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A regression equation indicated that five variables predicted 36 percent of the variance of the role taking scores. These predictor variables were the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) Vocabulary score, Matching Familiar Figures errors, sex, neighborhood, and lateral dominance. (Author/DLS)

Results suggested that when role taking is viewed as requiring a shift to less subjective views, different types of role-taking skills (communicative, spatial, relational, and cognitive) are moderately related. Results also indicated intellectual ability underlies these role-taking skills. (Author/DB)

Human figure drawings of patients with severe (n = 85) and mild (n = 38) psoriasis were compared on dimensions of nudity, sexual overemphasis, and omissions of exposed body parts. For female patients significant differences were found for percentages of undressed figures and omissions. For male patients only omissions were significant. When compared to 30 patients with other mild dermatologic conditions, mildly affected psoriatic males drew significantly fewer omissions. Discussion of results focussed on body image concerns, of dermatology patients as related to issues of nudity, sexuality, and exhibition of exposed body parts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of two factors in increasing responsiveness of psychologists to mailed surveys--perceived normativeness of responding and implied threat of a follow-up approach--were studied in a factorial design. The 468 nonresponders to the initial mailing of a questionnaire were randomly assigned to one of four follow-up conditions generated by the independent variables: Consensus-Threat, Consensus-No Threat, No Consensus-Threat, and No Consensus-No Threat. There were no significant effects on frequency of response, but there was a significant Consensus x Threat interaction for speed of response. Ss in the three conditions containing a manipulation responded more quickly than those in the No Consensus-No Threat condition. These results suggest that either normative information regarding compliance of colleagues or implied threat of being approached again can speed responses to mail surveys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Additional Test Evaluating the Psychosocial Status of Psoriasis Patients," that was published in the May 16, 2006 issue.