Describes methods of cognitive assessment: interview based, questionnaires, constructivist, and cognitive structure based. Applies them to career undercommitment, overcommitment, work-related anxiety and depression, and work-related personality problems. (SK)

Self-Directed Search and NEO Personality Inventory were completed by 102 female and 91 male students. For females, overlap in the two scales was represented by a Nonpersonal-Interpersonal Orientation dimension and Closedness-Openness dimension. For males, dimensions were Closedness-Openness and Introversion-Extraversion. Results were consistent…

Examined the relationship between sensing-intuition personality as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and General Occupational Themes (GOT) interests on the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory. Findings from 219 college students revealed that students with intuitive personalities were more likely to score high on artistic and investigative…

Used Millon Adolescent Personality Inve.tory to compare personality styles, expressed concerns, and behavioral correlates of 13 conduct-disordered and 137 non-conduct-disordered adolescents. Conduct-disordered youth reported being very critical, harsh, and not respectful of others; tended to seek out the unpredictable and to be moody and…

Reviews four types of adolescent problems likely to be associated with Satanism. Promotes evaluation from a perspective which assumes that different personalities are drawn to Satanism for different reasons, so that counselors will not presume that these adolescents require a single treatment approach. (LLL)

Results of completion of the Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI), NEO Personality Inventory, Self-Directed Search, Vocational Identity scale, and Preconscious Activity scale verified the construct validity of the CBI. CBI scales appeared to measure variance not assessed by the other instruments. (SK)

Compared characteristics of suicides by jumping to those of suicides by hanging, ingestion, or shooting. Method used was significantly associated with sociodemographics, occupation, and mental health status, even after adjustment for individual access to suicide means. Findings provide evidence for hypothesis that controlling access to agent of…

Reviews the relevant research related to using the Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) in the assessment of suicidality. Uses a case illustration to show how a battery of psychological tests can be used to identify characteristics that make an individual vulnerable to suicidal…

Examined observed father-infant interaction and reports of parental responsibility during infancy in 54 dual-earner and 65 single-earner families. Results indicated that personality characteristics of the father were important in predicting father's responsibility for child care in single-earner families, not in dual-earner families. Contextual…

Discusses theory of stimulus addiction, a process of human accommodation to stimuli which fosters dependency and may foster addiction. Suggests that a society of affluence may be prone to addictiveness because the more continuous the stimuli the person experiences, the more tolerance is created, and with tolerance comes stimulus deprivation.…

No main effect relations between infant proneness-to-distress temperament at 9 months and attachment classification at 13 months were found. Proneness-to-distress temperament was associated with maternal behavior and personality. (PCB)

Investigated relationship between maladaptation and environmental preferences of 33 male prisoners who had engaged in deliberate, self-harm earlier in their incarceration. Found that good and poor adaptors had significantly different environmental preference profiles. Good adaptors were more likely to prefer Activity and Social Stimulation and…

Healthy Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) seropositive undergraduates (n=57) completed personality inventory, provided blood samples, and were randomly assigned to write/talk about stressful events, or to write about trivial events. Those assigned to verbal/stressful condition had significantly lower EBV antibody titers (suggesting better cellular immune…

Developed bipolar Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Optimism-Pessimism (PSM) scale based on results on Content Analysis of Verbatim Explanation applied to MMPI. Reliability and validity indices show that PSM scale is highly accurate and consistent with Seligman's theory that pessimistic explanatory style predicts increased…

Age, sex, and personality (extroversion, neuroticism, openness to experience) variables were used as predictors of 4 dimensions of reminiscence (frequency, age of memory, affective quality, meaning) for 94 subjects aged 18-81. No age differences appeared in frequency, emotional tone, or meaning; age predicted memory remoteness. Personality traits…