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Peer reviewedChipuer, H. M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Assessed the family environment and personality of 400 pairs of 59-year-old twins. Genetic influences on extraversion and neuroticism were related to genetic influences on the family environment factors of relationship and personal growth but not to the factor of system maintenance. (BC)
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Extraversion Introversion, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedAustin, Elizabeth J.; Gibson, Gavin J.; Deary, Ian J. – Intelligence, 1997
The interrelationship between personality and intelligence was investigated in several studies using data from a survey of 210 Scottish farmers. Evidence was found for increased differentiation of neuroticism and openness at higher levels of ability. There was no support for the hypothesis that intelligence affects the correlation between…
Descriptors: Ability, Correlation, Extraversion Introversion, Farmers
Peer reviewedLounsbury, John W.; Tatum, Holly E.; Chambers, Wendy; Owens, Kim S.; Gibson, Lucy W. – College Student Journal, 1999
Examination of "big five" personality constructs as related to career choice in 249 undergraduate students found that career decidedness was positively and significantly related to life satisfaction, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and negatively related to neuroticism. Findings are discussed in relation to construct validation of career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Choice, Higher Education, Life Satisfaction
Direct linkMuris, Peter; Dietvorst, Roeland – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2006
Behavioral inhibition refers to the tendency of children to be unusually shy and to react with fear and withdrawal in situations that are novel and/or unfamiliar, and is generally regarded as a vulnerability factor for developing anxiety disorders. The present study investigated the hypothesis that behavioral inhibition is characterized by a…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Children, Security (Psychology), Shyness
Houzel, Didier – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2004
Starting from Frances Tustin's description of failure of the containing function in autistic children due to a splitting between the masculine and feminine aspects of the containing object, the author suggests that the first stage in the psychoanalytic treatment of an autistic child consists in restoring that function by working through what he…
Descriptors: Fantasy, Autism, Neurosis, Psychiatry
Pergadia, Michele L.; Madden, Pamela A. F.; Lessov, Christina N.; Todorov, Alexandre A.; Bucholz, Kathleen K.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Heath, Andrew C. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: The objective was to determine whether the pattern of environmental and genetic influences on deviant personality scores differs from that observed for the normative range of personality, comparing results in adolescent and adult female twins. Methods: A sample of 2,796 female adolescent twins ascertained from birth records provided…
Descriptors: Twins, Females, Adolescents, Genetics
Wright, Loyd S.; Couch, R. David – 1984
Ellis' rational emotive theory is based on the assumption that people are born with a potential for both rational and irrational thinking. To analyze the relationship of irrational beliefs to sensitivity, depression, submission, anxiety, and neuroticism, an Irrationality Scale, containing eight irrational beliefs, was constructed from a review of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Witt, Shirley Hill – Civil Rights Digest, 1974
Suggests that when the commonalities between minority and majority women are recognized, a national movement for the equalities of peoples and sexes will be underway. (Author/SF)
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indians, Educationally Disadvantaged, Ethnic Groups
Pedersen, Darhl M.; Higbee, Kenneth L. – J Soc Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Correlation, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Characteristics, Mental Health
Erickson, Marilyn T. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Based on paper presented at 1967 meeting of the American Psychological Association.
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Neurosis
Download full textChelune, Gordon J. – 1979
The relationship between dispositional level of self-disclosure or disclosure flexibility--a measure of appropriateness of self-disclosure with respect to social-situational norms--and indices of effective interpersonal functioning were investigated in two experiments. Results of Study I revealed that when differences in social desirability were…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Disclosure
BURKE, AUTHETA; WEISS, MORRIS – 1967
A FIVE TO 10 YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF A GROUP OF 16 CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS ORIGINALLY HOSPITALIZED FOR A SCHOOL PHOBIC SYNDROME IS REPORTED. THE PRIMARY FOCUS WAS UPON 14 NEUROTIC CHILDREN. THE OTHER TWO CHILDREN WERE CLASSIFIED AS BORDERLINE PSYCHOTICS. AT THE TIME OF THE FOLLOW-UP, THE FOUR MALES AND 10 FEMALES RANGED IN AGE FROM 14 TO 23 WITH…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Adults, Children
KELLY, FRANCIS J. – 1965
THE LACK OF CONSENSUS AMONG MEDICAL-LEGAL AUTHORITIES AS TO THE MEANING OF DELINQUENCY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF DELINQUENT CHILDREN IS DESCRIBED. THIS CONFLICT IS GENERAL IN THAT THE LEGAL DEFINITION EMPHASIZES BEHAVIOR AND ACTION WHILE THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFINITION EMPHASIZES THE ENDOPSYCHIC CONFLICT AND NEED MOTIVATING THE BEHAVIOR. EMPHASIS IS…
Descriptors: Classification, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Moore, Charlotte Dickinson – 1978
Understanding, one of the chief components of prevention in mental health, is not for the researcher or clinician only, but for all who may be concerned with their own conflict and pain or that of family members. Looking at neurotic disorders requires the examination of guilt which burdens individuals as they realize their failure to fulfill…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Behavior Patterns, Mental Disorders
Van Atta, Ralph – 1975
Observation of the treatment process and outcomes research may interfere with self-gratifications and may shatter illusions about a therapist's omnipotence. Consequently, research and evaluation must be understood to threaten, inherently, personal need gratification of therapists. The author discusses several reality-based therapist objections to…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Evaluation, Environmental Influences, Needs
