This task group report is one of a series prepared by eminent psychologists who have served as consultants in the U.S.O.E.-sponsored grant study to conduct a Critical Appraisal of the Personality-Emotions-Motivation Domain. In order to achieve the goal of identifying important problems and areas for new research and methodological issues related…

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship of the limitation and outcome of simultaneous speech to those dimensions of personality indexes by Cattell's 16PF Questionnaire. More than 500 conversations of 24 female college students were computer-analyzed for instances of simultaneous speech, and the frequencies with which they…

Two studies are reported, each of which achieves personality change with both audiovisual self-confrontation (AVSC) and supportive, nondirective interviews. The first study used Ericksonian identity achievement as a dependent variable. Sixty-one male subjects were measured using Anne Constantinople's inventory. The results of this study…

Students' drawings of the family were used as a projective diagnostic tool for analyzing social-psychological family roles of intellectually normal and superior students who have reading-learning problems. Drawings of two groups of students were presented. One was called the "Honor Five," made up of college honor students, and the other was called…

Reviews the psychological theory of the Japanese psychiatrist Takeo Doi which accounts for the vertically structured, group-oriented society found in Japan today via the total dependence of Japanese children upon their mothers. (SL)

Everett Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory is a significant and widely used contribution to humanistic psychology and personality assessment. W. S. Zimmerman (1969) evaluated the POI and his observations led to the development of a complementary form, the POD (Personal Orientation Dimensions) and to a new test, the DOSAB (Dimensions of…

Factor analytic convergence of Wiggin's MMPI content scales and the author's unpublished Differential Personality Inventory (DPI) were studied. A varimax rotation yielded seven dimensions: health problems; interpersonal conflict; impulse expression vs. religiosity; denial; depressed withdrawal; cognitive dysfunction; and familial problems. Results…

Presented at the 81st APA Convention, Montreal, 1973, this study showed how a cluster analytic approach was used to determine age differences in personality measured by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF). Subjects were 969 adult male volunteers, 25 to 34, 35 to 54, and 55 to 82. Openness to experience showed age-related…

This study compares the direct assessment of personality by self-ratings with the less direct assessment by the Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire. The relationships primarily involve indices of social interaction from the 16PF and indices of internal traits from the self-ratings. (Author/DEP)

A racial riot occurred at a federal correctional institution in which the majority of participants were identified. A second group of blacks selected at random from the same institution and intentionally sought not to become involved served as controls. (Author)

Examined the role of cognitive mediators in identifying differences in aggression of incarcerated and nonincarcerated male and female adolescents. Found hostile-aggressive individuals more likely to hold beliefs supporting aggression and to be unconcerned about the consequences of violent actions. (SKC)

Developed two scales to examine the relationship between personality and performance of residential child care workers. The first scale differentiated child care workers from the general population, the second "most effective" from "least effective" child care worker incumbents. Personality characteristics proved to be better…

Research suggests predisposition toward alcoholism and drug abuse by inherited behavioral propensities or temperaments which, through interaction with the physical and social environments, shape the development of the personality. Certain personality characteristics, specifically antisocial and neurotic traits, are also linked with the risk for…

The frequency of interactions with teachers and peers in two groups of preschool children (nine mildly/moderately handicapped, nine nonhandicapped) were observed. For both, positive temperament patterns increased interactions with peers and, for nonhandicapped, also increased child-teacher interactions. Teachers interacted more with those…

Reviews findings of a restandardization project which examined the current validity of the Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI), an instrument used to test for personality and psychological disorders. States that the MMPI has proved to be a remarkably durable instrument over the 45 years of its use. (ML)