Focuses upon the relationship between Holocaust experiences and postwar adaptational styles among survivors' families. Three general family types are associated with overall psychological responses: "families of fighters,""the numb family," and "those who made it." Some implications for psychiatric treatment and for…

The study investigated the effect of the use or nonuse of separate answer sheets on responses to affective instruments with respect to both instrument and subject characteristics. Results indicated significant score differences across scales with and without answer sheets. (Author/BW)

Reports application of "Repertory Grid Technique" to teachers' perceptions and evaluations of senior secondary pupils in two urban religious schools and a rural comprehensive school. Analyses were made of differences between teachers, individual grids, and the repertory grid data in comparison to pupils'"Sixteen Personality…

This paper briefly reviews various conceptions of adolescence, particularly Erikson's theories of identity development. It reports a study of Canadian high school females, classified as open/moratorium, closed/foreclosed, or diffuse. Characteristics of each of these student types are outlined and implications for education and counseling are…

Examines the family and work relationships of dual career couples and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these relationships. Various ingredients including personality traits that contribute to the success of the two-career partnership are listed. (RC)

Fifty-five college women enrolled in competency-based, humanistic, or self-directed educational programs listed reasons for program selection and completed personality inventories. The results question the assumption that different programs are for different personality types and suggest perceptions of purpose as more important factors. (MSE)

Examines types of adventure show content (violence, conflict, realism, and action) and viewer characteristics which may influence program liking. Findings suggest that the average viewer somewhat dislikes the typical violence portrayed in adventure shows; emotional conflict, however, seems to enhance liking for adventure shows. (PD)

Observations showed that the use of signs did not impede the development of speech. Instead it seems to increase the children's skill in lipreading, although the early use of written language may play a part by facilitating the encoding of lip movements. (Author)

A study of the function of leisure activities shows: people select leisure activities congruent with their personality; people in congruent occupations were vocationally satisfied and conceived their preferred activities as an extension of the activities they do at work; people in incongruent occupations compensate by selecting compensatory…

College art majors, art education majors, and nonart majors were compared on measures of brain hemisphere dominance, general intelligence, brain functioning, visual perceptual differentiation, grade point average, flexibility-rigidity, and personal-social adjustment. (SJL)

Argues that psychology instructors should capitalize upon students' eagerness for self-disclosure and that course material should be channeled toward meeting this need. Examines the use of specific personality inventory tests measuring memory, motivation, creativity, and emotion as a link between course material and the students' personal…

Since there is a moderate positive correlation between behavior and self-esteem, a teacher who desires to modify the classroom behavior of a student should follow a procedure that is congruent with enhancing and maintaining the student's self-attitude. (Author)

A group of 30 moderately and mildly retarded young adults (study group) was compared with a group of borderline retarded (control group) adults on employability, behavior at work, social integration and social skills, personaity, and self-concept. (Author/PHR)

Convergence between temperament ratings from two different sources (mothers and observers) and observer codings of peer-peer interaction was assessed. (Author/MP)