Investigates the characteristics and quality of the image children have of aged persons and their grandparents. Children's drawings were compared for old age characteristics and deficits. Analysis of variance on sex, age, kinship with the stimulus person and sex of stimulus person was conducted. (Author/RH)

Describes advantages of "time line" therapy with 5- to 8-year-old children with history of traumatic experiences. Therapist draws line and, beginning with child's birth, marks below line traumatic events (divorce, hospitalizations, death, accidents). Above line therapist marks child's developmental behaviors and feelings about events.…

Subjects associated degrees of stress with experiences of social isolation and powerlessness. High internals reported higher stress than moderate or low internals. High internal clients reported lower self-esteem, higher stress, and less control over recent events than nonclients. (Author/BEF)

This paper argues that the emotions have a central place in moral education. Two types of emotions involved in moral judgment are defined: constitutive and regulative. Fear and guilt are used as paradigms to explain how emotions are learned. A model for education in conscientiousness, compassion, and benevolence is outlined. (Author/SJL)

Data is reported from a survey of freshmen and seniors in an Illinois high school on their concepts of death, the affective states associated with it, the need for further discussion about the subject, and the identities of those with whom such discussions might be initiated. (Author/SJL)

Fourth-, eighth- and eleventh-grade children were exposed in groups of four to short-term conditions of high or moderate spatial density involving close physical proximity. Physiological responses were measured during this exposure, and afterwards subjects engaged in a cooperation-competition activity and provided self-reports related to their…

The author analyzes the series form of television program, particularly the qualities and functions of the continuing characters and their relationship to the plot. He discusses the reassuring psychological effects of a TV series on the audience and the implications of a decline in this type of programing. (SJL)

Reports a study of developmental differences among 4-, 6- and 8-year-old children in physiognomic sensitivity, the tendency of a perceiver to suffuse precepts with an emotional, affective, or expressive quality. (Author/GH)

Negative attitudes, as expressed in humor, to aging, old age, and death were found by analysis of jokes in currently available jokebook anthologies. In particular, very negative attitudes to aging of women were found. Some ambivalence in attitude was discovered. (Author)

The psychological autopsy method was used to examine the effects of suicide on surviving family members. Structured interviews with subjects consecutively selected from coroner's records focused on the immediate impact of death; current understanding; and social, vocational, physical, and psychological effects seven months after the death. (Author)

Highlights findings of group discussions at The Mothers Center, Hicksville, New York. Focus was on obstetrician-patient relationship and the work of the Social Action Committee at the center. (BF/JH)

This study investigated the merits of various theoretical rationales for predicting viewers' affective responses to the expressed emotions of a protagonist. (Editor)

Caring can be shown by simply being with the other person, accepting all of that person as he or she is at that moment. To be with another may not call for any talking upon your part; perhaps it is much better not to talk. (Author)

Focuses on the emotional/cognitive processes associated with teacher ratings of empathic and socially competent behaviors. Results indicate that children (N=120) with higher empathy ratings and at higher grade levels received higher scores on a storytelling measure--the Thematic Apperception Test. Clarifies the social information processing of…

This study tested 192 women who had been sexually abused as children, to see if perceived stigma, betrayal, powerlessness, and self-blame mediated long-term effects of child sexual abuse. Levels of psychological distress experienced by adult survivors of abuse were found to be mediated by feelings of stigma and self-blame. (Author/PB)