Although no single Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scale was found to differentiate between subject clinical effectiveness groups, the subjects' MMPI profiles were found to predict accurately the clinical effectiveness groups to which the subjects were assigned. (Author)

Discusses the term "humanism" as regularly understood within the context of a liberal arts education and as the contemporary foreign language teaching platform. Gives the roots of current humanistic principles and techniques and examines some ramifications of adopting personality development as one of the goals of foreign language programs. (EKN)

Reports the results of a study of the psychometric properties of a questionnaire designed to measure parents' perceptions of their baby's temperament and suggests directions for refinement in the assessment of infant temperament. (MP)

K-corrected MMPI-168 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 168) scales using short and long form K scales (N=2,439). The latter increased correlations between abbreviated and standard scales in most instances. Because using the entire K scale involves adding 18 items to the MMPI-168, it is a cost-effective means of improving the MMPI-168.…

Personality traits of 43 female public school librarians were compared to traits exhibited by 50 female public school teachers. Differences in personality structure were found to exist on four factors of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire. (Author/BW)

The article reports an experiment on microteaching and classroom performance which examined the relationships of extraversion, anxiety, and teacher training methods. The implications of previous research that there are disordinal interactions between specified methods of instruction and extraversion were investigated in the context of methods of…

Discusses method for discussion of psychological tests and psychometric principles underlying the tests. The instructor asked students to predict his T-scale scores for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory which he then compared with his own score. Discrepancies over actual and student assessed scores provided a focus for classroom…

Results of this study indicated that positive feedback was more accepted than the negative feedback. Females as compared to males evidenced less desire for further feedback after receiving negative feedback, while the reverse was true after receiving positive feedback. Personality feedback as compared to intellectual feedback generated a stronger…

Presents a factor analytic study of the nine New York Longitudinal Study's (NYLS) temperament variables in a sample of 160 Swedish children from six months to two years of age. Asserts that results corroborated some of the NYLS's findings as well as those of other studies. (Author/MJL)

A 41-item sociopolitical questionnaire was administered to 209 upper-middle-class, primarily white, high school students. The 37 students scoring highest and 35 students scoring lowest in liberalism responded to interviews, tests, and Q sorts. Results indicate that personality structure is related to adolescents' political orientations and that…

Suggesting that creativity is a useful frame of reference for some aspects of counseling and psychotherapy, the author considers situational and internal blockages to creative activity and discusses psychologically oriented conditions which favor creativity. (CL)

Explored the relationships between measures of self-concept, personality, and communication skills in 463 adolescent girls, and between 35 peer identified leaders and 35 nonleaders. (Author/DB)

Describes a typical disturbance of affectivity in adolescent schizophrenics in which the patient relates to the people around him or her in a superficial, socially acceptable, receptionist-like manner. (SS)

Results concur with the Thomas-Chess findings in identifying three main temperament groups: difficult, easy, and slow to warm up. Membership in the difficult group predicted later childhood behavior disorder in both sexes. (Author)

This paper reports a test-retest study of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory for 257 children, ages 7-16, receiving psychological services in a British Columbia public health facility. Findings support the test author's claims over a 30-day period of relative score stability on extraversion and neuroticism. (Author/SJL)