If acting morally can be viewed as acting consistently with a moral principle or rule, then being a person with moral integrity can be viewed as consistently applying moral principles or rules across different types of situations. We advance a view of moral integrity that incorporates three distinct, but interrelated, types of moral consistency:…

The purpose of this quantitative predictive correlational study was to determine the extent communication style elements (expressiveness, preciseness, verbal aggressiveness, questioningness, emotionality, and impression manipulativeness) collectively and individually predict the technology integration of K-12 teachers in the Northwest Louisiana…

Based on the stage environment and the person environment fit perspectives, the current study examined the relation between school disciplinary policies and offending from adolescence into young adulthood. Using Waves I and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (a.k.a., Add Health), hierarchical multinomial logistic…

This article used an "inverse" approach to assess the validity of Holland's theory; that is, it examined the degree of congruency between participant's least-characteristic Holland types and their least desirable occupational choice. Implications for career counselors are briefly outlined.

Comments on the original article "A New Big Five: Fundamental Principles for an Integrative Science of Personality," by Dan P. McAdams and Jennifer L. Pals (see record 2006-03947-002). In presenting their view of personality science, McAdams and Pals (April 2006) elaborated the importance of five principles for building an integrated science of…

The assumption that effective leaders differ in some identifiable and fundamental ways from other people is still a large part of mainstream I/O psychology. Based on a research review on the trait theory of leadership and what is known about the concept of expertise, this paper attempts to find a convergence between leader and expert traits.…

A physiological basis for creative behavior is presented in the hypothesis that creativity is a problem-solving response by intelligent, very active, highly emotional, and extremely introverted persons. (Author)

Two samples of college undergraduates (N=103 and N=193) were asked to rate the degree to which each of 50 adjectives was applicable to their idea of a normal personality in an effort to determine the dominant characteristics in their conception of a normal personality. The resulting data were subjected to a maximum likelihood factor analysis. Four…

To pattern recent study on the Men's form of the SVIB, six scales were developed for the Women's form that mapped the vocational model of Holland's interest theory. The data were consistent with the correlations of the Holland-based scales with the basic interest scales and occupational scales now in existence. (Author)

Attempts to show one way in which cognitive theories can be used to draw implications about development during adolescence. Epstein's theory of self-concept (1973) is presented along with a discussion of Piaget's formal operations stage. (Author/RK)

It was found that the rank order of SVIB occupational groups supported Holland's assertation that occupants of each Model Environment demonstrate the appropriate Personality Type. (Author)