This study had two purposes: first, to determine whether there exists a relationship between sex, family structure, power structure in the family of orientation, or social class and the kind of marriage role expectations of adolescents and to determine if those expectations are equalitarian. (Author/RK)

A study of 80 randomly selected counselors employed by the counseling staff of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation investigated the relationship of job satisfaction to self-concept and the relationship of counselor's perceptions of actual and ideal work functions. (EA)

This study explores the relationship between empathy (measured by Hogan's empathy scale) and psychological differentiation (measured by the Embedded Figures Test). When 32 male undergraduate volunteers completed both tests, it was found that highly empathetic S's tended to be field independent. Both emphathetic and field independent persons are…

We stand by our original conclusion that for a developmental analysis, upright orientation should not be inferred from judged upside down orientation with a binary vertical method. We believe that our more general procedures are more appropriate for research on orientation and form perception. (Author)

Investigated adolescent males' recognition of evaluative words spoken near threshold by male and female voices. Closed-style subjects (theoretically characterized by social withdrawal and perceptual blocking) recognized fewer female-spoken (relative to male-spoken) words; this finding is consistent with adaptive-style theory. (DP)

The objectives of this article are threefold: (a) to clarify what we think it means to be a girl growing up in our society; (b) to examine ways in which we may respond to girls more meaningfully; and (c) to explore what we consider are better messages for girls. (Authors)

A discussion of the unique role of the Mexican American woman. (DM)

This study was designed to determine if anxiety in intermediate grade school children would influence their perceptual reading pattern of word phrases. Higher anxiety scores significantly limited student perceptions among 3-, 4-, and 5-word length phrases. (Author)

This article identifies the most salient aspects of the psychological impact of feminism on educated women at this point in time. (Author)

The study reported on attempted to establish the strength of faculty agreement or disagreement with statements implying that they perceived decisionmaking for selected issues to be legitimate on their respective campuses, and compared these results from campus to campus. The survey uncovered complex patterns that varied with the issue involved,…

An examination of 10 randomly selected introductory sociology texts revealed that five of the ten failed to index a reference to women. The analysis of the role of women in American society is an area which the introductory texts leave impressively unexplored. (Author)

An analysis is presented of the reasons for the failure of clinical psychologists to provide strong supporting evidence for the utility of their diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, for the declining interest in diagnostic testing, and for the proliferation of new methods of intervention. (Author)