Nineteen school psychologists assigned 142 items in Form L-M of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale to the five Operations categories of Guilford's Structure of Intellect model. Results show levels of agreement are not high enough to justify classifying Stanford-Binet items in accordance with the Structure of Intellect Operations categories.…

Satisfaction in family living was studied in a New Zealand sample of 191 men and 285 women in the eight stages of the family life cycle. Results were compared with Rollins and Feldman's American sample. (Author)

This paper reviews the use of video tape with respect to the training of counsellors and other helping professionals, accelerating client growth in counseling and therapy and examines the sources of information on VTR. Generally, VTR procedures were found to be very useful. (Author)

Theoretically, as one's ability to communicate improves, so does his self-concept as a communicator. Students enrolled in a basic speech course or an advanced interviewing course were administered a Platz Q-Sort to measure communicator self-concept. Results imply a communication course does significantly change communicator self-concept. (Author)

The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which a reflection or impulsive response style, as judged by teachers through a rating method, is related to academic performance. (Author)

Examines reactions to emotionally disturbed children by their peer group. Behavior, sex and labelling appear to play a part in such responses. (Author)

This study investigates the relationship between selected facets of perceptual-cognitive development at the kindergarten level and subsequent reading achievement during first grade. (Author)

A short psychological health questionnaire for children, based on a theoretical model of health as a creative, growth-oriented process, is described. (Author)

For 151 male graduates of the University of North Dakota, expressed choices measured by preferences made as high school seniors on the ACT Student Profile Section were significantly more accurate predictors of graduating college major and of career entry occupation than were their Vocational Preference Inventory high point codes. (Author)

Subjects in this study were asked to report the number of contacts-for-advice they had made when forming decisions to have a therapeutic abortion, or to carry a pregnancy to term. As predicted, the abortion group differed strongly from both other groups on most questions. (Author)

Subjects rated a counselor's performance on two videotapes which were identical except for the level of professional jargon employed by the counselor. Subjects were more likely to rate the counselor high if they were given the high-prestige introduction than if they received the low-prestige introduction. (Author)

This article compared the concurrent predictive accuracy of the (SVIB) for the same subjects on three sets of scales, the SVIB-Holland scales, the Basic Interest scales, and the Occupational scales. (Author)

WISC performance of Jewish children has revealed a highly consistent and stable pattern, characterized by relatively low scores on Picture Completion, Picture Arrangement, Block Design, and Object Assembly. Some of these findings might be understood by reference to relative weakness of Jewish subjects on tasks related to psychological…

High- and low-anxiety groups performed a learning task after receiving either achievement-orienting or neutral instructions. While the results showed an overall superiority of low- to high-test-anxiety groups, there was a significant Test Anxiety x Instructions interaction. The results are interpreted in terms of attentional blocks that…

The duration of utterance, latency, and interruption speech behavior of 30 young job applicants was studied under three speaking conditions. In the third condition, the employment interview, a number of positive correlations emerged. Verbal IQ is positively correlated with a speaker's mean duration of utterance, especially when he is discussing…