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Soares, Anthony T.; Soares, Louise M. – 1971
Using the MMPI, this study investigates the extent to which sex lines are diffused among college students who tend to represent the middle class. In a comparison of MMPI scores, male college students scored higher than females on all ten clinical scales with seven of these significant, indicating better adjustment in general for women. In regard…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Students, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Characteristics
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Leonard, C. V. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI) of 36 patient suicides were compared with two matching control groups. Female suicides differed significantly from all male groups and from both female control groups. These differentiating patterns emerged from a population of voluntary psychiatric patients and would not necessarily be…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Predictor Variables, Research Projects, Sex Differences
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Stewart, Robert A. C. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1974
Because of the still imperfectly understood basic factor structure of the MMPI, a Principal Components Analysis and Varimax Rotation was conducted on the MMPI item responses of 50 female undergraduate students of Education at Massey University. Eight factors were extracted. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Analysis, Females, Orthogonal Rotation
Goldberg, Philip A. – 1972
This research sought to determine what personality characteristics are associated with prejudice toward women, and given the reality of such characteristics, what is the functional, personal value of this prejudice. This paper reports on the results of a series of correlational studies intended to answer these questions using a variety of…
Descriptors: Bias, Females, Individual Characteristics, Individual Psychology
Pauker, Jerome D. – 1978
The relationship between the ratings students assigned to an evening undergraduate abnormal psychology class and their scores on objective personality tests and course examinations was investigated. Students (N=70) completed the MMPI and made global ratings of the course; these scores were correlated separately by sex with the T scores of 13 MMPI…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Course Evaluation, Credit Courses