Four hundred and forty-six poor black urban and rural adolescents ages 15-18 enrolled in a summer poverty-work program are administered Gough's Adjective Checklist (ACL) and Holland's Vocatonal Preference Inventory (VPI) to determine their personality profile, to ascertain differences between this gorup and blacks attending colleges, and to study…

Investigates the differences in attitudes toward academic achievement and personality characteristics of third generation Japanese Americans (Sanseis). Sanseis were grouped by sex and high and low achievers and were administered the Adjective Check List and the Asian American Survey. Results show that Sanseis are relatively heterogeneous with…

Male and female undergraduate psychology students were administered the Adjective Check List, Bem Sex Role Inventory and Personal Attributes Questionnaire. The masculinity and femininity subscale scores for each of these three measures were correlated and subjected to a principal factor analysis with varimax rotation separately for males and…

University students rated the Adjective Checklist Items for "strength" and "activity." The principle qualitative differences lay in the connotations of activity and passivity associated, respectively, with the male and female stereotype traits. Any assertion of greater social desirability for the male stereotype was based on…

This study concerned relationships between state (situationally defined) "n" Ach (need for achievement), trait "n" Ach, and sex of subject in 80 college freshmen. Three standard "n" Ach tests and the mean of "n" Ach states measured under nonarousal conditions were used as trait measures. State measures of…

Compares concurrent validity of four sex-role instruments administered to a group of 281 urban university students. Reports that the instruments are sufficiently different in their measurement characteristics to warrant limiting generalizations about behavior based on these instruments to a particular instrument being used. (KH)

A study showed personality traits of both female and male educational administrators in a southwestern urban public school system to be inconsistent with the standards of stereotypical sex-appropriate roles found in earlier studies. Based theoretically on Holland's vocational choice theory, the study surveyed all 64 female administrators at the…

Relationships between aspects of creativity and psychological masculinity and femininity are examined from the perspectives of balance, additive, and catalytic models of androgyny. Female (N=85) and male (N=105) subjects completed Gough's Adjective Check List, (ACL) in which the adjective, "creative," had been inserted. The ACL was…

The author investigates social stereotypes in terms of status of occupations, rather than masculine dominance, and explores more fully the relationship between the need for achievement, sex, and occupational interests. (Author/RK)

The Governor's School of North Carolina is a residential summer program for talented and gifted juniors and seniors from all over the state. It is designed to provide a distinctive educational experience and to serve as an experimental laboratory for innovative instruction. This handbook reports on an extensive testing program carried out at the…