Article takes the position that it is possible to identify personality characteristics likely to predispose a student to perform better under one teaching approach rather than another. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in the development of certain personality characteristics between students in a team teaching situation and students in a self-contained classroom. The results suggest that the team-taught students seem to be more self-assured and controlled, with a lesser need for attention and success.…

Students enrolled in a community college were given the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule. Those students enrolled in transfer programs were compared with those students enrolled in terminal programs on each scale, with sex and socioeconomic status factors controlled. Differences were found in dominance, heterosexuality, aggression, endurance,…

The data shows that productivity in terms of word frequency or story length in children is considerably less than that typically encountered in most adult populations. (Author)

Results strongly supported previous findings with respect to a substantial degree of association between marijuana use and certain of the Comrey Personality Scales. (Author/CB)

It was concluded that level of adjustment measured by the PSI is not a personality dimension that offers reliable diagnostic discriminations between clients with self-diagnosed vocational and educational problems. Counselors wishing to make the distinction between V and E clients must depend on the person's self-diagnosis and a complete…

The Ss who were told that the interpretation was derived for them from their psychological tests rated the interpretation as more descriptive of their personalities than Ss told that the interpretation was generally true of people. (Author)

Explained for the parents of handicapped children are the purposes and rationale of personality tests as part of a battery of psychological tests involved in comprehensive psychological evaluation. (KW)

Based on the theoretical model of Erik Erikson's eight ages of man, the author considers the differences in adjustment at each age which could be expected among the aurally handicapped. (KW)

Correlations were obtained between scores on personality variables reflecting the components of psychosocial development described by Erikson and measures of the expectations of college held by entering students. Results indicate that successful psychosocial development is related to high expectations concerning the faculty, the administration,…

It was found that (a) later borns from two-child families were more external than those from larger families; (b) later borns were more external than only children or firstborns; (c) only children and firstborns were more socially responsible than later borns; and (d) firstborns were more rigid than only-child and later-born Ss. (Author)

The disadvantaged child is one who cannot be happy or courageous, regardless of race, intelligence, or income. The most important factor in the child's personality development is love. (DM)