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Silberman, Stephen L.; And Others – Journal of Dental Education, 1992
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was administered to five classes of students (n=161) at the beginning and end of their dental education to evaluate changes in personality type. The study showed 75.8 percent of students change type during their dental education using one standard, and 11.2 percent showed changes in personality using another…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Data Analysis, Dental Students
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Strahan, Robert F. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1987
Describes two new measures of consistency which refer to the extent to which more closely related scale types are found together in Holland's Self-Directed Search sort. One measure is based on the hexagonal model for use with three-point codes. The other is based on conditional probabilities for use with two-point codes. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Personality Measures, Reliability
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Comrey, Andrew L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Addresses common pitfalls in homogeneous scale construction in clinical and social psychology. Offers suggestions about item writing, answer scale formats, data analysis procedures, and overall scale development strategy. Emphasizes effective use of factor-analytic methods to select items for scales and to determine its proper location in…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Data Analysis, Factor Analysis, Personality Measures
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Gati, Itamar – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Tested models of interests by examining the significance of disconfirmed ordinal predictions. Examined data regarding Holland's hexagonal model and Roe's circular ordering. Tested adequacy of the hierarchical model and compared significance of the disconfirmed predictions of the hierachical model to that of the hexagonal-circular model. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Yang, Philip Q. – International Migration Review, 1994
Proposes a broad analytical framework in the study of immigrant naturalization that incorporates an immigrant's individual characteristics with the larger social contexts in the country of origin and the country of destination to explain the likelihood of citizenship acquisition. Results testing of this framework show that such considerations are…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Citizenship, Cultural Influences, Data Analysis