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Attitudes of Male Alcoholics towards Equal Freedom for Women: Personality Correlates.
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Cernovsky, Zdenek – Social Behavior and Personality, 1986
Examined responses of 86 chronic alcoholic males to item 101 of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), "I believe women ought to have as much sexual freedom as men." The proportion of responses with "False" was similar to recent normative MMPI data on normal US Midwest males. (Author/KS)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Attitudes, Males, Personality Traits
Perceived Intelligence in Married Partners
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Bailey, Roger C.; Mettetal, Gwynn W. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1977
Married couples (N=20) were administered the Self-rating Scale of Intelligence and the Otis intelligence test. Positive correlations were generally found between self-other intelligence estimates and actual intelligence for both husbands and wives. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Correlation, Intelligence Differences, Marriage
A Caveat on the Use of Rating Scales to Assess Masculinity and Femininity.
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Vestewig, Richard E.; Stericker, Anne B. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1978
Occupations (N=60) were rated for degree of masculinity and femininity on rating scales: bipolar, unipolar and percent of each sex in an occupation scale. Concluded that, since personality inventory measures of masculinity and femininity are not unidimensional, rating scale approaches to measuring masculinity and femininity may give misleading…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Females, Femininity
Attraction and Evaluation as a Function of the Ingratiating Style of a Person.
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Pandey, Janak; Bohra, Kayyum A. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1986
Examined the way male undergraduates (N=48) evaluated an ingratiating/non-ingratiating person, particularly when the evaluations were not the target of his compliments. Results revealed that the person's ingratiating versus non-ingratiating style significantly influenced subjects' attraction and evaluation toward him. The non-ingratiating person…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Cultural Traits, Evaluation Criteria
Psychopathology and Women's Attitudes Towards Equal Rights: An MMPI Study.
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Cernovsky, Zack Zdenek – Social Behavior and Personality, 1986
Female alcohol and drug addicts (N=86) entering treatment took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Women affirming the item "I believe women ought to have as much sexual freedom as men" were younger, had better visuospatial reasoning skills, and scored less pathologically on MMPI measures of depression, neurotic…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Emotional Adjustment, Females, Foreign Countries
Personality Variables and Eating, Drinking, and Smoking in Adult Women.
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Beckwith, Joan B. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1986
Studied discipline, social competence, sophistication, and religiosity in relation to eating, drinking, and smoking behaviors in young women. Supported discipline's general relevance to a broad range of behaviors. Social competence, sophistication, and religiosity moderated discipline's form of expression. The personality variables had stronger…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Discipline, Drinking
Personality of the Judge in Recognition of Departure from Role Expectation.
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Heslin, Richard; Collins, Jack – Social Behavior and Personality, 1981
Other-directed (interpersonally sensitive) or inner-directed (interpersonally less sensitive) students (N=80) observed a videotape of a person acting in either a role-consonant or a role-deviant manner. As expected, there was significantly less variance among the ratings when other-directed observers viewed role-deviant behavior than in the other…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Expectation