The review examines characteristics of entrepreneurs and suggests that they share personality traits (such as risk taking and lack of conformity) with the mildly sociopathic. (DB)

Explains principles of Kenneth Boulding which Boulding considered important for the understanding of social and political organizations and applies these ideas to systems theories of personality. Discusses principles of opposition, defense, polylithy, size, and persistence. Concludes that principle derived from Boulding's analysis of organizations…

Explored differences between Black and White American women employed in traditional female occupations. The findings suggest that Black American women, when compared to White American women in the same occupation, tend to obtain very similar mean raw scores. Black and White American women in the same occupation seem to be far more similar than…

Derived empirical descriptions of 113 adults independent of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for profiles classified according to most frequently occurring two-point codes. Compared subjects of each code type group to remaining subjects on 255 behavior variables, resulting in development of interpretive narratives for 3-5/5-3,…

Examines whether mothers' temperament ratings of their children as easy or difficult follow the pattern of occurrence of sibling deidentification as determined by generalized alike-different judgments. Participants were 111 middle-class mothers (80 with two children and 31 with three) and 93 inner-city mothers (62 with two children and 31 with…

The author describes the concept of developmental potential that addresses the personality correlates of high ability and suggests an alternative to the IQ test method of identifying individuals with high potential. (CL)

Interviews Stanton Samenow who explains his belief that environmental conditions and mental illness do not cause criminal behavior, and defends the clinical approach used in his work. Describes his recent book "Inside the Criminal Mind" and its recommendations for change of government policy toward criminals. (LLL)

Applied three readability formulas differing in criterion for comprehension (50-100 percent) to the Personality Inventory for Children (PIC), Revised Format, and to abbreviated forms of the inventory. Results showed that for each method of analysis, readability of abbreviated forms approximates readability of the entire inventory. (LLL)

Summarizes Abraham Maslow's concepts of the organization of the personality with implications for educating the disadvantaged adult learner. Special attention is given to personality syndromes and the effect they have on the expression of behavior. (JOW)

Provides counselors with an overview of narcissism and its treatment. In the first section, dysfunctional narcissism is described, drawing on the diagnostic indicators presented in the DSM-III and the contemporary object relations theories of Heinz Kohut and Otto Kerberg. The second section focuses on counseling narcissistic clients. (Author/JAC)

This paper explains the types of entities that can be analyzed using two-mode factor analysis and the techniques associated with each variation. It also provides an in-depth review and example of one of the most popular variations, the Q-technique. Even when researchers have multiple variables, multiple people, and multiple occasions of…

Describes a new method of counseling, that of counseling the parents rather than children, which seeks to encourage personality development by creating a family environment receptive to good personality development. (AN)

With this brief review of Maslow's accomplishment as focused on creativeness in the life world, salient features of philosophy and methodology as perceived by him are considered. (Author)