Lower-class patients in a moderate-cost clinic tend to be more authoritarian-submissive than upper-class patients. The significant curvilinear relationship indicates that for lower-class patients, the greater the authoritarian-submissiveness relative to their therapists, the longer the duration of treatment. (Author)

Explores factor structure of the Personality Research Form (PRF) and examines the inventory's relations with response styles. In general, the PRF content scales correlate moderately with each other and with measures of acquiescence, social desirability, and defensiveness response biases. (Author)

Article seeks answers to two questions: (1) Does school make important contribution to sex information of youth? and (2) Do initial sources of sex information differ for males and females? Results indicate major source of information is peers. (Author/EK)

Whether there is positive correlation between type of college instruction and student attitudes and achievement was examined. College students will make greater achievement gains if taught by indirect rathen than direct teaching styles and amount of indirect teaching is not sufficient factor for predicting attitude of college students toward…

Notes extent to which students in large universities share faculty goals. Results show correlation between academic success for students of both sexes, and faculty. (EK)

The aim of this research was to assess and compare personality and social factors of college students involved in the use of drugs. Sex and academic performance were included in the assessment. (Author)

Assumption made in this study is that student life styles are varied and there is no one classroom structure appropriate for all students. Central hypothesis tested is that the greater the match between a student's life style and classroom structure, the greater the congruence between life style and classroom behavior. (Author)

Reinforcement preferences were hypothesized to be dependent upon both the nature of the judging Ss and elementary, middle, or high school students. Evidence indicates a relationship between age or grade level of pupils and the perceived potency of possible reinforcers by teachers. Presented in part at American Psychological Association, Montreal,…

An experimental classroom management system involving contingency management, individualized instruction, peer assistance, and teacher adoption of the role of a manager of learning activities was employed in 25 Appalachian classrooms. The study raises hope that improvements in instruction will be accompanied by improvements in the academic…

Results from two experimental situations, risk taking and helping behavior, indicate that in the risk-taking experiment subjects who agreed to maintain confidentiality disclosed less frequently information when compared to control subjects. In the helping behavior study, no difference was found in frequency of disclosed information between…

This study examined the feeling of expectation experienced by female college students. Results indicated students felt a lack of concern on the part of faculty and administration. (EK)

Problems of environment studied in an interdisciplinary approach forms essence of academic plan of University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The UWGB plan requires a return to the common ground of fundamental principles as precondition to a realistic study of environmental problems. (Author/EK)

This study replicated the story completion part of the earlier research on fear of success by Horner, and introduced three variations in the cue used to measure fear of success, which was slightly more characteristic of honor students than others. (EK)