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Peer reviewedKay, Edwin; And Others – Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1978
Shostrom (1966) developed the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) to measure various aspects of self-actualization. A number of validity studies have been reported but only two reliability studies have appeared in the literature. This research reports a three-year study of personality correlates of student drug use at Lehigh University in which…
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Self Actualization, Tables (Data)
Peer reviewedOakland, James A.; And Others – Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1978
Everett Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory is a significant and widely used contribution to humanistic psychology and personality assessment. W. S. Zimmerman (1969) evaluated the POI and his observations led to the development of a complementary form, the POD (Personal Orientation Dimensions) and to a new test, the DOSAB (Dimensions of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Self Actualization
Peer reviewedSilverstein, A. B.; Fisher, Gary – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1975
Responses of male prisoners to the Personal Orientation Inventory were clustered, using hierarchical linkage analysis. Six second-order clusters accounted for all the items. Reliabilities of these clusters were comparable to those of the first-order clusters. Relative validity of cluster scores and scale scores remains to be determined. (RC)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Correlation, Item Analysis, Personality Measures
Peer reviewedSilverstein, A. B.; Fisher, Gary – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1974
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Males
Hix, Judith A.; Hensley, J. Higgins – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1978
The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) is supposedly resistant to faking. This assumption was experimentally tested with 156 naive adult college and military participants by manipulating instructional set. Results indicate that participants were able to elevate or depress their scores as directed. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Military Personnel, Personality Measures, Research Projects
Peer reviewedTosi, Donald J.; Lindamood, Cathy A. – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1975
A current review of research on the reliability and validity of the Personal Orientation Inventory is provided. (DEP)
Descriptors: Counseling, Literature Reviews, Personality Measures, Psychological Testing
Peer reviewedPrescott, Mary R.; And Others – Counselor Education and Supervision, 1977
POI Fakability during counselor selection procedures was investigated through two test administrations with a group of 21 new graduate students in counseling. Subjects were not given self-actualization information. The results imply new counseling students have sufficient information about self-actualization to disseminate Personality Orientation…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Personality Measures, Personnel Selection, Research Projects
