Children who participated in the Duso program felt more capable of doing things independently of others, more capable of directing their own activities, and greater acceptance by others. (Author)

The relationship between reading attainment, intelligence, extraversion and neuroticism was examined for groups of children whose chronological age, mental age and reading age were relatively constant. (Author)

Subjects were assigned to four experimental groups: neurotic extraverts, stable extraverts, neurotic introverts, stable introverts, and a control group. Results indicated that introversion, and not neuroticism, facilitated conditioning processes. Neuroticism, however, did not interact on the conditioning of affective self disclosures. Introverted…

A measure of sex guilt was related to the report of previous sexual experiences, feelings following participation, or reasons for nonparticipation, and premarital and postmarital sexual standards. Sex guilt was negatively correlated with the level of intimacy of premarital sexual experiences, and guilty Ss has less permissive premarital standards.…

The present study is concerned with dogmatism, a particular form of authoritarianism, and its relationship to the stereotypic views of ideal pupils that are held by intending teachers. (Author)

This study investigated the self concept of four adolescent groups, differentiated from each other in terms of their ethnic origin and geographical location. (CJ)

A positive relationship between vocational crystallization and self esteem was assessed by observing differences on two measures of vocational crystallization in students high and low in self esteem scores. No differences according to self esteem were observed. Differences were observed in the certainty of high and low self esteem students. The…

It was concluded that social science students who were most satisfied with their college major were more flexible than those who were least satisfied, but natural science students who were most satisfied with their major were less flexible than their relatively dissatisfied classmates. (Author)

Urging more research, the authors state a study of steel company supervisors and executives shows the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and demographic variables had limited usefulness in understanding or predicting managerial psychological need satisfaction." Article includes five tables and a full discussion of same. (Authors/PD)

Comparison of the results of this study with correlations reported by Dahlstrom and Welsh (1960) indicate that the effect of K correction on the intercorrelations among MMPI scales is small compared with that resulting from a change in population. (Author)