Showing papers on "Happiness published in 1972"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between ego strength, happiness, and achievement plans of 162 senior college women in relationship to the traditional female sex role and found that ego strength may be negatively related to the adoption of the traditional male sex role.
Abstract: Sex-role concepts of 162 senior college women are explored in relationship to ego strength, happiness, and achievement plans. The majority of women believe it possible to assume the roles of wife and mother while concomitantly pursuing extra-familial interests. Neither happiness nor the establishing of relationships with men differentiated women traditional in sex-role orientation from women primarily interested in realizing their own potential. Differences in ego strength were found to be associated with plans for marriage and career: Subjects who obtained the highest ego-strength scores were actively pursuing both objectives. The latter finding suggests that ego strength may be negatively related to the adoption of the traditional female sex-role.
The traditional conceptions of masculine and feminine are [assumed to be] inappropriate to the kind of world we can live in in the second half of the twentieth century. An androgynous conception of sex role means that each sex will cultivate some of the characteristics usually associated with the other in traditional sex role definitions … tenderness and expressiveness should be cultivated in boys and socially approved in men … [and] achievement need, workmanship and constructive aggression should be cultivated in girls and approved in women [Rossi, 1964, p. 608].
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TL;DR: In this article, a total of 2,947 male and female students from the two senior years in 19 Adelaide secondary schools ranked sets of values from the Rokeach Value Survey, first in order of importance for themselves then in the order they thought their schools would emphasize them.
Abstract: A total of 2,947 male and female students from the two senior years in 19 Adelaide secondary schools ranked sets of values from the Rokeach Value Survey, first in order of importance for themselves then in the order they thought their schools would emphasize them. They then completed two measures of school adjustment: (a) a modified form of the Cornell Job Description Index and (b) a rating of happiness with school. As predicted, measures of school adjustment were positively related to the extent to which students' values matched school values but the correlations were quite low. Satisfaction scores and happiness ratings were higher in Independent schools than in State schools. Reported satisfaction with people in class was greater for girls than for boys and greater for students in co-educational schools than for students in single-sex schools. Girls also rated their happiness at school higher than did boys. Results were discussed in relation to the concept of person-environment fit and discrepa...
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TL;DR: The Theory of Moral Sentiments as discussed by the authors states: "There are evidently some principles in man's nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it."
Abstract: How selfish soever man be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.—Adam Smith inThe Theory of Moral Sentiments.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a hypothetical school, along with suggestions concerning the teacher-curricular composition that would help operationalize Maslow's theory in the schools, and the aim and objectives of the hypothetical school seek to reduce the animal in man and to produce truly human beings.
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01 Dec 1972
TL;DR: The Water-Method Man as mentioned in this paper is a novel about a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness who stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first.
Abstract: Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. "The Water-Method Man" is a work of cosummate artistry and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and psychological observation.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relationship between petting and marital success or failure and suggest that premarital petting is somehow related to marital success and failure, if absent, minimal or extensive in the life history of a person is predictive of marital success.
Abstract: The foregoing title conveys to both the layman and scientist several possible ideas as to the relationship between petting and marital success or failure. These are that premarital petting: (1) is somehow related to marital success or failure, (2) if absent, minimal or extensive in the life history of a person is predictive of marital success or failure, (3) in its relationship to marital happiness (or failure) has been researched to some extent.
TL;DR: A relationship was found between needs nurturance and abasement and perceptions of posthospital behavior, and (b) dominance and expectations of post hospital performance level.
Abstract: Three major problems were investigated to determine if selected psychological needs of former mental patients' wives were related to (a) perceptions of their husbands' posthospital behavior, (b) ratings of recalled marital happiness both before and since their husbands' first hospitalization, and (c) expectations of their husbands' posthospital performance level. Husbands' behavior ratings were made on the MACC Behavioral Adjustment Scale and the Coping Style Scale. The other major variables were measured by a Marital Happiness Scale and an Expectation-Insistence Scale. A relationship was found between (a) needs nurturance and abasement and perceptions of posthospital behavior, and (b) dominance and expectations of posthospital performance level.
TL;DR: The New York Review of Books as mentioned in this paper published 1,908 literary reviews or articles, of which 185, less than 10%, were written by women, and only five articles were by women (two appear as coauthors), six book reviews and four poems.
Abstract: York Review of Books, from its inception through July, 1971, there were (by my work-study student's rough count) 1,908 literary reviews or articles, of which 185, less than 10%, were written by women. Six women accounted for more than half of the female quota, three of them academics writing on their specialties, three of them writers and/or wives of prominent literary figures.1 Our young girl's chances wouldn't have been better on The New Republic. A letter in that journal on December 25, 1971, noted the results of a woman's search through its 1971 issues: of 450 signed articles, poems and book reviews, only five articles were by women (two appear as co-authors), six book reviews and four poems. "As a writer with her own share of query rejections from NR," she ends her letter, "I'd be interested to hear whether NR regards this 15 out of 450 rate as acceptable?" The editors' response was coy. And given what I can gather of Norman Podhoretz' views, it wouldn't be any easier to become a critic for Commentary. The title question's reference to The New York Review of Books should not suggest, then, that I mean to take sides in literary civil wars. The New York Review is one instance of the intellectual
TL;DR: A community, "Family by Choice" as mentioned in this paper, provided the possibility that 18 people join in an adjacent house, married with children, analysed, different ages, professions, backgrounds, had long known this community's unconventional way of life: wishing to share it, they made sacrifices.
Abstract: A community, ‘Family by Choice’, existing 17 years, provided the possibility that 18 people join in an adjacent house. The newcomers, married with children, analysed, different ages, professions, backgrounds, had long known this community’s unconventional way of life: wishing to share it, they made sacrifices. Left to evolve their own way of life without authoritative instructions (help, facilities provided), doubts about their choice crept in, despite initial happiness. ‘Family by Choice’ became, in their minds, a dictating, repressive authority. Group therapy clarified this confusion. After one year, despite remaining problems, these people do not wish to return to their previous life.
TL;DR: Mental hygiene deals essentially with the promotion of mental health among all people in general as well as with the prevention and early treatment of neuroses, psychoses, character and personality disorders, and other types of maladjustment of adults and children.
Abstract: Mental hygiene deals essentially with the promotion of mental health among all people in general as well as with the prevention and early treatment of neuroses, psychoses, character and personality disorders, and other types of maladjustment of adults and children. It concerns itself with the main objective of bringing about greater happiness, efficiency, and ability to get along with others. Mental hygiene is a composite science based on principles drawn from psychology, psychiatry, child development, education, sociology, anthropology, biology, and medicine. Child psychiatric services are not only useful for treatment of psychiatric disorders but are an endeavor in the field of mental hygiene.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that children need to be taught self-control, have a sense of responsibility and service, and recognize that you can't go through life doing just what you like.
Abstract: Parents should strive for two objectives in bringing up children: that their children should be happy and brought up prepared to face and deal with adult life. Happiness requires love, which is incomplete without respect, and much respect derives from discipline. For adulthood children need to be taught self-control, have a sense of responsibility and service, and recognize that you can't go through life doing just what you like.