The purpose of the study was to determine if Holland's theory could predict students' expressed satisfaction with their college major choices. The hypothesis that students who had made congruent choices would express significantly greater satisfaction than students who had made incongruent choices was generaly upheld. (Author)

According to the data, persons choosing to attend college have a greater need to assume leadership and be highly regarded by others. Those choosing not to attend college tend to have greater feelings of guilt when doing something wrong and to have greater feelings of inferiority. (Author)

Results of the study suggest that birth-order effects might be included within the wider framework of approval-dependency theory. Females tend to account for a significant share of birth-order effects. More particularly, firstborn females accounted for much of the differences in expressed attraction as well as need for social approval. (Author)

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)

In comparing regular matriculents with disadvantaged students, the groups did not differ in degree of motivation but regulars were concerned with social evaluation and disadvantaged students with self-worth. High school averages, Otis I.Q., study habits, and reality of aspiration level were the best predictors of successful college performance.…

The study is an attempt to extend the construct validity of identity statuses (identity achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, and identity diffusion) to a controlled interpersonal situation. (DB)

Scales of the Minnesota Counseling Inventory (MCI) were used to compare persisters with nonpersisters. All four comparisons involving the Conformity scale and two of four comparisons involving the Family Relationships scale demonstrated significant differences. Persisters scored lower than nonpersisters on all comparisons involving the Conformity…

Attempts to predict performance in dental school from individual scales of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) have yielded equivocal results. A five scale regression equation to predict grades and faculty ratings suggested implications of dependability, conscientiousness, and perserverance at one pole and impulsiveness, carelessness, and…

Cattell's "Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire" was adapted for use in a rehabilitation setting with a visually limited population of 56 individuals. Testing of the adapted instrument indicated that modifications could be made without apparent detrimental effect on the applicability of available norms. (Author/SW)

Analysis of the High School Personality Questionnaire and measures of socioeconomic status (SES) for 63 intellectually gifted secondary and 60 control students revealed that giftedness was not identified as the reason for differences in personality characteristics. Instead, sex appeared to be the important factor in considering student actions.…

Discusses a study that determined that women in nontraditional areas of business had personal traits emphasizing independence and self-reliance while traditional women were more socially oriented and identified more with groups. (JOW)

A sense of inferiority in adolescent males can result from a split senex-puer archetype, a Jungian construct focused on the individual's identification with and/or repression of psychic age and youth. Adolescents experience healing of the split senex-puer archetype to the degrees to which they involve themselves in the eros and power of their life…

Presents a mathematical model utilizing three-letter codes of personality patterns determined from the Self Directed Search. This model compares personality types over time or determines relationships between personality types and person-environment interactions. This approach is consistent with Holland's theory yet more comprehensive than one- or…