Mediational models predicting college students' adjustment were tested using regression analyses. Contemporary adult attachment theory was employed to explore the cognitive/affective mechanisms by which adult attachment and perfectionism affect various aspects of psychological functioning. Consistent with theoretical expectations, results…

The purpose of the current study was to assess whether students differed by major or classification on self-reported symptoms of obsession and compulsion. Though sex differences have not been found on this construct, it was expected that students with different majors would require different levels of such characteristics in order to be…

This study examined the differences in family closeness and power structure between first semester college freshmen and upperclassmen. Fifty-two freshmen and fifty-four upperclassmen completed the Family Systems Test (Gehring & Feldman, 1988) to indicate the closeness and power structure in their immediate families. Aspen-Welch t-tests were used…

The California Psychological Inventory includes a masculinity femininity measure, Fe. Although the test author suggests that Fe is positively related to intelligence for females but negatively for males, a review of the literature fails to substantiate this claim. Correlation of Fe and intellectual measures is low in magnitude and is not different…

This article describes some of the "games" or roles delinquents play in order to achieve excitement and happiness within their lives. (JH)

The present study was designed to gather data relevant to the role of stimulus features as determinants of kind of emotion and the issue of differential information needs. (Author)

Discusses several common misunderstandings regarding theories of competence, especially that of psychological reality of competence formalisms. Argues that the claim of the psychological reality of a mechanism,'' as opposed to a structural description, is only appropriate when the mechanism accounts parsimoniously for the widest possible range of…

This study investigated the relationship between scores on the Defense Mechanisms Inventory and reaction to an experimental conflict situation in which Ss (85 undergraduate college students) were led to believe that their performance was deficient on a new test of scholastic ability. The pattern of defenses predicted residual posttest estimates of…

A surprising aspect encountered in this study was the reluctance of parents of daughters to complete the MMPI as compared to the willingness of parents of sons to complete the same form. (Author)

Somindence (sober mature independence) is found in the stolid, mature, independent; and by contrast, dissofrustance (dissociative rejection of frustrating ideas) characterizes the more careful, less enthusiastic person with increased dependence on external control. (Author/MB)

Data clearly failed to support the general hypothesis that active students would be quite similar to student activists along the dimensions studied; instead, when differences were found, the results tended to group active students with passive students and differentiate both from student activists. (Authors/MB)

Findings underline the importance of being concerned with a child's adjustment early, since later performance tends to relate significantly to it. (Authors)

A model is presented which illustrates the hypothesis that cultural differences among ethnic-religious groups give rise to differences in psychological dispositions which influence occupational achievement. (DM)