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Peer reviewedDodez, Orin; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Examined the relationship between anxiety and self-actualization in a sample of college students. Items (N=33) from the Personal Orientation Inventory were found to measure anxiety and scored negatively for self-actualization. Removal of anxiety items and rescoring yielded self-actualization measures related postively to anxiety test scores.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Development
Lifton, Peter D. – 1982
Historically, theories of personality development assigned prominence to the construct of autonomy, which often represented a developmental endpoint. To develop and validate an observer measure of autonomy and to further describe the dynamics underlying the personality and behavior of autonomous individuals, a 10-item scale (Auto CQ) was developed…
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedPiedmont, Ralph L. – Assessment, 1994
Reliability and construct validity of observer ratings on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) were evaluated in a sample of 101 college students and the observations of 2 people who knew each student. Results document the strong internal consistency of each scale and a factor structure replicating previous findings. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Friendship, Higher Education, Individual Development
