This document reports the results of two standardized instruments, the Survey of College Achievement (SCA) and the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI), as they were administered to a group of students at Empire State College in the fall 1971. The first ESC students appear to be, as a group, fairly independent with a well developed sense of…

Reaction formation was studied by Sigmund Freud. This defense mechanism may be related to repression, substitution, reversal, and compensation (or over-compensation). Alfred Adler considered compensation a basic process in his individual psychology. Anna Freud discussed some defense mechanisms, and Bibring, Dwyer, Huntington, and Valenstein…

The purpose of this study was to determine how reading achievement is affected by six independent personality factors (PF) exhibited by second-grade pupils. Personality factors involved are: (A) reserved vs. outgoing, (B) less intelligent vs. more intelligent, (C) feelings vs. emotionally stable, (D) phlegmatic vs. excitable, (E) obedient vs.…

Several writers suggest that reducing one's sense of individuality reduces social restraints. The author suggests that the effect of uniformity of appearance on aggression is unclear when anonymity is held constant. This poses a problem of interpretation given that a distinction must be made between lack of individuality and anonymity. One must…

This article provides a procedure for integrating personality testing in the marriage counseling process, a behavioral model for interpretation of the results, and research implications of such testing. Specific suggestions for administration, interpretation, and research are included. (Author)

Ausubel's theory of personality development in adolescence examines the role that social factors, especially parent-child relationships, play in the adolescent's struggle to find himself. An overview of this theory is presented and some parallels between it and Eriksonian theory are pointed out. Also examines some selected examples of research on…

Shostrom (1966) developed the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) to measure various aspects of self-actualization. A number of validity studies have been reported but only two reliability studies have appeared in the literature. This research reports a three-year study of personality correlates of student drug use at Lehigh University in which…

A model is presented which allows for the prediction of relationships among stimuli when stimulus responses are linearly related to squared distances between stimulus scale values and person scores along a latent continuum. Applications to developmental and attitudinal data are discussed. (Author/JKS)

This study was undertaken to test Dahlstrom's hypothesis that the clinical utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) could be improved through the use of dimensionally pure personality trait and psychopathological state scales to supplant the present dimensionally complex clinical and validity scales. Results failed to…

The existence of two different approaches to the theoretical understanding of social behavior is noted. Presents a systems model as offered by Talavage and compares it with Rotter's social learning theory. (Editor/RK)

The relationship of personality to performance in sports activities appears to be limited. (MB)

Argues that five stages in the development of self concept can be recognized with a different type of self esteem being appropriate to each stage. The stages are: the dynamic self, self-as-object, self-as-knower, self-as-intergrated-whole, and the "selfless" self. (MS)

College students and working youth between the ages of 18 and 21 were approached in public places and asked to volunteer for an interview. A total of 57 participants responded to a semistructured Ego Identity Status Interview and an Ego Identity Incomplete Sentence Blank. (JMB)

Calculated two-point Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory codes for 403 convicted sex offenders, yielding 43 code types. Sex offenders showed more 4-5 and 4-8 profiles than did other prisoners. Rapists showed more profiles associated with assaultiveness. There were significant differences in code frequencies between incestuous biological…