Examined the relationship between scores on the MMPI and concurrent and prior aggression. Analysis indicated sum of T scores for Scales F, 4, and 9 was valid measure of aggression. Composite had a higher reliability than its component scales and discriminated between delinquent and general populations. (Author/BEF)

Demonstrated that abusing parents differ from nonabusing parents in personality variables. Mothers differed in relationship to one's parents, tendency to become upset, tendency toward loneliness, expectations of one's children, inability to separate parental and child feelings, and fear of external threat. Abusers scored at the highest risk levels…

Self-report data were examined to identify personality-attitudinal items that correlated with polydrug use. Analysis showed that 20 items, when treated as a scale, were reliable, diagnostically accurate, and applicable to either sex. This is an initial step in development of scale for indirect measurement of use of psychotropics. (Author/BEF)

Reports on a pilot study that demonstrated significant changes in writing performance in college classes using structured humanistic psychological processes. (HOD)

A logically constructed format for the recording of the patient's personality profile is proposed. The term "personality" is used in a broad sense and refers to data that should be part of the patient's clinical record in any clinical situation and that describe the patient's general vulnerability. (Author/MLW)

Abilities of physicians to express emotions through voice tone were assessed and related to physician personality and patient ratings. Aspects of expressive ability were correlated with personality traits, and expressive ability was related to patients' satisfaction with their physicians. (Author)

Results of statistical analyses suggest that high lie-scorers respond honestly, and that the Lie Scale for the Eysenck Personality Inventory may reflect a personality dimension of interest rather than an extraneous and undesirable factor to be eliminated. (Author)

A sample of 48 American Olympic contenders was compared with a sample of 63 undergraduate education majors with respect to scores on Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and on three other scales. The athletes appeared to be more dominant, suspicious, self-sufficient, tense, and less sensitive. (CTM)

Psychometric properties of Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale were examined. Evidence supported the theoretical notion of an individual difference variable in arousal-seeking. Other evidence, however, suggested that measurement problems continue to hamper research: the total score was moderately reliable, but the subscales were only marginally…

Personality profiles of 158 male and female Canadian university freshmen were compared across dimensions of religious orientation and religious affiliation. (Author/DB)

Explores the utility of reciprocal two-point code type classifications of Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) profiles and evaluates a second classification scheme based upon groupings of empirically and conceptually similar PIC code types. Results indicate a profile classification strategy can be usefully applied to PIC protocols. (Author)

Examined the concurrent validity of Holland's theory for men and women employed in an enterprising occupation as well as the degree of personality-environment correspondence and relationships of personality type to job satisfaction. Findings suggested that within an employed sample, Holland's theory is valid for women as well as for men. (Author)

Two additional hypotheses were tested in a replication of a previous study that found two factors from the "Children's Personality Questionnaire" that discriminated between disabled and non-disabled readers. Notes the differences between this study's results and the original study's results. (RL)

Investigations of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were conducted. A principal-components factor analysis yielded three psychologically meaningful factors: one A-Trait factor, Cognitive Anxiety, and two A-State factors, Negative Descriptors and Positive Descriptors. Other studies investigated the effects of two threats, on overall A-State…

Compared to control group data obtained under standard instructions, subjects (N=72) asked to fake replies to the Howarth Personality Questionnaire in the way they felt Machiavellian individuals would honestly respond scored significantly higher on Ascendance-Dominance, Trust vs Suspicion and Impulsiveness, and significantly lower on Superego,…