Reviews research concerning the usefulness of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in identification of alcoholics' personality characteristics. Discusses scales, profile configurations, and item analyses. Finds no single personality type characteristic of all alcoholics, although six cluster types occur with consistency. Alcoholics…

The proportion of cross-validated and suggestively discriminating items in the area of preference or aversion for a large variety of activities, most of all of which imply excitement or potential excitement, suggests this as the most important finding from the item analysis done in this study. (Author)

Studies the differences in personality functioning between persons who respond responsibly to their bills for psychological testing and those who respond irresponsibly. Results indicate that patients who were not accepting of the goals of personality evaluation and who were confused, appeared less likely to pay the psychologists fee. (Author/PC)

The results of this study present validity generalization for Sine's earlier work that the 4-3 MMPI code type is associated with violent behavior. When a person has 4-3 MMPI personality high points, it is highly probable that he is or has been violent. (Author)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (Chicago, 1968).

The paper briefly describes assessment practices in terms of their theoretical principles. The practices include: (a) the client is an informed participant even during the assessment process; (b) the referral is situated in terms of actual events; (c) life events are primary data, and test scores are secondary or derived data; (d) interpretation…

Thirty-five disadvantaged Negro 4-year-olds were observed by one or the other of two white male child psychiatrists during a 30-minute play session. After the session, the observer dictated a descriptive summary of the session. He filled out a rating scale on aspects of the child's behavior, including speech and play behavior, nature of social…

Position adopted in this study was that the underlying structure of what has been thought of as the masculinity-femininity variable is multidimensional, that a more valid description of MF would thus reveal a pattern and not a score. (Authors)

Cattell emphasizes that research on the personality structure should precede scale development; in this way, personality tests will approach the precision of ability tests. He discusses testing trends and the contribution of personality tests to the school setting--specifically to the prediction of achievement, underachievement, problem behavior,…

A phenomenological approach to the study of the self concept using photography was utilized in a counseling situation. The clients were asked to take or have taken 12 photographs in reply to "Who are you"? Clients in comparison with controls presented significantly more photographs of the past and of their family but significantly fewer…

The purpose of this study was to develop a psychometric evaluation technique which could be used to efficiently assess individual features of addiction treatment subjects which bear upon success of treatment. Previous administration of personality measures in two addiction treatment programs had revealed that successful and unsuccessful treatment…

A large-scale test development project at the Language Teaching Research Center of the University of Gothenburg aims to develop tests in English as a foreign language for use in various areas of business and public administration. After testing, certificates stating current proficiency level in each of the four language skills (listening, reading,…

REVISED AND REWRITTEN FROM THE 1945 EDITION, THE TEXT DESCRIBES AND ANALYZES THE RORSCHACH TEST. PART 1 OF THE VOLUME WAS WRITTEN BY SAMUEL J. BECK AND PRESENTS A VARIETY OF PERSONALITY PICTURES DRAWN FROM RORSCHACH PROTOCOLS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION. EXCERPTS FROM 29 CASE STUDIES ARE INCLUDED ON FIVE DIMENSIONS--THE INTELLIGENCE CURVE, YOUNG…