Authors of 1993 article on Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) respond to article by Sherman and Jones (1994) concerning 1993 article. Addresses nine points raised by Sherman and Jones. Concludes that MBTI holds considerable promise as tool in therapy. (NB)

Examined how dimensions of Type A behavior exert different effects on marital relationship. Findings from 200 couples are consistent with view that Type A behavior should be divided into at least 2 components, and that it is Impatience/Irritability dimension rather than achievement-oriented or job-involved dimension that exerts detrimental effects…

Personality traits of 145 downsized executives receiving outplacement services were examined using the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. The 51 who started new businesses were more likely to be emotionally stable, tough minded (less open to experience), and expedient (realistic). (SK)

My Vocational Situation, Career Decision Scale, and California Psychological Inventory (CPI) were completed by 149 students. Factor analysis reduced 20 CPI scales to Extraversion, Control, Flexibility, and Consensuality. Consensuality significantly distinguished high and low career indecision. Extraversion and Control had low to moderate…

The rhetoric of lifelong learning and the learning society is really a disguise for the exercise of power. By creating dependency through the exercise of knowledge-power regimes (such as the push for professionalization), adult educators contribute directly to maintaining dominant power relations. (SK)

New psychological perspectives have invalidated the career theories of static personality, career stages, and life cycle. Models compatible with current psychology include objective career patterns, temporal development, and transition cycle. (SK)

A Kohonen Self-Organizing Map, a type of artificial neural network, was used to classify 547 counseling clients into eight categories based on aptitudes. Categories resembled the major typologies of people and jobs by Holland and others, suggesting the usefulness of self-organizing neural networks for career counseling. (SK)

Multidimensional scaling analysis was conducted on the responses of 648 college students to 110 occupational title items in the Strong Interest Inventory. A three-dimensional structure of vocational interests emerged: Data-Ideas, People-Things, and Sex-Type. (SK)

Scores of 426 undergraduates on the Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) and Strong Interest Inventory (SII) revealed that personal style scales of the SII are related to MBTI polar dimensions in various combinations. Results support the idea that personality traits are related to career interests. (SK)

Scores of 370 adults on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) were correlated with General Occupational Theme (GOT) scores on the Strong Interest Inventory. Simple categorical MBTI scores were related modestly to Strong GOT scores as expected; individual continuous scores did not account for more variance in GOT than in categorical scores. (SK)

Discusses background issues relating to masculine identity. Examines Wade's theory of Male Reference Group Identity Dependence including the Male Reference Group Identity Dependence Scale (RGIDS) in terms of conceptual and methodological issues. Argues that the RGIDS focuses on the male's present reference group and ignores earlier reference…

Personality inventory scoring of 90 correctional educators working in Washington penal institutions yielded 27 factors describing personality characteristics. It was determined that 15 of these factors are valuable in describing the characteristics of those working in successful programs. (JOW)

Offers a new mapping procedure, used in conjunction with Holland's Hexagon, to help clients identify and explore occupational alternatives. The new method uses all six types identified in the hexagon to describe a client's personality code. (MKA)

This article defines educating for good character as addressing three facets of human personality: moral knowing, moral feeling or attitudes, and moral behavior. Examples of good character are provided. The role of schools in providing character education for its students is also addressed. (MKA)

A Keirsey-Bates personality inventory was completed by 128 occupational therapists (OTs) and 166 physical therapists (PTs). PTs were far more likely to have sensing-judging temperament; OTs were predominantly sensing-perceiving or intuitive-feeling. The five most common OT types accounted for only 19% of PTs and the five most common PT types for…