The semantic differential was used to assess the properties of affect elicited by occupational stimuli. Vocationally committed men studying medicine, business, and engineering responded to a semantic differential containing occupational concepts. Results show a semantic space for all three groups composed of three orthogonal dimensions of affect…

A total of 57 7- and 8-year-old subjects matched on measures of socioeconomic status, locus of control, need for social approval, and self esteem were assigned to two affect conditions and one control condition. Subsequently they were exposed to a resistance-to-temptation task involving play with a forbidden toy. (GO)

Teachers should encourage children to write in order to help them understand their feelings of anger, hurt, guilt, and so on.

This article reports an empirical study of loneliness among 158 senior citizens living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Respondents each completed a self-administered questionnaire. Greater loneliness was associated with less friendship contact, fewer close friends, social anxiety, ineffectiveness in influencing others, low marital satisfaction, and low…

Michael Maccoby, in a study of 250 top management personnel, has identified four species of managers. Some educational leaders may be like the corporation executives Maccoby calls "gamesmen." They are team players, love to win--and lack compassion. (Author/MLF)

Activity group guidance is a method that may help counselors bring new vitality into their schools by integrating the affective and the cognitive and by helping students learn by doing. (Author)

Discusses how affective goals in science education can be identified. The discussion includes (1) the common definition of affective domain; (2) Krathwohl's taxonomy of affective objectives; (3) self-concept objectives; (4) evaluation of outcomes; and (5) developing behavioral objectives dealing with the affective domain. (HM)

This study sought to determine if the viewing of a film depicting issue-oriented teaching situations, with subsequent discussion and personal evaluation, could alter attitudes about teaching held by preservice teacher candidates. (MJB)

It was hypothesized that normal community college students could become happier if they could modify their behaviors and attitudes to approximate more closely the characteristics of happier people. The resulting self-study program may be helpful to individuals wishing to increase emotional satisfaction they derive from living. (Author)

Experimenter modeled affectionate physical contact in group of preschool children who imitated the behavior. This induced significant increase of affectionate behavior during free-play period. A group which imitated "neutral" physical contact and another that had imitated "warm" verbal contact did not show significant increase in affectionate…

Available from: Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091. A followup study of 60 children (from kindergarten through third grade) in a middle to low socioeconomic area identified factors which qualitatively differentiate educationally high-risk and non risk children. (BD)

Examined with 15 mothers and their handicapped infants was the influence of infant behavioral expressions of affect on maternal caretaking behaviors. (IM)

Presents a developmental study of changes in infant attachment behaviors. Five groups of female infants, 8, 11, 14, 19, and 24 months of age, were observed during varying types of separation experiences. Changes in proximity behaviors and contact behaviors were analyzed. (BD)

Findings indicate the Beck Depression Inventory is a valid instrument for use in a college population. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient between the inventory and psychiatric estimate fell to .30 in a second sample in which one-14 days intervened between administration of the inventory and the psychiatric interview (N=27). (Author)

Available from: Special Education in Canada, Dave Muir, Subscription Manager, 12 Doucett Place, Scarborough, Ontario M1G 3M2. Five affective educational resources are described for teachers. (CL)