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Test Anxiety and Its Effect on the Personality of Students with Learning Disabilities
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Lufi, Dubi; Okasha, Susan; Cohen, Arie – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2004
The purpose of this study was to look for personality variables that characterized young adults with learning disabilities and test anxiety. Fifty-four Israeli adults diagnosed with learning disabilities participated in the study, 24 of them were diagnosed as having test anxiety; 30 did not have test anxiety. The participants completed the Test…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Test Anxiety
Comparison of the 2-7-8 MMPI Profile and the Perceptual Aberration-Magical Ideation Scale in Identifying Hypothetically Psychosis-Prone College Students.
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Fujioka, Terry Ann T.; Chapman, Loren J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1984
Compared college students with 2-7-8 profiles on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (N=39) and students scoring high on the Perceptual Aberration-Magical Ideation Scale (N=41) on symptoms thought to indicate psychosis proneness. Results indicated that the groups did not differ on the number of subjects with psychotic and…
Descriptors: College Students, High Risk Persons, Higher Education, Predictor Variables
The Prediction of Paranoid Behavior: Comparative Validities of Obvious vs. Subtle MMPI Paranoia (Pa) Items.
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Hovanitz, Christine A.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983
Investigated the relationship between the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory paranoia subtle, neutral, and obvious subscales and criteria presumed to reflect various paranoid characteristics in a sample of male college students (N=100). Results showed that both the obvious and subtle Pa Items predicted various criteria. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Paranoid Behavior, Personality Traits
Undergraduate MMPI Profiles and the Longitudinal Prediction of Adult Social Outcome
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Dworkin, Robert H.; Widom, Cathy S. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Adult follow-up information on social outcome variables was obtained for males who had taken the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) during their junior year. Individuals with undergraduate profiles indicative of psychopathology differed significantly in marital and educational status when compared to the no-high-point group 10…
Descriptors: Adult Development, College Students, Longitudinal Studies, Personality Measures
Prediction of Early U.S. Air Force Freshman Cadet Adaptation with the MMPI
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Lachar, David – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
This study tested the predictive ability of MMPI scales to identify United States Air Force Academy freshmen who were "high risk" for problems of emotional adjustment and subsequent separation from the Academy. Rate of attrition and problems in emotional adaptation leading to separation were significantly greater in the high-risk group…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), College Students, Emotional Problems, Individual Testing
Meaningfulness of MMPI Clinical Scale Sex Differences For Hard Drug Abusers and For University Counseling Center Clients.
Plant, Walter T. – 1979
With the resurgence of interest in sex differences research, it is important to use a "confidence interval" strategy in organizing and interpreting material rather than a strategy of statistical significance or non-significance. Investigators are urged to go beyond the reporting of statistical significance and to determine something…
Descriptors: College Students, Drug Abuse, Measurement Instruments, Personality Measures