Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other test data that describe self-evaluation and self-activity are worth noting, although they depend on significant differences in only the 1964 sample. The psychiatric group was lower on the Self-Acceptance Scale and higher on the Anxiety Scale. There was also an interesting difference on the Expected Control Scale of the FIRO. This test is designed to measure factors in interpersonal relationships or interpersonal needs. Expected control assesses the extent to which the individual anticipates he can and will exert control over others. To that extent, a low score represents some feeling of a lack of effectiveness...
...theme that appears in two other studies is that of dissatisfaction and depression. A study at Oxford by by Davidson and Hutt found that psychiatric patients had a significantly higher score than controls on the Depression Scale of the MMPI. Like the Harvard Study, that from Yale found dissatisfaction to be much more lent among the psychiatric patient. We might not be surprised to find some depression early in college because of the mourning involved in the break from home. Also we might expect some depression due to loss in self-esteem when students meet stiff competition at college...
...tung came to power in the traditional way, by slaughtering his enemies. By operating on a grand scale, he even gained temporary control of the cities. Now he is reaping his reward...
...Negro, discrimination begins at home. From the antebellum caste system, under which house slaves were considered superior to field hands, to the lingering feeling that a light-skinned Negro is higher on the social scale than a darker one, Negroes have traditionally suffered from their own, as well as the white man's, prejudices. The isolation of most affluent Negroes from the civil rights struggle has been part of the same pattern...
Crowds of New Yorkers surging past the Whitney Museum's Andrew Wyeth show (TIME, Feb. 24), which has already drawn 170,000 visitors, found themselves in for a delightful surprise when they reached the topmost gallery. There an almost cathedral hush was induced by a full-scale retrospective display of the work of Sculptor Louise Nevelson. Awed spectators moved from darkened room to darkened room, observing Nevelson's monumental spotlighted pillars and walls built of orange crates, dowels, spindles and other bits of wooden bric-a-brac but sprayed either all black, all white or all gold. America...