To observe the impact of teachers' verbal behavior upon the verbal behavior of students, 12 intermediate grade teachers and their classes were identified in 10 rural schools near Fresno, California. The 10 schools were chosen to participate in the study because of their in-service teacher program. Teachers from five randomly selected schools…

This paper presents some empirical findings from the part of the International Socialization Project (an effort to collect more information about the socialization of sport involvement) which dealt with the attitudes of Swedish adolescents toward Olympic games. Attitudes towards the games are regarded here as indicators of affective involvement in…

The author examines the loneliness of dying for the person facing death and for his or her loved ones. He also discusses the agony of grieving, be it for the death of a loved one, the loss of a marriage, or even the termination of a life-fulfilling position. (Author)

Compulsive eating (uncontrolled overeating that is not related to hunger) was investigated in 279 college women with the use of a self-report questionnaire. Results indicated a relationship between unpleasant affective states (boredom, depression, anxiety, loneliness, anger), a calming effect of eating, and compulsive eating. Implications for…

This study examines the utility for understanding loneliness of a model of social identity intended to represent the psychological effects of demographic variables and their interactions. The results are discussed in terms of the contribution of the identity model to predicting and understanding the relationships of social structure to loneliness.…

The training of counselors is skewed heavily to the development of inferential skills. This article suggests that counselor educators give more training attention to intuition and presents some preliminary guidelines for providing that training. (Author)

Using a sample of 686 married Irish women in Cork City the Bott hypothesis was tested, and the results of a multivariate regression analysis revealed that neither network connectedness nor the strength of the respondent's emotional ties to the network had any explanatory power. (Author)

This article summarizes the results of a survey of 100 secondary school guidance counselors on the current status of measuring student affective outcomes. (DS)

Studied were the responses of infants to new toys presented with either positive, negative, or neutral affective displays by mothers. Responses to stimulus toys were compared with responses to free play toys. Maternal displays influenced responses only to stimulus toys. (PCB)

Three films recommended for class use are reviewed. Five other films are noted briefly. The films deal with affective issues such as handling rejection, being bullied, and being self-conscious. (MT)

Maintains that grief and other emotional behaviors and feelings associated with the death of a child can be most effectively managed when they are acknowledged and shared. (BB)

Investigation of the effects of an in-school curriculum designed to encourage children's awareness of and attention to television's prosocial portrayals revealed that the curriculum was successful in helping children to isolate and identify commercial television's prosocial fare. (Author/CB)

Argues that depression may be viewed as one of several normal affective developments of pregnancy rooted in some of the physiological events of gestation and that identification of depression during pregnancy may be difficult (but nonetheless important) because the symptoms of pregnancy and depression are confounded. (Author/ABB)

This study investigated the emotions involved in the writing process by analyzing a short inventory completed by 87 novice writers before and after self-sponsored and required writing exercises. Results are presented. (Author/MT)

Presents results of a cross-validational test of previous findings that men and women express depression differently. Reports that when depressed, females are more prone to somatic symptoms, self-deprecating statements, and less selectiveness than males in seeking out others. Qualifies findings, however, by posting a possible gap between reported…