This study examines the relationship of androgyny to occupational membership. It was hypothesized that: (1) persons in stereotypically masculine occupations would be characterized by high levels of masculininity; (2) workers in a typically feminine occupation would rate themselves as highly feminine; and (3) androgynous individuals would be…

Forty-one subjects who score at the high and low extremes of the Psychosocial Maturity (PSM) Inventory were intensively interviewed. These interview data were analyzed to contrast the phenomenological and psychodynamic forces in the lives of these subjects that influence their current state of psychosocial maturity. Case material is presented.…

This program, in two sections, provides a concise introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA) and some practical applications for its use in the field of career development. Lectures and demonstrations show how Transactional Analysis techniques were used in initiating Career Development Programs with teachers, parents, and students. The…

Thirty-five disadvantaged Negro 4-year-olds were observed by one or the other of two white male child psychiatrists during a 30-minute play session. After the session, the observer dictated a descriptive summary of the session. He filled out a rating scale on aspects of the child's behavior, including speech and play behavior, nature of social…

This study aimed to determine relationships between a student's personality characteristics and his choice of a living residence while a senior at the University of California, Davis. A phenomological approach--or, the idea that a person's actions and decisions reveal something about his personality--was used. Data for the study were derived from…

The purpose of this investigation is twofold: (1) to study the effect of personality characteristics, identified at the beginning of the freshman year, on the college persistence of high, middle, and low ability men and women students; and (2) to describe women and men of varying ability in terms of certain academic variables. The study relates to…

This report describes a study that investigated empirically the relationships between selected aspects of the organizational structure of elementary schools and the extent to which students endorsed the norm of universalism. Four aspects of structure were studied: degree of departmentalization, school enrollment, student-teacher ratio, and extent…

The existence of relationships between a student's score on a personality inventory and his behavior as a teacher at a later time which might facilitate prediction of this behavior was investigated. Seventy students entering the MAT program at Temple University were administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Six months…

This paper investigated the assumption that a linear relationship could be detected between the process of source credibility evaluation and the seeking of information. The authors utilized twelve semantic differential scales which, when used for evaluating the source credibility of public figures, clustered into four dimensions: competence,…

AN EFFORT WAS MADE TO MEASURE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE OBSERVED DIFFERENCES IN THE PERSONALITY STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS IN INDIA MIGHT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN A SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SET DERIVED FROM THE EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE (EPPS). EIGHT HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED ON 243…

The Dynamic Personality Inventory (DPI) is described and its uniqueness as an objectively scored, psychoanalytically based assessment instrument is stressed. The available British and American literature reporting applications or statistical analyses of the DPI is reviewed. It is suggested that one source of resistance to even wider acceptance of…

Describes a research program designed to discover more of the behavioral characteristics of unselected secondary school students. Reports the results of two questionnaires; one claims to measure manifestations of aggression, hostility, and punitiveness; the second surveyed the use of medications, alcohol, and cigarettes. (GS)

Personality and demographic data from two groups of industrial arts teachers, American Industrial Arts Association teacher-of-the-year recipients and a randomly selected group, were statistically analyzed and compared. The results show many differences; the author recommends further personality profile research for industrial arts teachers. (MF)

Personality tests, administered to 269 students in selected freshman mathematics classes at three postsecondary schools to determine whether value systems and personality characteristics differed according to the type of institution selected, support the hypothesis that student personality factors are related to the type of college selected. (MB)

Studies using Marcia's identity status paradigm (achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, and diffusion) are reviewed. The paradigm is evaluated concerning its construct and external validity; the rationale and discriminant validity of the identity statuses; the reliability of the Identity Status Interview; and future research problems. (For Part I,…