Eight model competencies for attending behavior are presented. The data which are presented indicate that these competencies can be measured reliably. Although these competencies were developed for use with microcounseling training, they are easily adaptable to other training programs. (Author)

This survey of 11-, 12-, and 15-year-old English schoolchildren suggests that (1) at each level of family environment, increases in affective characteristics are associated with increments in cognitive scores, and (2) at each level of attitudes toward school and locus of control, increases in family environment scores are related to increments in…

A reanalysis of subjects' responses to a Psychology Today sex questionnaire demonstrated that the relationship between extramarital sex (EMS), self-reported marital satisfaction, and divorce varies differentially for men and women by length of marriage. (Author)

Incorporates measures of family environment (parent-child interaction) into research methodology to study the effects of sibsize (family size and birth order) on a child's cognitive performance and affective behavior. Provides tentative support for the confluence model of sibsize influences on children's behaviors. (RL)

The intellectual framework of law and the legal profession in the U.S. is examined in terms of the unarticulated value system of legal education. Sources of the value system are discussed along with implications as viewed from a moral and religious perspective. (LBH)

Third- and fourth-graders studying a weather unit taught from an affective approach retained the material better than a control group taught by traditional methods when tested six weeks after completion of the unit. (MM)

An affective education teaching model is outlined defining a continuum of affective development and the resulting range of approaches possible at present and in the future for meeting affective goals. (MB)

Research that has examined anxiety and stressful attitudes toward mathematics is reviewed and updated. (DEP)

Movement exploration allows for a variety of activities emphasizing movement, while developing self-confidence, self-discipline, and self-direction through physical education. (Author/MB)

Values clarification, a relatively new form of humanistic education, was compared with a traditional lecture-discussion approach to teaching a survey course in health science to undergraduates. It was concluded that the objectives of a survey course in health science may be equally attained by either of the instructional procedures. (Author)

Community is most meaningful as it has an impact on the lives of all its members, so exhilarating because it is seldom experienced in an educational setting. Hopefully, the focus of education could be "learning how to live" not just "learning how to make a living". (Author)

A comprehensive alcoholism treatment approach is proposed. Specific strategies are described that can enhance treatment success by reducing resistances and maximizing changes in dysfunctional family interaction patterns. Presented at the October, 1976 Annual Convention of the Gennessee Valley Psychological Association, Rochester, NY. (Author)

Examined the influence of maternal differential behavior and child temperament on sibling relationships. Forty pairs of four-to-nine-year-old siblings and their mothers were observed playing in sibling dyads and mother-children triads in their homes. Mothers provided temperament ratings of their children's activity, emotional intensity, and…

Examined parents' responses to emotional distress in their preschool children and assessed the relation of these responses to children's competence. Data on parent-child interactions was collected for 30 families by means of home observations, parent self-reports, observer ratings, and child interviews. Preschool competence was assessed by teacher…