The present study sought to examine how reliable the "Personal Attribute Inventory" (Parish, Bryant, & Shirazi, 1976) is in terms of reliability discerning college students' "self-concepts," as well as their "ideal self-concepts." These students were all enrolled at a small, private, Midwestern university. They completed these survey twice, seven…

The authors list and discuss ten recommendations designed to make better students.

How do you perceive things? What perspective do you have on a particular situation? What these questions are pointing to is that our attitudes are like our mind's paint brush, because they can COLOR any situation. Well, in this paper it will be pointed out that our perceptions may be more important to us than reality. In fact, our perceptions (and…

This paper, entitled, "Eight Ways to Take More Effective Control of Your Life," provides some sound ideas regarding how to become more effective and efficient in your actions and your attitudes, by developing certain "choice" behaviors that should help you to avoid much stress and achieve greater success.

College student-athletes are often placed in the position of having to be successful on-and-off the playing field. To facilitate their various efforts the following "Ten Commandments for College Student-Athletes" are offered. These "Ten Commandments" should not only indicate to the student-athletes in question what they might be doing wrong, but…

In the present study, college student-athletes were either placed in seminars that were intended to motivate them to succeed on and off the field (i.e., in their chosen sport) or placed in a control group (i.e., a group that did not experience these motivational seminars). Consequently, they were surveyed in order to determine if the…

Studied the impact of mother loss on college students' (N=1,777) self-concept and evaluation of parents. Results indicated evaluations of mothers dropped significantly if they died, particularly for males if their fathers remarried or females if fathers did not remarry. Self-concepts were higher among males from intact families. (JAC)

Attempted to improve attitudes of college students toward various groups of special needs children through the use of a cognitive-experiential module. Treatment significantly reduced negative evaluations regarding ratings of physically handicapped, emotionally disturbed, and normal children and approached significance for retarded children.…