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Download full textCohen, Arthur M.; And Others – 1969
In an effort to identify characteristics that relate to student dropout, 259 entering freshmen at a large community college were studied with personality, ability, and demographic measures, and it was hypothesized that a group of highly efficient predictor variables would become evident. Instruments used were the Omnibus Personality Inventory…
Descriptors: Ability, Demography, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
Peer reviewedGilligan, John F. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1973
Responses of selectors and nonselectors indicated no significant differences between groups at the social-emotional adjustment level. However, selectors were not only more interested in reflective thought and academic activities but were also less conservative and authoritarian than nonselectors. As a group, selectors were distinctly more…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Students, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Characteristics
Britton, Ronald B. – 1976
Sixty randomly selected College of Education Division freshmen from a major midwestern university were administered the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) as they entered and exited their freshman year. Twelve of the OPI's fourteen factor-analyzed personality characteristic scales were used. For each OPI personality characteristic used, two null…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Higher Education, Personality Change
Elton,Charles F.; Rose, Harriett A. – Journal of Engineering Education, 1971
Descriptors: College Science, Dropout Characteristics, Engineering Education, Personality Measures
Lange, Arthur J.; And Others – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1974
The possibility that significant differences exist between college student subgroups, as measured by the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI), was tested with 99 university students and was supported. Intellectual disposition variables consistently yielded significant differences among subgroups. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Students, Individual Differences, Intelligence
Peer reviewedYonge, George D.; Regan, Mary C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
Several aspects of Holland's theory of vocational choice are examined using freshman and senior Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) and freshman Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) data for 833 men. Generally, evidence in support of Holland's theory is based on relationships which have been well established and known for a long time. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Majors (Students), Males
Goodyear, Rodney K.; Frank, Austin C. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1977
This study provides an analysis and cross-validation of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) occupational introversion-extroversion (OIE) scale, a parent of the IE scale in the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Comparative Analysis, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures
Morstain, Barry R. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1975
The Omnibus Personality Inventory and the Student Orientations Survey were administered to undergraduates at three institutions and substantial correlations between various scales of these two inventories were obtained. On the whole, students' educational attitudes were consonant with their general personality characteristics and orientations.…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attitudes, College Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMarple, Betty Lou N. – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1976
This study explores personality differences between adult women students in an undergraduate college and women of the usual undergraduate age. Seven of the 18 California Personality Inventory (CPI) scale comparisons showed significant differences, and eight of the 14 Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) scale comparisons showed significant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Students, College Students
Freeman, James Andrew – 1980
A study correlated the results of the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) and two holistically scored narrative writing samples to determine how high school students' intellectual and emotional characteristics affected their writing improvement. Students in a small West Coast high school completed the OPI and generated a pretest writing sample in…
Descriptors: High Schools, Holistic Evaluation, Personality Assessment, Personality Traits
Kuh, George D. – 1980
A study attempted to substantiate empirically whether changes occurred in the personality functioning of adult learners and traditional-age students during the first year of college. The Omnibus Personality Inventory and companion questionnaires were administered to randomly selected groups of students from two campuses of a midwestern state…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Brawer, Florence B. – 1973
A new method of assessing college students that yields a full, multidimensional profile of the student's total personality is presented in the 12 chapters of this book. Chapter 1 provides theoretical formulations based on empirical data. In Chapter 2, three concepts that are basic to the central construct are described. The central construct is…
Descriptors: Books, College Freshmen, College Students, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedChickering, Arthur W. – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1974
This article discusses students' attitudes and beliefs in the areas of autonomy, practical outlook, impulse expression, complexity, estheticism, thinking introversion, masculinity-feminity, personal integration, anxiety level, religious orientation, altruism, social extroversion, and response bias. (PD)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Personality Development, Student Attitudes
Davidson, Sidney H., Jr. – 1974
The principal objective of this five-year longitudinal study was to determine the efficacy of employing the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) and the American College Testing (ACT) program scores in designing a predictive model for identifying entering community college freshmen students' propensity to fall into one of three categories:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
ALFERT, ELIZABETH; SUCZEK, ROBERT F. – 1966
AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF THE PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF COLLEGE DROPOUTS. PERSONALITY INVENTORIES AND RESPONSES TO QUESTIONNAIRES WERE USED TO DISTINGUISH PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS UNIQUE OR ESPECIALLY PREVALENT AMONG DROPOUTS. THE PERSONALITY SCALE DATA AND MOST OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE DATA USED IN THE STUDY WERE MADE AVAILABLE FROM…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
