Discusses biography for children as a literary form concerned with the task of personality integration and sets forth criteria for the selection of biography for children. (GT)

Barron's Ego Strength Scale and Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale were administered to a sample of undergraduates in order to assess the relationship between ego strength and dogmatism. A significant inverse relationship was found, as predicted. (JKS)

Society, the patient, and the mental health professional each define ideal mental health from a different vantage point. A truly adequate picture of an individual's mental health is possible only if these three facets of a tripartite model of functioning are evaluated and integrated. (Author/SJL)

In this detailed clinical study of 20 military offenders participating in the Air Force retraining program, three types of offenders were identified: (1) neurotic; (2) immature yet socially conforming; and (3) antisocial. Findings suggest a continuity between personality patterns exhibited by juvenile delinquents and the patterns in adult…

Compared two sets of variables (one known to reflect psychopathology and the other to reflect certain normal personality traits) to determine whether they overlapped in both normal and abnormal samples. Findings are taken as indicative that personality patterns remain contiguous with psychological symptomatology regardless of the presence or lack…

Three personality measures were administered twice each with an interval of four weeks between administrations, and the response consistency of these tests was analyzed. The evidence is equivocal. The confounding of consistency effects with other sources of variance remains a problem. (Author/CTM)

The results of the California Psychological Inventory, the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes, and the Mooney Problem Check List for short-term clients, long-term clients, and nonclients were compared. Results supported the usefulness of the Mooney in a relatively normal setting. (Author)

Implications of theoretical models for counseling are examined in relation to: (1) the openness of the counselor in the counseling relationship; (2) a view of openness as a form of defense; and (3) dealing with defenses as part of the therapeutic process. (Author)

Given two assumptions: (1) that people expect a stranger to have attitudes similar to their own, and (2) the disconfirmation of this expectancy by a dissimilar stranger generates an aversive reaction which contributes to his rejection, it was reasoned that tolerance of a dissimilar stranger could be fostered by lessening the aversive reaction to…

Idiographic research occupies an accepted position in personological study and clinical psychology. This review critically examines one such method of investigation, the clinical-personological approach, which relies on inductive inference and attempts to provide description at the level of the "whole person". (Editor)

Person-environment congruence as assessed by Holland's model of vocational preference was tested in a sample of 362 employees from five environmental typologies. The results indicate that congruent employees are significantly more satisfied with the job facet satisfaction measures than incongruent employees. (Author)

Changes in the self-concept associated with a period of incarceration were investigated. Female prisoners in the Iowa Women's Reformatory were administered the usual admissions test battery plus a 24-item Self-Concept Scale consisting of bipolar adjectives. Readministered following a six-month period of incarceration, the scale showed general…

There is controversy among researchers about the mid-life personality and value change, and whether every person undergoes a change. Considered here are possible mid-life developmental changes, and the implications they have for working with persons having vocational and other problems during this critical period. (Author)

An evaluation method for measuring the attitudes of teachers engaged in their first year of teaching is outlined. (JD)

The past decade has been marked by mounting public concern over noise as a source of environmental pollution. Simultaneously, research has shown that noise is also a potent cause of physiological stress. This research relates noise to aggression concluding that noise facilitates aggression in subjects who have been instigated to aggress to the…