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The authors conducted an analysis of anger scripts in close relationships from a relational schema perspective focusing on the interpersonal experience of anger and on the sequencing of anger events. The amount of anger elicited by various instigating events was found to differ for women and men. More important, there was evidence of an interpersonal script for anger. Reactions of angry people were predicated on anticipated partner responses. Gender differences in interpersonal scripts were found only when the angered person chose to react in a negative way (e.g., aggression). Women and men held similar scripts for anger when the angered person reacted in a prosocial manner. Implications of these findings for script analyses of emotion and for close relationships are discussed.Anger,similartoanyemotion,isacomplexandmultifaceted phenomenon. Abelson (1981) pointed out, A sizeable set of inferences can be made from the knowledge that, say, "John is angry." A negative thing has happened to John; he blames it on someone; he regards it as unjust; he is aroused, flushed, and prone to swear or lash out; he may seek revenge on the instigator, and so on" (p. 727).

The Underwood Report (12) drew attention to the need for some system of classification in child psychiatry. This paper presents the results of a statistical study which was undertaken as relevant to that general enquiry.

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Objective: To measure the effects of providing a therapeutic community environment for patients suffering from severe mental illness.Method: 35 patients who remained in a therapeutic community environment for a minimum of 18 months were administered three instruments which measured psychiatric symptomatology (Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale), intrapsychic and interpersonal functioning (Therapeutic Community Questionnaire) and overall psychiatric and psychological functioning (Global Assessment Scale). Assessments were carried out at zero and 18 months.Results: The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale revealed significant positive changes on the two items of blunted affect and un-cooperativeness while the global assessment scale revealed that patients significantly improved after 18 months.Conclusion: Patients who remained in a therapeutic community environment for 18 months demonstrated benefits on three particular variables. While no causative link can be proposed in this study, it does seem that this environment does improve the functioning of severely mentally ill patients.

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The Ravens Progressive Matrices (RPM), a test of intellectual ability, was administered to 396 male narcotic users. Norms are given, and concepts basic to the validity and reliability of the RPM tested. Significant shifts were found in item order in sets A, B, C, and D. Differences were not considered crucial for each set, which was progressively more difficult than the preceding set; thus the total structure of the test was supported by the sample. The discriminative power of most items ranged from good to excellent. In investigating properties of distractors, answer four was chosen significantly more often than other alternatives as the wrong answer in sets C, D and E identifying the possible operation of a positional distractor. Test-retest reliability, content and concurrent validity coefficients were of the order of .8. Correlation of formal education with RPM was of the order of .2. Previously available normative data on patient samples ae extended and use of the RPM as a measure of intellectual performance relatively free from language and cultural bias is supported.