The Effect of Job Level and Amount of Information on the Evaluation of Male and Female Job Applicants

The addition of job-related information regarding an applicant's leadership ability reduced bias against female applicants applying for a managerial position.     

REACTANCE AND INTENTIONALITY ATTRIBUTIONS AS DETERMINANTS OF THE INTENT TO FILE A GRIEVANCE

Experimental studies were conducted in two unions to examine the effects of perceptual variables–namely, reactance and intentionality attributions–on the intent to seek redress from management action. Participants responded to a series of vignettes, each of which described a management action (formal punishment, informal warning, promotion denial) taken against an employee. The vignettes varied systematically in terms of the perceived threat to worker freedom posed by the action and the degree to which the action was motivated by a dispositional rather than an environmental attribution. Both studies demonstrated that greater threat and dispositional attributions provoked stronger intent to file a grievance. Implications of the findings were discussed for investigating and screening grievances.     

The Coping with Stress Model: A Counseling Approach for Families with a Handicapped Child

The authors describe a cognitive-behavioral model for coping with stress that counselors can use as the basis for family assessment and personalized intervention. The model, assessment procedures, and appropriate counseling strategies are discussed. Translation of the model into clinical practice is examined with families of handicapped young children. A brief case study is provided to illustrate the model's usefulness for counselors.     

Adjustment of intellectually below-average men not identified as mentally retarded

A study was made of the adjustment of adult persons who were intellectually belowaverage but had not been labelled as mentally retarded, with the aim of revealing any groups among them at potential risk of being labelled in the future. In connection with enlistment for military service, a sample of 19-year-old men of below-average intelligence and a control group of intellectually average men were selected. A cluster analysis of 22 adjustment variables in the intellectually below-average group gave four homogeneous clusters with respect to social and personal adjustment: A well-adjusted cluster, a personal problem cluster, a crime cluster and work problem cluster. The subjects of the crime cluster had grown up in big towns and their parents were registered in the files of the social welfare authoritis. Work problems had more frequently been preceded by problems at school. The crime cluster and the work problem cluster were considered to run the greatest risk of being labelled mentally retarded in the future.     

Operational interpretations for the G and Gm indexes of agreement

Operational proportional increase in agreement (PIA) and proportional reduction in error (PRE) interpretations are given for Holley and Guilford's G index of agreement and Holley and Lienert's G_m index of agreement.