Confirmed the relationship among identity achievement, value competence, and valuing fulfillment, in a study involving 99 college students. Suggested that identity status may reflect axiological maturity, but an increase in the level of such maturity is needed. (JAC)

Strength, super ego strength, ego, self sentiment, and both forms of the High School Personality Questionnaire were administered to 688 brothers and 2973 unrelated boys. Multiple abstract variance analysis (MAVA) Q-Data, and maximum likelihood analysis were used to assess heritability in their personality control system. (ABB)

Administered the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire to boys (N=1117) and girls (N=1199) in Greece for standardization purposes. Results indicated that factor comparisons between England and Greece are reasonably high, strongly suggesting identical factors in both countries. (LLL)

Results from use of Role Construct Repertory Test and Bipolar Implication Grid with 17 undergraduates support hypotheses that: (1) personal constructs elicited early in repertory test are subjectively more important than those elicited later; (2) former tend to be more meaningful than latter in terms of implication potential; and (3) implication…

A study of the extent to which people are likely to attribute traits to other people rather more than to themselves produced support for the Jones and Nisbett hypothesis. The level of trait attribution in the present study was higher than that obtained in previous studies. (Author)

Examined the comparability of Rorschach Inkblots and the Holtzman Inkblots. Subjects (N=27) were administered both instruments and their responses scored using the standard Holtzman Inkblot Technique variables. The number of responses was controlled when using the Rorschach. Results indicate that the Rorschach Inkblots were a satisfactory…

Examined the relationship between perceived mental illness and attribution of responsibility. Subjects evaluated data from various accident cases. Although greater mental illness was attributed to alcoholism and paranoid cases, greater responsibility was attributed to the alcoholic. Only in the normal case was greater responsibility related to…

Findings showed that mothers who construed themselves as highly similar to their child manifested more warmth toward that child. This relationship was not influenced by the mothers' social desirability scores. The child's IQ was not related to the main variables in this study. (Author/BEF)

Results indicate a positive relationship between talking rate and leadership choice. People show the greatest liking for those with moderate levels of talking. (Author/BEF)

Explored private and public self-consciousness as measured by two subscales of Self-Consciousness Scale. Results from study of 60 college students support assumption that private and public subscales measure relatively stable traits. Psychiatric patient subjects (N=120) in second study differed from undergraduates in first study in strength of…

The obese face severe discriminatory reactions, leading to low rates of prosocial intervention and devaluation of ability and potential. It is no surprise that the obese adopt negative self-images. Further research should explore how body build influences hiring, job advancement, salary, jury deliberations, and college admissions. (Author)