Three wishes of 69 gifted and 66 nongifted adolescents were solicited in a group situation. The findings indicated that personal wishes were of the most concern for both gifted and nongifted adolescents, and that males of both groups tended to value material possessions more often than did females. A significant between-groups difference revealed…

This study explores how accurately participants in an encounter group perceive the leaders. Accuracy of the participants' perceptions were measured at the beginning and the end of the experience. Results show that group members' perceptions of the leaders were highly inaccurate. (Author)

Responses of male prisoners to the Personal Orientation Inventory were clustered, using hierarchical linkage analysis. Six second-order clusters accounted for all the items. Reliabilities of these clusters were comparable to those of the first-order clusters. Relative validity of cluster scores and scale scores remains to be determined. (RC)

This article presents a simple scale to detect faking good and faking bad responses on the 1967 16 Personality Factor, Form A. (Author/DEP)

The relationship between difficulty of conflict resolution and degree of avoidance was investigated in three experiments using imagery conflicts consisting of choosing to have more or less of certain personal characteristics. (Editor)

A psychosynthetic model of personality was presented as well as several inferences for an eclectic but systematic approach to psychotherapy which embraces a variety of methods, can be ordered in a reasonable sequence, and used within a therapist-client relationship which is existentially structured. (Author/RK)

A whole year intake of a college of education was tested near the beginning and end of their course using two tests, the Study of Values and the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory. The tests were analysed for their validity. (Author/RK)

This article discusses students' attitudes and beliefs in the areas of autonomy, practical outlook, impulse expression, complexity, estheticism, thinking introversion, masculinity-feminity, personal integration, anxiety level, religious orientation, altruism, social extroversion, and response bias. (PD)

Discusses whether a healthful personality is a necessity for a teacher to be effective. (Editor/PG)

Article sought to bring attention to a convergence on 14 constructs measured by four personality inventories. (Author/RK)

Author concentrated on a neglected area of psychopathology, that of the major abnormalities that cannot be readily classified as either neurotic or psychotic. (Author/RK)

Psychological test data from 69 patients were examined for personality correlates of Wechsler Digit Span performance. (Author)