This article examines theoretical views of perfectionism, some of the instruments currently available to measure perfectionism, and empirical evidence surrounding perfectionism in both the general and gifted populations. Areas of needed research are addressed, with particular emphasis given to the multidimensional nature of the construct of…

The Adult Personality Inventory assesses personality characteristics in terms of three sets of scales: personal characteristics, interpersonal style, and career factors. Career factors include practical, scientific, aesthetic, social, competitive, and structured dimensions related to career choice, job satisfaction, and lifestyle preferences. (SK)

The Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) is a dimensional descriptive system for personality and its disorders. The development of the scales, based on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), is described. Results with 3 clinical samples (total 1,680), a college sample of 2,928, and a normative sample of 2,567 support the…

Undergraduate students (35 males and 195 females) completed a scale assessing cooperativeness and competitiveness. Results showed these traits to be orthogonal characteristics, rather than traits that fall on the ends of a single continuum. Both were shown to be relatively gender neutral. (SLD)

Reveals findings of a survey of 294 Hong Kong secondary school students. Evaluates relationships among involvement in extracurricular activities, academic performance, personality, and peer acceptance. Concludes that activity involvement is positively related to academic performance, personality, and peer acceptance. Suggests that further research…

Outlines a new personality typology that provides a coherent system for construing and conducting research on learning styles. Discusses analytic, holistic, objective, and subjective styles as the affect versatility. Presents implications for educational goals, such as determining which students can benefit from stylistic versatility and which…

Marker sets of variables to produce the Big-Five personality-factor structure were studied with over 1,000 college students completing adjective anchored bipolar rating scales or unipolar sets of adjectives. A set of 100 unipolar terms were highly robust across diverse samples of self- and peer-descriptions. (SLD)

Dimensional measures of aspects of personality disorders (PD) were developed. Convergence of these measures with the "Big Five" personality factors was studied in 300 general population subjects. Results suggest substantial similarity between the five factors and PD measures, though the latter cannot be entirely subsumed by the Big Five…

Investigated relation of personality factor of hardiness to resolution of grief. In anonymous sample of 70 widows, hardiness was significant predictor of grief resolution in addition to general mental health, time since death, and widow's age. Whether death was expected did not relate to course of resolution. (Author/NB)

Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the theoretical structure of the revised Personal Style Inventory (PSI) (C. Robins and others, 1994) with 869 nonclinical adults and 101 outpatients with depression. PSI items and subscales decomposed into factor structures that were fair to good representations of the theoretical model. (SLD)

Cross-validated the IMM scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescents (MMPI-A), a measure of ego level, with 151 college students. Means and standard deviations were obtained on IMM scale from the MMPI-A and another MMPI version for males and females. (SLD)

Examined the number and nature of temperamental types in 488 children, age 3 years 6 months. Configural-frequency-analysis methods showed clear support for two temperament types: controlled-nonexpressive and noncontrolled-expressive. These types showed meaningful differences against external criteria related to a wide range of problem behaviors.…

This study examined the factor structure of Form G of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (K. Briggs and I. Myers, 1987). A third-order component analysis of a sample of 486 college students yielded three higher-order components. These findings contribute to the literature pertaining to the generalized structure of the instrument. (SLD)

Examines discrepancies between juvenile offenders and their parents' profiles on the Child Behavior Checklist and the Youth Self-Report, which were completed by adolescent-parent dyads (N=51) receiving probation services. Parents scored higher than their adolescents on both Internalization and Externalization subscales. Parents scored their…

Psychological type as a theory of four major personality characteristics is applied to empathy and choice of strategy. Discusses how versatile counselors should be and of how, specifically, type can be used in counseling. The problem of losing weight is used to illustrate how strategies may be matched with clients of different types or…