Clients of a university career center (n=102) used the System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) Plus and completed Holland's My Vocational Situation and Vocational Preference Inventory. Persons with higher Social and Enterprising scores rated SIGI Plus lower as a tool to acquire self and occupational knowledge. (SK)

Reviews images of male heroes. Presents categories of males as dominating-intimidating; intimidated, passive, passive-aggressive; unfaithful; computer-man; dysfunctional-addicted; or violent. Claims counselors should not try to strengthen same old families but should try to strengthen the family by changing it. (ABL)

Advocates the case method as the primary object of teaching in suicidology. Presents five cases, each from a different vantage point, referral source, and context, and without revealing the outcome. Concludes that the application of empirically derived risk factors makes the assessment and prediction of future suicidal behavior more possible,…

Presents interview with Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Personality Studies, in Department of Psychiatric Medicine at University of Virginia (Charlottesville). Discusses one controversial topic in area of death studies, cases suggestive of reincarnation. Describes first case he investigated, method of inquiry used to investigate…

Administered NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) and Combat Exposure Scale to 100 Vietnam veterans with combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and sorted subjects into three groups based on trauma exposure level. Found no significant differences among personality profiles of three trauma-exposed groups. Revealed normative NEO-PI…

Drawing on a model of wisdom that includes components in three domains (personality, cognition, and conation) and across three levels (intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal), highlights potential differences in the ways women and men attain and express wisdom; and examines interactive patterns across the components of wisdom. (BC)

Authors of 1993 article on Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) respond to article by Sherman and Jones (1994) concerning 1993 article. Addresses nine points raised by Sherman and Jones. Concludes that MBTI holds considerable promise as tool in therapy. (NB)

Examined how dimensions of Type A behavior exert different effects on marital relationship. Findings from 200 couples are consistent with view that Type A behavior should be divided into at least 2 components, and that it is Impatience/Irritability dimension rather than achievement-oriented or job-involved dimension that exerts detrimental effects…

Personality traits of 145 downsized executives receiving outplacement services were examined using the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. The 51 who started new businesses were more likely to be emotionally stable, tough minded (less open to experience), and expedient (realistic). (SK)

My Vocational Situation, Career Decision Scale, and California Psychological Inventory (CPI) were completed by 149 students. Factor analysis reduced 20 CPI scales to Extraversion, Control, Flexibility, and Consensuality. Consensuality significantly distinguished high and low career indecision. Extraversion and Control had low to moderate…

The rhetoric of lifelong learning and the learning society is really a disguise for the exercise of power. By creating dependency through the exercise of knowledge-power regimes (such as the push for professionalization), adult educators contribute directly to maintaining dominant power relations. (SK)

New psychological perspectives have invalidated the career theories of static personality, career stages, and life cycle. Models compatible with current psychology include objective career patterns, temporal development, and transition cycle. (SK)

A Kohonen Self-Organizing Map, a type of artificial neural network, was used to classify 547 counseling clients into eight categories based on aptitudes. Categories resembled the major typologies of people and jobs by Holland and others, suggesting the usefulness of self-organizing neural networks for career counseling. (SK)

Multidimensional scaling analysis was conducted on the responses of 648 college students to 110 occupational title items in the Strong Interest Inventory. A three-dimensional structure of vocational interests emerged: Data-Ideas, People-Things, and Sex-Type. (SK)

Scores of 426 undergraduates on the Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) and Strong Interest Inventory (SII) revealed that personal style scales of the SII are related to MBTI polar dimensions in various combinations. Results support the idea that personality traits are related to career interests. (SK)