Tested two hypotheses: one predicted that Hispanic American heroin addicts are better adjusted than White addicts; a second predicted that Hispanics characteristically are less open about expressing psychological symptoms. Both hypotheses were confirmed in multivariate analyses of variance and covariance with age, education, and socioeconomic…

Studied frequency of occurrence of four different types of physical contact (touching, holding hands, sitting-on-lap, and hugging) in school-based helping interactions between nonprofessional child aides and young referred children. Frequency of contact behaviors did not relate either to adjustment status at referral or to intervention outcomes.…

Teacher ratings and observational data were gathered on 22 pairs of learning disabled (LD) and non-LD children in the second and fourth grades in an effort to compare their task-oriented, social, and affective behavior patterns in regular class settings. (Author)

Compares the expression of affect towards parents of 8- to 11-year-old children raised in one of three environments: kibbutz children raised communally with peers, kibbutz children raised in families, and city children raised in traditional families. (SS)

Interviews with 41 diabetics indicate that most have resolved their feelings about death and have adopted a passive posture. Fear of incapacitation is prevalent. Implications are drawn regarding the role of the counselor in discussing client feelings. (Author)

The pleasure-arousal hypothesis predicts an interaction between pleasure and arousal levels in determining approach-avoidance, such that approach increases with arousal in pleasant settings and decreases with arousal in unpleasant settings. Results support this hypothesis. (Author)

The pretreatment personality scores were not significantly related to improved outcome scores at termination either as a main effect or for the interaction with treatment group. However, low neuroticism and high extraversion were associated with improved social adjustment one year later. (Author)

Evidence suggests that student teachers are affectively disposed to examples of directive over nondirective supervision. Future research should examine tentative findings that student teachers prefer supervisors of the opposite sex. (Author/CJ)

Belgian freshman attitudes towards and expectations of chemistry courses before and after the first year are examined statistically. Among the findings: negative attitudes toward chemistry are related to level of difficulty, and overlap of population interests show that course needs could be met best by developing four separate courses. (MSE)

Given the opportunity to be aggressive against confederates who had stolen money from them, subjects directed more aggression toward nonremorseful confederates. An interaction effect of remorse manipulation and subject's level of Machiavellianism was also found. (Author)

Encourages counselors to appreciate the threats involved for men in becoming more intimate with themselves. Suggests some ways to facilitate this process and pinpoints specific concerns and thoughts that male clients may have as they become more deeply involved in therapy. (Author)

To assess teachers' statements that influence affective growth in children, two observation instruments were developed, and direct observations were made in seven suburban Head Start centers to compare the communications of 20 teachers to 21 handicapped and 21 nonhandicapped children. (SBH)

In an attempt to make dialog learning in a FLES Spanish class easier, the use of the "integrated story" is suggested that exposes the children to new phrases and sentences of the dialog prior to the formal introduction of the dialog. (NCR)

Investigated the effects of an intensive group experience with a "profeminist" format on sex-role related attitudes and personality trait and state measures. No overall changes were obtained across testing periods on self-report measures of sex-role attitude, sex-role identity, or authoritarianism. Only self-reports of trait anxiety showed a…

Examines the naturally occurring social interactions of five- to eight-year-old children at a summer day camp. Children were observed in their routine camp activities, which took place in a variety of settings: some highly structured and adult-centered, some less highly regulated. (Author/MP)