Compared Black and White college football players (N=55) who completed a battery of psychological tests. Results showed Black seniors were more authoritarian than White seniors and more external and chance-oriented. Black athletes attributed less significance to the mental aspects of athletic competition than Whites. (JAC)

Examined the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) profiles of peer-nominated assertives, unassertives, and aggressives (N=80). Profile analysis of the CPI indicated that assertives and aggressives were significantly more similar than were assertives and unassertives, and unassertives and aggressives. (LLL)

Performed a principal axes factor anlaysis on Mini-Mult item data obtained from 249 medical and psychiatric patients. Six factors were extracted. Nonoverlapping summative scales were constructed and their reliabilities evaluated. The scales were recommended for applications in which it is desirable to avoid excessive item overlap. (JAC)

Assessed self-reported compliance, anger, and sympathy among subjects identified as dependent (N=26) or overcontrolled hostility (N=25), who read accounts of four different request styles. Dependent and overcontrolled subjects were not more compliant; however, females responded to the assertive request with more anger and less sympathy than did…

The author describes gifted children who hide their giftedness to seek social acceptance and thereby achieve invulnerability, then presents the "Gifted and Talented Personality Pyramid" model, which consists of four facets: environment, behavior, relationships, and selfhood. (MC)

The literature suggests that how one reacts to feedback is influenced by kind of feedback, conditions under which feedback is presented, and a variety of relevant subject variables. The most frequent design has resulted in acceptance of false feedback by college students leading to derogation of instruments and assessors. (Author/MV)

This research project ascertained personality profiles of rehabilitation clients. Three personality inventories were used. Results indicated state agency rehabilitation clients are characterized by differential patterns of personality characteristics. The taxonomic procedure used was profile analysis, and data was based on self-report. (NG)

The present study was designed to see which of two theories best accounted for arousal when subjects were matched or mismatched on their competence to discuss a specific attitude-topic. (Author)

Aims to explore the possible association between certain personality characteristics and suicidal inclination. Compares psychiatric patients with and without a suicidal history according to a number of selected of MMPI scales. (Author/RK)

Examines, by use of Webb's automated telephone interview (SI), the relationship between the degree of interview matching of interviewer DOU (mean pause duration) and RTL (mean response latency) and therapist empathy, warmth and genuineness as rated by the interviewee. (Author/RK)

Examines the effects of liking and knowing on self-disclosure using both self-report and observational measures, obtains separate measures of personal and impersonal self-disclosure, and assesses the utility of the role-playing paradigm for revealing orderly relationships among self-disclosure variables. (Author/RK)

Attempts to provide a clear demonstration that selective attention to self can be determined by the degree to which feedback tends to provide positive or negative discrepancies. (Author/RK)

Data indicated that an innovative educational program failed to have a positive impact on freshman college students' personality development after one semester. (GW)

Administrators who are gifted in dealing with problems arising from growth may not have the personality or skills to handle problems of retrenchment. This article considers the kind of personality and resume that a board of trustees should look for in choosing an administrator to lead an institution through the current and anticipated educational…

As a result of stereotypes and limited research, many people perceive substance use, abuse, and dependence as problems resulting from the use of so called "street drugs " like crack and heroin, used primarily by poor black and Hispanic populations. In reality, America's substance use problem encompasses not only these illegal drugs, but also the…