Reviews literature on personality and vocational behavior within the framework of the Five Factor Model, in the following clusters: personality and choice-related processes, general career processes, occupational satisfaction and well-being, and organizational outcomes. Summarizes themes and suggests future research directions. Contains 170…

Studied 715 twins and singletons to document heritable influences on temperament during toddler and preschool ages. Found substantial shared environmental influence on positive affect and additive genetic influence on emotion regulation. Intraclass correlations from many scales showed no evidence of "too-low" dizygotic correlations that…

The study of resilience in child development has overturned many negative assumptions about children growing up in adverse conditions. An examination of findings from variable- and person-focused investigations suggests that resilience is common and usually arises from the normative functions of human adaptational systems, with the greatest…

Explores Freeman's (1986) finding that the institution that made the greatest contribution to male African American youths' socioeconomic success was the church. Thirty-two African American, Haitian American, and Latino male and female teenagers were interviewed. Results are interpreted in light of the transactional model and recommendations are…

In the 1930s-1940s, personality inventories measuring psychopathology were used to identify job applicants who might be union sympathizers. Some managers believed that engagement in union activity correlated with psychological problems. Industrial psychologists' involvement in this practice raises ethical questions. (Contains 93 references.) (SK)

Describes the current research findings related to perfectionism in adults and summarizes the recent literature regarding perfectionism in children and adolescents. Makes suggestions for intervention strategies for helping children and adolescents learn to capitalize on the adaptive aspects of perfectionism and remediate the maladaptive aspects of…

Describes how the author's own breakdown propelled her to research resiliency. Outlines five characteristics of young survivors. Argues that young adult fiction offers catharsis for healing, rebuilding, and changing. Discusses three young adult novels in particular, discussing how the five characteristics of resilience are expressed in them. (SR)

Presents a developmental model integrating attachment theory and cognitive developmental approaches in order to further understanding of the processes involved in loss and grief. Considers the relevance of attachment theory to understanding grief and research evidence for the role of continuing attachment bonds after death as a strategy for…

Standard and supplementary scales designed to detect underreporting of symptoms on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the MMPI-2 were studied with 50 individuals who completed the MMPI-2 under fake-good instructions and 50 who had standard instructions. Two supplementary scales were valuable in discriminating standard from…

Examined parents' and 4-month-old infants' behavior during face-to-face interactions. Results indicated that mothers and fathers were equally sensitive to their infants, and that infants' affect and regulatory behaviors were stable across mother-infant and father-infant situations in the still-face model. (BC)

Measures of career success and an inventory of the Five-Factor Model of Personality were completed by 496 workers. Extraversion was related positively to salary, promotion, and career satisfaction; neuroticism was related negatively to satisfaction. A significant negative relationship between agreeableness and salary was found for workers in…

The NEO Personality Inventory and intrinsic and extrinsic career success measures were completed by 1,885 U.S. and 1,871 European executives. Neuroticism was associated with lower extrinsic success for U.S. executives, extroversion with higher extrinsic success for European executives. Extroversion was related positively and neuroticism negatively…

The University of California Santa Barbara Career Center library was reorganized using Holland's six career themes, each tied to a computer that begins at a web portal for that theme. Bookmarks provide access to relevant links. (SK)

The personality preferences and temperaments of 82 intermediate accounting students were identified by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Keirsey Temperament Sorter. Relationships were found between personality variables and the number of class absences, class participation, and the performance in homework and problems on the final examination.…

Examines the female characters in Dylan Thomas's "Under Milkwood" from a Jungian perspective employing Toni Wolff's framework for analyzing the female psyche as well as female archetypes proposed by Jung. Examines only the "womenfolk" of the town, but through them also gain some insight into their men. (SC)