The present article reports results from a content analysis of 103 newspaper reports taken from eight major Canadian newspapers, and selected at random from the Canadian Newspaper Index. The portrayal of mental illness and mentally ill persons in these reports was compared with that in samples of articles taken from two comparison mental health publications not receiving popular circulation. As compared with these latter publications, the content analysis indicated that the newspapers portrayed mental illness and the mentally ill in a manner which could be described as essentially pejorative, thus seeming to support frequent observations and complaints from the mental health establishment about inadequate or unfair coverage of mental illness in the popular print media. At the same time, the newspaper medium appeared to present more favourable images of nontraditional (example: community-based) mental health practices, than of traditional (example: hospital-based) practices. Implications of such results for the attitudes and beliefs of the general public vis-à-vis mental illness are offered, with special reference to the influence of the print media.

Individuals have been theorized to develop anaclitic and introjective depression to the extent that they may be characterized as dependent and self-critical, respectively (e.g., Blatt, 1990). Blatt's theory was applied to suicidal behavior to determine if suicidal behavior could also be reliably broken down into two distinctive types, with respect to a number of parameters. Sixty-four undergraduate students who had attempted suicide were interviewed, and the lethality of their attempts was assessed with the Risk-Rescue Rating scale (Weisman & Worden, 1972). Participants were also administered an Intent and Precipitating Events scale, a modified version of the BDI-II, and the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ). Self-critical individuals showed greater intent to die and greater lethality in their suicide attempts than did dependents. Self-critics were also more likely to attempt in response to an intrapsychic stressor, with the explicit motivation to escape. In contrast, dependents were more likely to attempt in response to an interpersonal stressor, with the motivation to communicate some form of unhappiness. Implications for suicide prediction and treatment are discussed, with special reference to the importance of identifying different suicidal subtypes.

One of the many problems confronted in society by the ex-mental patient involves the social stigma which adheres to identification with mental illness. The stigma of having been a patient has been taken usually to mean that the ex-patient will encounter discrimination, e.g., in employment opportunities, after discharge from a hospital. Another view holds that such discrimination now does not exist. The present study found, however, that persons identifying themselves as mental patients were refused rooms for rent significantly more often than were persons using no mental illness identification. Some implications of the results are discussed.

Following the procedure used by Broverman, Broverman, Clarkson, Rosenkrantz, & Vogel (1970), male and female undergraduates described a male homosexual, lesbian, and normal adult in terms of 41 adjective rating scales, each scale having a masculine and a feminine pole. Results indicated that compared to ratings of the normal adult, the male homosexual was viewed unfavorably and was significantly different from "normality" on 27 scales. Ratings of the lesbian were closer to those for the normal adult, although significant differences appeared on 11 scales. Ratings for the lesbian differed significantly from those for the male homosexual on 20 scales. On all but two scales, lesbian ratings were closer to the more favorable pole than were male homosexual ratings. The position seems supported that male gender nonconformity is viewed more seriously than female gender nonconformity.

The purpose of this study was to examine self-talk, year of university study, and gender as predictors of emotional intelligence in a diverse sample of 126 undergraduate participants (42 male, 84 female). Self-talk has been discussed in the literature as a means of enhancing selfawareness and self-regulation, both of which are considered important in the construct of emotional intelligence. Participants completed self-report questionnaires on selftalk and emotional intelligence. The results indicated that year of study and self-talk were significant predictors of emotional intelligence and were associated with emotional intelligence in a positive direction. Contrary to expectation, gender was not a significant predictor. The implications of the findings are discussed in terms of potential future research directions for the study of self-talk and emotional intelligence. ResumeCette 6tude avait pour but d'examiner le monologue interieur, l'ann^e d'etude et le sexe en tant que variables explicatives du quotient Emotionnel, aupr^s d'un Echantillon de 126 etudiants universitaires de premier cycle (42 hommes, 84 femmes). La litterature scientifique consid&re que le monologue interieur a pour fonction d'amEliorer la conscience de soi et la maitrise de soi, qui sont tous deux consideres comme des facteurs importants dans le construit du quotient emotionnel, Les participants ont rempli des questionnaires auto-rapportEs sur le monologue interieur et le quotient emotionnel, Les rEsultats indiquent que I'annee d'etude et le monologue intErieur constituent des variables prEdictives significatives du quotient emotionnel et qu'elles sont associEes positivement au quotient emotionnel, Contrairement aux attentes, le sexe des participants ne s'est pas revele comme prEdicteur significatif, Ces rEsultats sont discutes en termes de potentialites pour la recherche future sur l'Etude du monologue interieur et du quotient emotionnel.