The author of this booklet discusses reasons for anger and ways of coping with it. When anger erupts in a classroom, it may be the result of cultural conditions that produce frustration and tension or adult-caused frustrations that could be avoided, such as rigid rules or lack of respect for the child. In discussing the characteristics of anger,…

Research is presented that is derived from the hypothesis that a person's interpretation of emotional stimulus is affected by the painted hue and the light intensity of the visual environment. The reported experiment proved in part a null hypothesis; it was suggested that, within the considered variables of the experiment, either a person's…

The relationship between prior and present socioeconomic status and 10 symptoms of social and psychological stress were examined for mobility effects. The analysis was confined to a 5-year, intragenerational mobility panel from 2 Illinois regions--Putnam County and segments of 3 other adjacent counties in north-central Illinois, and a portion of…

The basic objective of this monograph is to present and review a few selected theories of person-environment interaction which have stimulated meaningful research. Five theoretical viewpoints are included: Barker's theory of behavior settings, the subcultural approach, Holland's theory of personality types and model environments, Stern's need x…

The authors construct a model of psychosocial maturity which specifies measurable attitudes and dispositions in personal and social growth for secondary school students. Through integrating sociological and psychological views, the model outlines the following general dimensions of maturity relevant in all societies: (a) the capacity to function…

The ability of naive listener-judges to recognize the affective state of a speaker on the basis of nonlinguistic auditory cues independent of the verbal content of an utterance has been well established by a large number of studies. This study used artificial stimuli produced by a Moog synthesizer to vary pitch level and variation, amplitude level…

Hyperactivity continues to be one of the major symptoms presented to the school psychologist when children are referred for help. This paper discusses the development of a program of sequential motor exercises to train and develop the inhibitory function of the hyperactive child. The inhibitory training program is designed to follow the natural…

Gotts' hypothesis that manifest anxiety in children is related to societal restrictions was examined by comparing the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale results of Mexican boys and girls with previously published results of American, Israeli, and Japanese children. The Mexican sample was selected to represent a high sex-role differentiation society…

Two hundred seven parents of patients at the St. Louis University Orthodontic Clinic chose ideal male and female profiles from groups of five profile drawings ranging from severely retregnathic to severely prognathic. In addition, they completed a self concept questionnaire (Bills Index of Adjustment) and picked from the profile drawings of the…

Students (N=49) in an undergraduate educational psychology course designed and conducted behavioral self-modification projects. Correlation and regression analyses suggested weak but significant relationships between self-modification outcomes and a linear combination of dogmatism, sex, and mathematical aptitude variables. The effects of demand…

Discusses two extreme theories about the social development of a child: "sociocentrism" considers the social integration of the individual as adaption to societal standards, attitudes, patterns, and language; "pedocentrism" sees development as a result of previous psychological aptitudes within the child. Notes problems associated with each…

This paper examines racial differences in life satisfaction for a national sample drawn from the 1973 social survey of the National Data Program for the Social Sciences conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. It is found that blacks were less satisfied with life than whites, although this phenomenon was found to be considerably less…

Independent scores for masculinity and femininity were derived from the California Psychological Inventory responses. High masculine/high feminine were regarded as the most psychologically healthy, and low masculine/low feminine as the most inadequate. High masculine/low feminine and low masculine/high feminine were viewed as cultural sex…

The author describes the nature of the rural poor in southern Appalachia, with emphasis on the elderly and their attitudes toward health practices and medical care and their resistance to change. He concludes that problems of health care delivery have no easy solution. (MF)

Suggests that separated individuals not only want to rejoin their spouses but also want to express anger with them. They may manage the resulting ambivalence by partial suppression, by compartmentalization, or by alternating expression positive and negative feelings. (Author/AM)