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Streiner, David L.; Miller, Harold R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
A table is provided and described for prorating Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scales when the entire Form R has not been completed. Good concordance of profile types was found for 300 and 350 completed questions. Interpretations based on 200 items may be suspect. (Author)
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Patients, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures
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Schwartz, Allan J. – Journal of American College Health, 2006
Are clients at college counseling centers more disturbed today than they were 5, 10, or 20 years ago? Since the mid-1980s, counseling center personnel have consistently perceived student clients as more distressed or reported acutely distressed clients as more prevalent than they did 1, 3, or 5 years ago. Only 3 studies employing a systematic,…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychopathology, School Counseling, Guidance Centers
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Thompson, Bruce; Melancon, Janet G. – 1995
This study was conducted to evaluate whether a brief self-description checklist may provide a viable method of quickly obtaining initial personality type information. The Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) were administered to 420 college students, and PPSDQ item-response and MBTI…
Descriptors: Check Lists, College Students, Evaluation Methods, Goodness of Fit
Ray, George B. – 1980
A study sought to determine what relationships existed between speech rate, speech pitch variation, speech loudness, and the personality assessments made by listeners. The subjects, 214 undergraduate speech communication students, listened to one of eight tape recordings made by a male speaker to represent all the combinations of the three…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
Thompson, Bruce; Arnau, Randolph C. – 1998
The Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ) (B. Thompson) was developed to measure personal preferences with regard to Jungian psychological types. Instruments in this area are among the most popular measures used in education and psychology; the measures are used in matching teaching and learning styles, in individual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Higher Education, Personality Assessment
Jacobsen, Linda S.; Borchardt, Gordon C. – 1980
In order to identify a battery of aptitude tests which could adequately predict the success of applicants to its court-reporting program, MacCormac Junior College contracted with Science Research Associates in Fall 1976 to conduct a longitudinal validation study of court-reporting aptitude measures. Eight tests were administered to each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admissions Counseling, Aptitude Tests, Clerical Occupations