Four current approaches to understanding temperament are discussed. Theorists representing four postions--Goldsmith, Buss and Plomin, Rothbart, and Thomas and Chess--outline their views by reponding to six common questions. Commentaries highlighting differences and similarities between the positions are offered by Hinde and McCall. (Author/BN)

Employed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to study similarities and differences of mean profiles of anorexic patients, bulimic patients, morbidly obese outpatients, and subjects in a matched control group. The results indicated that there was no significant difference in the overall profiles of the three experimental groups, but…

Discriminated among four groups of male opiate-addicted reformatory inmates (N=193) according to degree of criminal violence using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Results showed that discriminant analysis was moderately successful for classifying Bodily Violent and Nonbodily Violent groups on the basis of their MMPI scores.…

The aim of the review is to discuss what the mind must be like for the psychoanalytic term like "the unconscious" to be meaningfully applied. Freud's two systems called the unconscious (Ucs.) and the preconscious-conscious (Pcs.-Cs.) are introduced and their replacement with alternative categories such as id, ego, and superego is…

Evidence for the reliability and validity of a paper-and-pencil personality inventory, the content of which is expressed entirely in terms of experiences of time and attitudes toward time, is presented. (Author)

Data reported in this article are part of a larger study comparing characteristics and motivation between those who persisted in religious occupations and those who left. A cluster computer program was used to identify subgroups within each sample and generalizations obtained through the cluster analysis are given. (Author/CG)

The general findings support the utility of direct compared to indirect approaches to personality measurement. (Author)

Factor scores denoting likelihood of becoming personal-problem clients of a counseling center were developed by means of criterion analysis for an entire freshman class. Invitations offering interpretation of orientation tests scores were accepted by a greater percentage of students whose personal-problem factor scores indicated greater likelihood…

Places the current controversy concerning the adequacy of parental ratings of temperament into the larger perspective of personality issues, which have been hotly debated for the past two decades. (Author/MP)

Reviews approaches taken in the study of human behavior and psychology by assessment centers, places where different experimenters apply various diagnostic techniques to the same individuals and then meet to report their findings and collectively formulate the personality of the subject/participant. (Author/GC)

Multiple discriminant analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores between high-IQ White, high-IQ Black, low-IQ White, and low-IQ Black subjects yielded two significant canonical variates. Results suggest that racial differences on the MMPI do not occur in all racial comparisons but are restricted to low-IQ groups. (Author)

Sleep positions, particularly the full fetal position, appear to be related to California Psychological Inventory (CPI) variables of sociability, sense of well being, achievement by conformance, femininity, and social maturity. (Author)

Anthony's theory of the development of extraversion in children requires that there should be a negative correlation between extraversion and intelligence after age 13 or 14. To test this Raven's Progressive Matrices and the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory were administered to 801 adolescents. Findings did not support Anthony's theory.…

Investigated motivational distortion using the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF) for male (n=331) criminal offenders. Results indicated that ego-strength, free-floating anxiety, ability to bind anxiety, boldness, dominance, emotional sensitivity and suspiciousness contributed most to the motivational distortion scale predictions.…