This study investigated the relationship between scores on the Defense Mechanisms Inventory and reaction to an experimental conflict situation in which Ss (85 undergraduate college students) were led to believe that their performance was deficient on a new test of scholastic ability. The pattern of defenses predicted residual posttest estimates of…

A surprising aspect encountered in this study was the reluctance of parents of daughters to complete the MMPI as compared to the willingness of parents of sons to complete the same form. (Author)

Somindence (sober mature independence) is found in the stolid, mature, independent; and by contrast, dissofrustance (dissociative rejection of frustrating ideas) characterizes the more careful, less enthusiastic person with increased dependence on external control. (Author/MB)

Data clearly failed to support the general hypothesis that active students would be quite similar to student activists along the dimensions studied; instead, when differences were found, the results tended to group active students with passive students and differentiate both from student activists. (Authors/MB)

Findings underline the importance of being concerned with a child's adjustment early, since later performance tends to relate significantly to it. (Authors)

A model is presented which illustrates the hypothesis that cultural differences among ethnic-religious groups give rise to differences in psychological dispositions which influence occupational achievement. (DM)

Initial exploration using physiological feedback as part of a videotaped feedback, simulation film, training and treatment method is described. (Author)

Clash of cultures produces the defeatism erroneously called shyness in the Spanish-speaking child. (Author/ML)