The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) is a relatively new, 44-item instrument designed to measure anger as a situational emotional response (state) and as a predispositional quality (trait). The STAXI also contains three scales designed to assess three different dimensions of the expression of anger: (a) Anger-In, (b) Anger-Out, and (c) Anger-Control. This study was designed to examine the factor structure of the STAXI. A sample of 455 college students were administered the instrument, and a principal axis factor analysis with varimax rotation was performed for the 44 items. Additionally, coefficient alpha for each scale and scale intercorrelations are reported. The results of the factor analysis are similar to the scale structure claimed for this instrument.

This study was designed to explore sex differences along several affective dimensions. A sample of 455 undergraduate students was administered several affective scales. A discriminant analysis was performed using the affective scales as discriminating variables and sex as the group variable. Significant sex differences were found on only two of nine affective scales, and the substantive significance of these differences seems to he minimal. The authors concluded that the promotion of faulty stereotypical beliefs should be abandoned in favor of increasingly complex inquiry in this area.

This article describes the use of positive reframing in the context of supervision. Supervisors encountering resistance from their supervisees can use positive reframing as a way to reduce threat and promote growth. A rationale is developed for using reframing with supervisees. The positive reframes are designed with an emphasis on the supervisee's experience of personal power and self‐esteem. The supervisor capitalizes on the experience by modeling for the supervisee how to resolve the situation. Examples are presented and limitations are outlined.

To investigate the relationship between theoretical orientation and self-perception of their own family-of-origin functioning, 127 psychologists completed the Theoretical Orientation Survey and the Family-of-Origin Scale. Stepwise multiple regression analyses revealed that perceptions of one's family-of-origin environment have a significant relation to subsequent theoretical orientation. The most influential family-of-origin characteristics identified were range of feelings expressed, prominence of empathy, and openness to others.

This study examined the relationship between parental alcoholism, family-of-origin functioning, and current marital satisfaction. Results indicated family-of-origin functioning is positively related to marital satisfaction. In addition, individuals with alcoholic parents reported lower family-of-origin functioning, and an interaction between gender and parental alcoholism was found for marital satisfaction.M arital satisfaction has been a frequent topic in the professional literature for several decades. A number of variables have recently been examined in relationship to marital satisfaction including stressful life events that have received only limited attention in the marital satisfaction literature have been family-of-origin functioning and parental alcoholism.In examining the relationship between family-of-origin issues and marital relationships, Fine and Hovestadt (1 984) found that individuals with healthier perceptions of their family of origin had more positive perceptions of marriage. Although these individuals did not discuss their own marriages for this study (all participants were single), the results indicated that positive family-of-origin experiences are related to positive perceptions of the institution of marriage.When examining the relationship between one's own marital satisfaction and family of origin functioning, Wamboldt and Reiss (1989) found that women who had greater expressiveness in their family of origin had higher current marital satisfaction. Similarly, Booth and Edwards (1989) found that negative family-of-origin experiences, in the form of parental divorce, were adversely related to subsequent marital relationships. In addition, even in those families in which parents remained married, poor family-of-origin experiences were related to numerous marital and family diffi-James L.