The author shares insights distilled from years of working with people who must be creative for a living. Includes a list of distinctive traits of creative people, blocks to creativity, and advice for rekindling the fires of creativity. Points out that creativity cannot be taught, but can be rediscovered. (JOW)

Reviews federal guidelines for psychological test use in employee selection. Summarizes findings on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) use in selection of candidates for police officers. Notes that MMPI scales measuring defensiveness and hysteria have been reported as positively correlated with performance, whereas scales measuring…

Reviews studies of impact of comorbidity of personality disorders and depression on response to various forms of treatment. Notes that findings support belief that personality disorders are associated with poorer response to treatment for depression. Also notes that limited data available suggest that depression may be positive prognostic…

To assess the construct validity of Holland, Daiger, and Power's (1980) measure of Vocational Identity (VI), three personality and four vocational variables were correlated to the VI scale. The results provided evidence of both convergent and discriminant validity for the VI scale. (Author)

Considers contributions of Farley's Type T theory of personality and motivation to family psychology. Outlines some implications of Type T for range of marital treatment issues. Notes that Type T can be used as a predictor of change in therapy and as an assessment of whether people are really going to change. (NB)

Compared Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) items for 128 females convicted of forgery against items for 128 females from age-matched normative sample. Thirty-three items were significant at 0.0001 level. Significant items were categorized as value system, relations with family, uncertainty, appearance of perfectionism,…

Discusses the International Resilience Research Project (IRRP), a study that surveyed more than 1,200 families and children from 27 sites in 22 countries. Presents the 15 elements of resilience and their three sources that were identified by the IRRP; demonstrates how to use these elements to promote resilience in youth. (Author/MKA)

The Anxiety About Aging Scale (AAS) was modified to produce an instrument designed to assess aging anxiety in an elderly population; specifically, the future orientation of the AAS was modified for use with older adults. Validity testing was done on elderly individuals living in an independent community (N=123). (Author/EMK)

Two studies (n=139, n=868) using alternate assessment instruments demonstrated that vocational interest was moderately related to personality type. Limited overlap among interests, personality, and ability suggests that assessment of each domain provides unique information important for career development. (SK)

Objective: To examine the association between cortisol levels and conduct disorder (CD) in adolescent mothers. Past research has shown that low levels of cortisol were associated with CD, particularly with its aggressive symptoms. The authors tested the hypothesis that adolescent mothers with CD would show lower levels of salivary cortisol…

The Oxford Thesaurus describes "resiliency" with these words: elasticity, flexibility, life, spring, stretch, tenacity, rigor. Why would anyone want to be all of these things? And what does it take to do so? Enter the superintendent who wants to make a lasting difference. Today's superintendency calls on deep reserves from leaders who understand…

The importance of being seen as a "nice person" cannot be overrated as this greatly influences job effectiveness and tenure. Tips are provided on how to project this enviable personality trait.

Students attending a state-supported residential academy for academically gifted adolescents (N = 139) completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents (MMPI-A; Butcher et al., 1992) upon entrance to document their psychological characteristics. The same students completed a postadministration of the MMPI-A at the end of…

In recent studies, some researchers were eager for the answer of how to group a perfectly dream team. There are various grouping methods, e.g. random assignment, homogeneous grouping with personality or achievement and heterogeneous grouping with personality or achievement, were proposed. Some instructors could put some students in a team better…

The present study was designed to examine construct validity of two identity status measures, the Ego Identity Process Questionnaire (EIPQ; J. Adolescence 18 (1995) 179) and the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status II (EOM-EIS-II; J. Adolescent Res. 1 (1986) 183). Construct validity was operationalized in terms of how identity status…