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A Critique of Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory
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Oakland, 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
The POI: A Validity Check
Graff, Robert W.; And Others – Educ Psychol Meas, 1970
Several of the POI variables were found to predict the effectiveness of dormitory assistants when using students' ratings as a criterion measure. (DG)
Descriptors: Colleges, Dormitories, Evaluation Methods, Personality Assessment
Self-Actualization and Entrepreneurial Orientation among Small Business Owners: A Validation Study of the POI
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Knapp, Robert R.; Lessner, Milton – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1974
Descriptors: Administrators, Business, Craft Workers, Merchants
Sensitivity of the POI to Instructional Set in Military and College Populations
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
Social Desirability and Psychometric Characteristics of the Personal Orientation Inventory
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Abbott, Robert D.; Harris, Louise – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Forced Choice Technique, Individual Characteristics, Personality Measures
Construct Validation of Concepts of Actualizing Measured by the Personal Orientation Dimensions.
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Jansen, David G.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1979
Scores from the Comrey Personality Scales were related to scores from the Personal Orientation Dimension for a sample of alcoholic inpatients. Results supported the findings of an earlier study and helped to clarify the construct validity of the instruments. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Adults, Alcoholism, Individual Characteristics, Males
The Measurement of Self-Actualization: A Critical Review of the Personal Orientation Inventory
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Tosi, 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
Compatibility of Self-Actualization and Anxiety.
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Dodez, Orin; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Examined the relationship between anxiety and self-actualization in a sample of college students. Items (N=33) from the Personal Orientation Inventory were found to measure anxiety and scored negatively for self-actualization. Removal of anxiety items and rescoring yielded self-actualization measures related postively to anxiety test scores.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Development
Level of School Counselor Actualizing and Student Perception of Guidance Services: Further Validation of the Personal Orientation Inventory
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Weinrach, Stephen G.; Knapp, Robert R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1976
Significant correlations were obtained between student ratings of the effectiveness of the guidance program and Personal Orientation Inventory scales of Time Competence and Spontaneity. Thus, the more actualizing the counselor as measured by POI, the more likely the students were to assign high ratings to the school guidance program. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Counselor Characteristics, Grade 11, Guidance Programs, Personality Measures
Cross-Cultural Validation of the Effects of Dissimulation on a Measure of Actualizing.
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Knapp, Robert R.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
The resistance of the Personal Orientation Inventory to deliberate attempts to fake in a positive direction was investigated for samples of Spanish- speaking Nicaraguan students and industrial workers. Results were consistent with findings from American samples, particularly the consistently lower existentiality scores. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Industrial Personnel