摘要:

Despite a growing interest in intimate conflict, little research has examined the variables that influence anger within an interpersonal context. Using the conflict topic of sexual jealousy, male and female undergraduate students were randomly assigned to high‐ or low‐power conditions prior to listening to an audiotaped conflict between intimates. Analysis of participants' affective responses to the conflict indicated that in spite of no initial differences in anger before hearing the conflict, there was a significant difference between power conditions in postconflict ratings: low‐power participants reported more anger than did high‐power participants. Similarly, women reported more anger than did men after hearing the conflict despite no preconflict differences. The results are discussed in terms of the influence of power and gender expectations on the anger dynamics of intimate conflict. Of special interest is the extent to which perceptions of power or powerlessness, ostensibly unrelated to the conflict, can shape affective reactions to c

ISSN:0021-9029    

DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1992.tb00973.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Ideas and theories from social psychology are often put to practical use. Sometimes these borrowed concepts and theories are carefully implemented, sometimes they are not. Education is a practical area where social psychology is often applied, sometimes without much care. As an example of the problem, this article examines how educators used self‐esteem to justify bilingual education programs for language minority students and whether this application of social psychology is warranted. We find that the postulated effect of bilingual educations on self‐esteem does not occur. Also, self‐esteem research and theory are misapplied in attempting to justify bilingual education with respect to its supposed effects on self‐esteem. Finally, we raise the question of what responsibility the field of social psychology has to correct misapplication of theory and c

ISSN:0021-9029    

DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1992.tb00974.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

A model of goal‐setting processes was developed that depicted the influence of previous performance, normative information, and self‐efficacy on personal goals and performance. Three levels of normative information were manipulated in a counter‐balanced fashion across two trials. Norms were hypothesized to have a greater influence than self‐efficacy on personal goals for the first trial, whereas efficacy was hypothesized to have a stronger influence than norms on Trial 2 goals. A sample of 135 undergraduates completed a practice and two performance trials of a word game, and the results were analyzed using LISREL structural modeling techniques. Although the general hypothesized model fit fairly well, the specific results concerning the relative impact of norms and self‐efficacy wereoppositeof the expected direction. Potential explanations for these results, and recommendations for future research ar

ISSN:0021-9029    

DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1992.tb00975.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Sets of individual‐psychological and sociodemographic variables for predicting self‐reported AIDS‐relevant behavioral change were examined. The self‐completing questionnaire used in the study contained scales of knowledge and attitudes about AIDS, sex and drug abuse experience scales, and six behavioral change scales. It was anonymously administered to 2,655 young people of both sexes, 15–30 years of age, living in 18 cities and towns, regularly employed or attending school. The overall level of knowledge was high and the attitudes moderately liberal. Regression analyses showed that only a small fraction of variance in any of the six behavioral change criteria (sex, drugs, personal concern, chance of contracting the disease, desire for more knowledge, and nonfunctional practices) could be attributed to the four predictors presumed to influence the criteria directly (sex risk index, drugs risk index, knowledge, and attitudes). The prediction improved when another 10 variables with assumed indirect influence were included. Socioeconomic status and the drug abuse risk index were most predictive of behavior change. Knowledge and attitudes proved to be poor predictors. It is stressed that the social and cultural specifics in planning prevention activities must be

ISSN:0021-9029    

DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1992.tb00976.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY