Some 854 upperclassmen and graduate students were administered the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS). Profiles were analyzed in individual groupings by major area of study, natural combinations of interest, and indivudal major area groupings by school to identify the dominant personality needs of each group. Cross comparisons were also…

The possibility that significant differences exist between college student subgroups, as measured by the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI), was tested with 99 university students and was supported. Intellectual disposition variables consistently yielded significant differences among subgroups. (Author)

College freshmen (N=80) who scored near the mean on the Extraversion (E) and Neuroticism (N) scales of the Eysenck Personality Inventory were given falsified score reports. The findings are considered in terms of social desirability and reaction to stereotypical female sex roles. (Author)

Male undergraduates (N=35) were divided into three groups on the basis of scores on Mosher's Forced-Choice Guilt Inventory. The amount of time subjects spent viewing and rating photographic slides of varying erotic content was unobtrusively recorded. Results are consistent with a predicted defensive response for high sex guilt subjects. (Author)

The relationship between locus of control of reinforcement, perceptual style, and personality variables was investigated using a population of 133 white urban college men and women. (Author)

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship of the limitation and outcome of simultaneous speech to those dimensions of personality indexes by Cattell's 16PF Questionnaire. More than 500 conversations of 24 female college students were computer-analyzed for instances of simultaneous speech, and the frequencies with which they…

The California Psychological Inventory (CPI), the Levanthal Anxiety Scale, the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), and a questionnaire determining various demographic and situational variables relevant to death anxiety were administered to college students (N=180). Percentage of the variance of death anxiety accounted for by each predictor variable…

Returning women students (N=24) and their families were interviewed and the adults given measures of personality traits. Adult personality scores seemed to vary with academic rank and length of time in school as wives. Family coping style was related to the wife's performance of the student role. (Author)

The complementarity hypothesis which suggests that A-type therapists be paired with B-type clients and vice versa was tested in an analogue study while several main effects of interest were found, the interaction of client and therapist characteristics was found to be in the reverse direction of expectation. (NG)

This study focused on the efficiency of family variables in predicting university student personality types (expressed occupational choices) within the framework of Holland's theory. Eight of 22 family variables emerged as the best predictors of personality types. (Author)

This study described the relationship between the affiliation and succorance scales of the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule and each of 32 other test and biographical variables. The pattern of correlates with the need for affiliation was compared with the pattern of correlates with need for succorance. (Author)

The Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire (16PF) were administered to 425 undergraduate students and compared using canonical analysis. The contributions of the scales of the VPI and the 16PF to the three relationships supported Hollans's theory of vocational choice, the use of the VPI for…

Cross-sex equalization of vocational interests in the college population was tested by comparing 150 female and 150 male college counselees with the "women in general" and "men in general" samples of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory. College females differed little from women in general. (Author)

This study compared the scores obtained on the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire, the Strong Vocational Interest Blanks for Men and Women, and the General Aptitude Test Battery by groups of relatively effective and relatively ineffective counselor trainees (N=74). Data revealed significant differences in the needs, interests, and abilities of the…

The present study raises serious questions regarding the interpretation of earlier research that has generally indicated that "favorable" personality descriptions are accepted more highly than "unfavorable" personality descriptions. The higher acceptance evidently resulted from the greater base-rate truthfulness existing in the favorable…