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Excessive entitlement -an exaggerated or unrealistic belief about what one deserves -has been associated with a variety of maladaptive behaviors, including a decline in motivation and effort. In the context of tertiary education, we reasoned that if students expend less effort to obtain positive outcomes to which they feel entitled, this should have negative implications for academic performance. We tested this hypothesis in a naturalistic experiment in a large course, in which students' self-reported entitlement attitudes (measured at the beginning of the semester), the idiosyncratic difficulty of the class, and several other individual difference variables associated with academic achievement (personal responsibility, frustration intolerance, and locus of control) were used to predict final exam performance. As expected, greater entitlement was associated with poorer final exam marks, particularly among students for whom the class was objectively challenging. Although no other personality variable qualified the interaction, the extent to which students accepted responsibility for their performance mediated the main effect of entitlement, while external locus of control independently predicted poor exam performance.

Four measures of death anxiety were compared to examine accuracy in classifying 87 subjects who would tour a funeral home (low death anxiety) or 74 subjects who would not tour a funeral home (high death anxiety). All measures were accurate, and none was superior to the others.

This discussion describes a program that was developed to provide an opportunity for children of farm workers to accrue academic credit toward graduation. It was also designed to include intense interaction between the students and educators. This program illustrates how multicultural awareness can be developed within a relatively short period of time through immersion in experiences and by providing appropriate incentives. Se describe un programa que se desarrolló para dar una oportunidad a los hijos de agricultores para ganar créditos académicos para graduarse. También lo diseñaron para incluir interación intensa entre estudiantes y educadores. Este programa muestra como se puede desarrollar un conocimiento multicultural en relativamente muy poco tiempo a través de la inmersión en experiencias y dando incentivos apropriados.

The treatment of panic disorder during pregnancy and lactation poses special problems. It is important that both the practitioner and patient consider a number of issues to find the most appropriate treatment for the patient. New cognitive-behavioural treatment options often circumvent the problems of pharmacotherapy for pregnant or lactating women while providing therapeutic benefits which are at least equivalent.