The present results confirm the contention that the scales of a new personality inventory, the Differential Personality, exhibit to a satisfactory degree that most desirable of scale properties: factorial simplicity or homogeneity. (Author)

This study investigated the relationship between similarity of interests and likability. Consistent with the general hypothesis, a strong positive relationship was found between interest similarity and rated attraction. (Author)

The results of the current study, as well as the Zimmer and Cowles (1972) study using quite different procedures, involved a comparison of client-centered, gestalt, and rational therapies and do not support the conclusion that therapeutic relationships tend to be characteristically the same. Theoretical orientation as operationalized by…

Among the results of the study on differing occupational interests of persistors and nonpersistors are: (1) successful persisters have engineering related interests and reject Social Service Interest: (2) successful transfers have verbally expressive and leadership interest and reject technical interest. (Author)

The results of this study which investigated several personality attributes of 140 vocational rehabilitation clients in relation to their locus of control, showed that internals and externals showed significant mean differences on their ability to work with others, cooperation, self reliance, work tolerance, and other factors. (Author)

The results of this study on the relation of personality to vocational choice, suggests that personality patterns of occupational groups are more a function of those who enter and persist in the group than those who transfer to it. (Author)

Explored the validity of the College Self-Expression Scale (CSES) for 144 students in the context of three alternative models of behavior--personism, situationalism, and interactionalism. Results supported the concurrent validity of the CSES and the role of both person and situational, but not interactional, influences on assertion. (WAS)

This article contrasts with a sample of college students the youthful members of two expressively alienated forms of nonconformity: student activists committed to confrontation tactics to force social change and disaffiliated college dropouts withdrawn from incompatible social conditions. (Author)

The different responses of introverts and extraverts to two types of helper nonverbal attending were examined. Subjects were 26 introverts and 26 extraverts, as defined by Eysenck and Eysenck's questionnaire. Introverts rated the listener higher than did extraverts, independent of his posture. (Author)

Determined effects of time limits on interview behavior of Type A and B persons. Type A and B participants discussed positive and negative aspects of social life with counselors in time-limited or time-unlimited conditions. Significant differences in both productivity and anxiety emerged. Treatment implications are discussed. (Author)

Subjects associated degrees of stress with experiences of social isolation and powerlessness. High internals reported higher stress than moderate or low internals. High internal clients reported lower self-esteem, higher stress, and less control over recent events than nonclients. (Author/BEF)

Based on the factorial analysis of data collected from 260 undergraduates, this study found differences in self-revealing associated with information content, target person, and sex of subject. Gilding was found to be related to self-disclosure and intimate rather than superficial information. Dogmatism did not influence either revealing or…