldon contends that three general body types relate to three types of personality. (KC)

Reports that an analysis of the responses of 35 journalists to 50 value items revealed two types of journalists: the inner-directed high professional and the other-directed low professional. Discusses attitudes and values of the two types. (GT)

The validity of the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS) was investigated by correlating it with the six Class I scales of the California Psychological Inventory on a sample of undergraduate students. Results supported the validity of the RAS. (JKS)

A compilation of paradoxical interpretations and prescriptions is presented after a short review of similar efforts. Includes the following dimensions: individual v systematic; prescriptive v descriptive; reframing v relabeling; and specific v general. Theoretical, empirical, and clinical implications of this typology are considered, with an…

Investigates the relationships among managerial status, sex, and traits of aggression, dominance, achievement-orientation, and nurturance. Results for high achievement, high dominance, and low nurturance support the managerial stereotype. There was little support for the male managerial stereotype, since these traits appear in both males and…

This paper analyzes aphasia using Titone's Glossodynamic Model which assumes the existence of three hierarchic levels of personality. (CFM)