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Peer reviewedDudley, Harold K., Jr.; And Others – Adolescence, 1981
Compares the results of two personality inventories used with 63 adolescent patients in a state mental hospital. The inventories used were the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Mental Disorders, Personality Assessment
Peer reviewedMonroe, Lawrence J.; Marks, Philip A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
The purpose of this study was to compare Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) results of 53 adolescent poor sleepers with a matched control group of 53 good sleepers. Adolescents, like adults, show a highly significant relationship between neurotic personality functioning and poor sleep. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Individual Differences, Personality Assessment
Peer reviewedSagi, Abraham; Eisikovits, Zvi – Criminal Justice and Behavior, 1981
Compared the moral development of delinquent and nondelinquent adolescents. Subjects (N=249) were administered a morality test for children including the following measures: resistance to temptation, moral stage, feelings after offense, judgment about the severity of punishment, and confession. In most measures of moral development, nondelinquents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Delinquency, Discipline
Direct linkPalmer, Glen A.; Daiss, Doyle D. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2005
A comparison of personality factors on scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) was conducted with a sample of adolescents referred to a residential substance abuse treatment program. A total of sixty adolescents identified with hallucinogen (n = 20), cannabis (n = 20), or methamphetamine (n = 20) as their drug…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Schizophrenia, Personality Assessment, Marijuana
Peer reviewedStewart, David W.; Louisa, Valentino – Psychology in the Schools, 1976
Intelligence and academic achievement scores of 180 emotionally disturbed adolescents were related to the personality profiles via a canonical variate analysis. The emotionally disturbed adolescent who is low in ego strength, tense, guilt prone, sensitive, shy, and submissive tended to be more intelligent and demonstrate higher academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
Download full textZiller, Robert C., Ed.; Long, Barbara H., Ed. – 1967
Based on a theory of personality in which the self, considered as a perceptual agent, is defined in terms of interpersonal orientation, seven components of self-other orientation are proposed: (1) majority identification, (2) complexity, (3) power, (4) self-esteem, (5) self-centrality, (6) identification, and (7) social dependence. The self-social…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Family Mobility, Indians
Brown, Nina W.
Four hundred and forty-six poor black urban and rural adolescents ages 15-18 enrolled in a summer poverty-work program are administered Gough's Adjective Checklist (ACL) and Holland's Vocatonal Preference Inventory (VPI) to determine their personality profile, to ascertain differences between this gorup and blacks attending colleges, and to study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, College Students, Comparative Analysis
