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Peer reviewedPanek, Paul E. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The Group Embedded Figures Test and the Hand Test were administered to 64 community-living females, aged 60 to 81 years old. Seven low but significant correlations were obtained between personality variables and field-dependence/independence. Findings suggest that many postulated field-dependence/independence personality relations change with old…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Correlation, Females, Middle Aged Adults
Peer reviewedBachtold, Louise M. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980
A physiological basis for creative behavior is presented in the hypothesis that creativity is a problem-solving response by intelligent, very active, highly emotional, and extremely introverted persons. (Author)
Descriptors: Creativity, Individual Characteristics, Personality Theories, Personality Traits
Peer reviewedSchoenfeld, Lawrence S. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Theories, Test Construction, Test Reliability
Peer reviewedReynolds, Cecil R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale was administered to 534 children (grades 4-6) at the beginning and end of the school year. The total anxiety score correlated .68 across the nine-month period, supporting the temporal stability of the test. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Intermediate Grades, Personality Measures, Personality Traits
Peer reviewedValliant, Paul M.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
Seventy-one competitive, noncompetitive and nonathletes were compared on Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor and Rotter's locus of control questionnaires. Athletes appeared more dominant and less imaginative than nonathletes. Noncompetitive athletes were also less self-sufficient than the others, and females were generally more venturesome than…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Students, Competition, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWachtel, Paul L. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cognitive Processes, Habit Formation, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedFletcher, Raymond – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Individual Characteristics, Intramural Athletics
Peer reviewedLoewenstine, Harold V.; Paludi, Michele A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Relationship between Type A/B behavior patterns and motive of success avoidance in women was investigated. Type B women are concerned with antagonizing others as a result of succeeding more than Type A women. Type B women may be realistically appraising achievement situations, especially the costs of success through competition. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Fear of Success, Females, Higher Education, Low Achievement
Peer reviewedWeiss, Daniel S. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
The personality characteristics of three professional groups, each rated for level of creativity, were investigated using the California Psychological Inventory. Samples of male architects, mathematicians, and research scientists were compared and then combined to allow an over-all pattern of personality characteristics associated with creative…
Descriptors: Adults, Architects, Correlation, Creativity
Peer reviewedRobbins, Paul R.; Tanck, Roland H. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedCrowther, Betty – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cues, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedLazarus, Philip J. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Ninety-eight children identified as shy, based on their self-perceptions and specific criteria related to shyness, were administered a self-esteem inventory and self-report measures of shyness. A significant correlation between shyness and self-esteem scores indicated that shyness is related to low self-esteem. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Correlation, Intermediate Grades, Personality Studies, Personality Traits
Peer reviewedEysenck, Hans J. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Correlation, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences, Intelligence
Peer reviewedBlau, Gary; Katerberg, Ralph – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Two predictions derived from the view that agreeing response set is a personality manifestation were tested: (a) nay-sayers maintain more belief consistency than do yea-sayers, and (b) nay-sayers are more intellectually oriented, while yea-sayers are more emotionally oriented. Both predictions were supported using Air Force trainee subjects.…
Descriptors: Adults, Interviews, Longitudinal Studies, Personality Assessment
Peer reviewedAamodt, Michael G.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The personality profiles of nonathletes and baseball, football, and track team members were investigated as segmented types. The Personality Profile System found no differences in baseball players from nonathletes, and football players and track team members were more dominant and less patient than nonathletes. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Athletes, Baseball, Behavior Patterns, Football
