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This paper coin pares the conceptions of mental illness held by a group of psychiatrists and a random sample of the general public in the same locality. The hypothesis was that the public, but not the psychiatrists, would tend to consider troublesome behavior as being more indicative of mental illness than non-troublesome behavior. Statements representing five pairs of troublesome non-troublesome types of behavior were rated by both groups as indicators of mental illness. Analysis of the data, using the statements at face value and with a weighting system, did not support the hypothesis. Both public and psychiatrists appear to have similar views but not in the expected order. Most notably, manic behavior ranked very low among the conceptions of mental illness. This finding accords with recent reports of a decline in the incidence of manic- depressive psychoses. Is this decline due to changes in modern society that alter public and psychiatric conceptions of mental illness? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Auditory vigilance of normal, behavior disordered and brain damaged children was investigated. A 20-minute tape recording of a series of randomized digits was played to each subject Interspersed at irregular intervals a stimulus number was presented for detection. The results showed that the normal subjects detected far more signals than the brain damaged and behavior disordered subjects, and that the brain damaged subjects missed more signals than the behavior disordered subjects. Results confirmed the hypothesis that normal subjects would miss fewer signals because they accumulate less reactive inhibition; that brain damaged children would reveal extraverted behavior patterns; and there would be a progressive deterioration in vigilance as a direct function of time for all subjects. The implication is that work tasks for behavior disordered and brain damaged children should be kept as short as possible to prevent accumulation of any significant amount of reative inhibition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the effect of radical social changes on personality development, based on the residents of two communities in the U.S. Predicted a number of behavioral and underlying personality differences involved in behavioral settings. Teacher's apprehensiveness increased in proportion to the number of incidents involving colleagues, regardless of ideological position. Studying instruction method on acceptance of food in a survival kit. Identifies the correlation between various types of classroom socioemotional structures and mental health.

Much concern has been voiced for the effects of overpopulation on the patterns and quality of contemporary life. However, little has been written or noted about the effects of overpopulation upon the development and expression of mental disorders. Through factor analysis of a symptom checklist administered to urban male Filipinos, three distinct symptom patterns are identified as being strongly associated with the number of people in the dwelling. One pattern is characterized by psychosomatic difficulties and alienation anxiety, another by arousal and withdrawal behaviors, and the third by anxiety and eruptive violence. Interpretations of the development of these patterns are offered and the importance of this type of research cited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]