One-hundred-and-forty early and midadolescent males and females were interviewed to document the lower age boundaries of ego identity development in the content areas of vocational choice, religious beliefs, political philosophies, and sex-role preference. (Author/MP)

Explores psychological, political, and sociological impulses that underlie Black Americans' contact with and interest in Africa. Asserts that Africa and her American descendants can attain a high level of mutual understanding and solidarity only when Afro-Americans change their "American mentality" so that cultural elements of their "Africanness"…

Reports a study to determine if students perform better on test items containing references to their own sex than on neutral items or items containing references to the other sex. Results indicate a significant effect when a disproportionate number of items referring to one sex are cumulated over several tests. (Author/KC)

Tested the hypothesis that psychological androgyny permits greater behavioral flexibility and leads to better adjustment. Contrary to expectations, findings indicated flexibility and adjustment were associated with masculinity. Subsequent experiments revealed that feminine subjects prefer to become more masculine if possible. Results suggest an…

This study investigated the association between ownership of ethnic articles by a sample of Norwegian American women and predictive factors such as educational level of husband, social class, generation, travel to Norway, communication with relatives in Norway, and endogamy. (MC)

Elementary-level children were asked to coordinate perspectives on spatial stimuli with a normal observer, a blindfolded observer, and an inanimate doll observer. The lowest overall, as well as egocentric error rates, were noted for the normal observer condition with the remaining two conditions yielding similar trends. (Editor/SJL)

Reports results of a survey in which 200 teenaged girls indicated which television woman was like them, which one they would like to be like, which would be the best friend and the best mother, which women exhibited the most control over their situations, and which female television star most resembled the "typical American female." (GT)

Results partially support the hypothesis that the cognitive structure of in crisis statuses is characterized by higher levels of differentiation and articulation compared with the resolution status. Findings indicate that a synthesis of aspects of cognitive and ego psychology is highly desirable. (Author)

Significant interaction was found between conceptual level and type of affect. Females were more empathic than males, and responses to nonambivalent affect statements were more empathic than responses to ambivalent affect statements. (Author)

Analysis shows that whether the mother worked was the major background influence on dependent variables. Father's occupation had no significant independent effect. Identification with the mother and beliefs in individual achievement strongly influenced dependent variables. The choice of career pattern was a central one in girls' attitudinal…

In this study, a self-esteem maintenance model is introduced and is used to test predictions about sibling identification, sibling friction, and the closeness of father-son relationships as they relate to sibling performance. (Author/SS)

Israeli female college students participated in a study aimed at assessing women's personal aspirations about self-identity as compared with their perception of mother and father. Results indicate that the mother is perceived as responsible for the concrete stage, while the father symbolizes a further step of development. (Author/CMG)

Examines the relationship of perceived homophily to level of uncertainty, feeling good, and safety, as well as the relationship of level of uncertainty, feeling good, and safety to self-disclosure. Indicates that feeling good is the single best predictor of self-disclosive communication. (JMF)

Measures ethnic identity among three generations of Greek Americans living in the New York Metropolitan area. Shows that, though there is a generational variation, the majority of Greeks still have relatively strong attachment to their ethnic culture, despite their identification with American society. (Author/GC)

Membership in deaf communities in a metropolitan area is neither granted to nor sought by all who are deaf. Rather, it is achieved through indentification with the deaf world, shared experiences of being hearing impaired, and involvement with other members. (Author/EB)