The effects of extent and kind of external control during training on later resistance to temptation were examined in preschool children. Boys transgressed significantly more quickly than girls. (ST)

This article reports a project in which students in a college level adjustment course were taught to apply a model of behavior change in order to gain greater control over their own behavior. Pilot data suggest that students found the experience worthwhile, that many of them learned to make substantial changes in their behavior. (Author)

The present study showed that the inconsistent results with regard to the relationships between locus of control, school achievement, and intelligence are at least partly due to the fact that the various methods used to assess locus of control are sufficiently different not to be equally applicable in all situations. (Author)

Results of study show mothers play more important role than fathers in their sons' acquisition of self control; a primary factor is the mother's course of action after her son has disobeyed familial or societal rules. (Author/SP)

Intervention packages-planned units of instruction and practice designed to deal with specific student problems-offer a systematic economical strategy for counseling. This article suggest guidelines for developing and administering intervention packages. (Author)

Presents a useful psychological model of managerial behavior using the concepts of Gestalt psychology. (AN)

Reports a test of the efficacy of time-limited, cognitive-behavioral group treatment with parents who maltreat their children. Intervention focused on providing access to models of effective parenting, giving detailed feedback on parenting skills, building social skills, promoting awareness of cognitive precursors of anger, and enhancing…

The authors examine the importance of self-direction in education and review efforts to activate this skill in severely mentally retarded pupils, 16-19 years old. Such an approach to develop shared regulation in the curriculum features such strategies as verbal elaboration, imagery, auditory rehearsal, clustering, and sequencing. (CL)

Argues that in order to understand how the capacity for altruism develops and comes under self-control it is necessary first to understand the nature and development of the self-control. (MP)

Skin temperature biofeedback performance was studied in 38 6- to 10-year-old children and 38 of their parents across two sessions of audio biofeedback segments in which participants alternately attempted hand-warming and hand-cooling. Children were superior to adults in controlling skin temperature in the presence of biofeedback. (Author/DB)

Learning disabled (LD) children react to hurt and rejection by selecting from a number of poor choices, including giving up or throwing a tantrum. A teacher can help the LD child through a reality program which includes 10 steps to better control. (CL)

Assessed the utility of alpha biofeedback training in the treatment of patients (N=66). Biofeedback and placebo biofeedback groups were given alpha or mock-alpha training sessions. Improvement on 54 variables was compared to that of no-treatment controls. Only a chance number of significant changes appeared among the groups. (Author)

Subjects were assigned to conditions based on smoking rates: self-monitoring nicotine plus health hazard information; self-monitoring cigarettes plus health information; and self-monitoring cigarettes with no health information. Nicotine self-monitoring groups showed greater reactivity. Exposure to health hazard information had no effect. (Author)

Compared rapid smoking (overt aversion), covert sensitization (symbolic aversion), and a combination of the two in a self-punishment procedure for eliminating cigarette smoking. Training sessions were spaced over a one-month period. The overt group achieved significantly greater reduction than the symbolic group. The combined group did not differ…