Undergraduates (N = 248) at a private, midsize, Mi dwestern university provided selfreports of their psychological problems, stress, demographic variables, and people to whom they talked when they had problems. Three patter ns of psychological problems emerged: internalized distress, alcohol abus e, and dy sfunctional eating. N either levels of psychological problems nor stress had much of a relationship to self-reported talking, although internalized distress predicted talking to a counselor. Gender, international student status, ethnicity, full-time versus part-ti me status, and major predicted talking to help sources. Females acknowledged talking more frequently, but genders showed the same preferences for help sources. The results raise i ssues of helping students, particularly those with alcohol ab use or eating problems, thr ough either ar enas or personnel whi ch are nontraditional.

This study sought patterns underlying a broad range of psychological problems in 248 undergraduates at a private Midwestern university by examining relations among 1) psychological problems significant in undergraduates and 2) potential correlates of psychological problems. Psychological problems examined were anxiety, depression, emotional stress, physical symptoms, amount and consequences of alcohol consumption, eating problems, and psychological traits associated with eating problems. Personal-emotional adjustment was included as the potential opposite of maladjustment. Factor analyses generally found two broad independent patterns constant across genders. Internalized Distress consisted of anxiety; depression; emotional stress; personal maladjustment; physical symptoms; eating problems; and eating traits. Alcohol Abuse consisted of amount and consequences of alcohol consumption. Multiple regression analyses indicated that whereas stressors were correlates of both factors, female gender predicted higher scores on Internalized Distress, while male gender predicted higher scores on Alcohol Abuse.

Mosher and Bond (this issue) suggest experimental designs that are not appropriate for the research purposes they criticize. In defending their own research, they make contradictory statements about the realism of their guided imagery procedure for simulating rape. They present data that we believe provide evidence for the possibility that wrongful harm occurred in their previous research. We assert our right to study the ethics of research and object to specious charges of having threatened sexual freedom and being associated with ideologues of the right and left.

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