Evaluated possible increased effectiveness from combining cognitive and relaxation coping skills (CRCS) in treatment of anger by comparing CRCS with relaxation coping skills (RCS) alone and no-treatment control. Subjects were 55 college students. Some process variables slightly favored CRCS over RCS. Compared to controls, both treatments led to…

Attempts to reflect the highly realistic world that many parents confront after the death of their child. Describes adjustment as harsh, complex, and long lasting. Explores factors influencing the parents' situation and possible counselor responses. Looks at the grieving process, societal attitudes, family life, and counseling strategies.…

Multiple regression analysis of data from 127 public school teachers and 126 journalists indicated that negative affect did not completely explain the relationship of cognitive appraisal of stress and degree of distress. Both cognitive processes and trait negative affectivity contributed to the negative emotional reactions to occupational stress.…

Examined 111 women's retrospective reports of childhood sexual abuse. Explored domains of circumstances of abuse, mediators, and outcomes (negative effects of abuse). Found long-term negative outcomes of abuse directly affected by close relationship to perpetrator and severity of abuse from circumstance of abuse domain, and immediate negative…

Because assistant principals are essential to the smooth functioning of a secondary school and the success of its principal, attention must be given to facilitating veteran newcomers' adjustment. New assistant principals should be given a realistic picture of the district and be assigned responsibilities corresponding to the newcomer's talents.…

Captures the shock, pain, and disappointment of a superintendent who was abruptly fired by his board president. Advice hinges on bettering one's bargaining position, developing an action plan, and learning to anticipate people problems before they arise. Lacking meaningful employment, the former superintendent has become a writer and house…

Presents view of caregiver stress as consequence of process comprising number of interrelated conditions, including the socioeconomic characteristics and resources of caregivers and the primary and secondary stressors to which they are exposed. Claims coping and social support can potentially intervene at multiple points along the stress process.…

Investigated interacting effects of information-based preparation and dispositional desire for information among first-time cardiac catheterization patients. Findings from 72 adults randomly assigned to high- or low-information preparation condition revealed that, when desire for information and preparatory information level were matched, there…

Notes that children of alcoholics use common maladaptively successful methods to achieve their survival-oriented fictive goals and carry these behaviors with them into adulthood. Discusses insidious and enduring effects of alcoholism on lifestyle of adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs). Describes developmental legacy of alcoholism as legacy of…

As change renders obsolete old methods of career choice and counseling, counselors should focus on helping people acquire skills to survive in a "risk society" and cope with uncertainty. (SK)

A marketing concept was applied to college registration procedures in an experiment, focusing on degree of "escalation" of effort of students who had failed twice to register in desired courses, type of registration used (formal or informal) on each of three tries, and student characteristics (time until graduation, major, gender). (MSE)

Humor cannot solve every problem facing school administrators, but it can reduce the psychological gap between boss and staff, create camaraderie, increase problem-solving abilities, and help people cope. Administrators can look for humor, find a model, develop perspective, get support, revamp the office environment, start a "funny" file, swap…

Examined dating relationships for 280 college freshmen. Made comparisons of self-esteem, mastery, use of coping strategies, and preference of negotiation styles between individuals in violent and nonviolent dating relationships. Findings indicated that negotiation style of Negative Affect and coping strategies of Confrontation and Social Support…

This paper on underachievement in gifted students distinguishes between environmental, personal-neurological, and personal-psychological causes of underachievement. Characteristics of gifted underachievers are described, and strategies to change the pattern of the "personal-psychological" underachiever are discussed, with emphasis on coping…

Investigated relationship between interpersonal problems, coping style, and suicide risk among 71 adult psychiatric inpatients. Patients admitted with history of suicidal attempts were compared with patients admitted for other reasons. Interpersonal problems were significantly and positively related to suicide risk. Coping style of suppression was…