The original Personal Growth Initiative Scale (PGIS; Robitschek, 1998) was unidimensional, despite theory identifying multiple components (e.g., cognition and behavior) of personal growth initiative (PGI). The present research developed a multidimensional measure of the complex process of PGI, while retaining the brief and psychometrically sound…

Several unilinear and bilinear dimensional measurement models of Asian American acculturation and enculturation were tested with confirmatory factor analysis. Bilinear models of acculturation consistently outperformed the unilinear model. In addition, models that articulated multiple dimensions (i.e., values and behavior) exhibited a better fit to…

Using the Twenty Item" Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Six Item" Extraversion and Neuroticism scales, item responses from 241 subjects were collected and intercorrelated. The resultant matrix was transformed to a matrix of correlations among the three scales. Manifest anxiety and neuroticism were found to be largely confounded and both were found…

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)

Interrelationships between patterns of drug abuse and personality and motivation were determined for male and female subjects. Significant sex differences were found with respect to drug behavior. Females used amphetamines more frequently than males and also showed greater multiple drug use. (Author)