This study was an effort to identify correlates of creativity in women. A sample of 447 college students were given the picture completion subtest of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, the "How Do You Think Test," the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, the Multidimensional Self-Esteem Inventory, the Family Environment Scale, and the…

This research study was conducted to map out the demographic and psychological aspects of Internet child pornography offenders. The backgrounds, characteristics, and MMPI profiles of 22 Internet child pornography offenders were statistically compared to those of 112 perpetrators of other offenses. In comparison to the other sexual offenders, the…

Reviews research concerning the usefulness of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in identification of alcoholics' personality characteristics. Discusses scales, profile configurations, and item analyses. Finds no single personality type characteristic of all alcoholics, although six cluster types occur with consistency. Alcoholics…

Data obtained from extracted short-forms support a hypothesis that a California Personality Inventory short-form that includes all of those items previously demonstrated to constitute an Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory short-form can be an accurate predictor of the full-version CPI. (Author)

In view of a lack of objective personality data on adjustment problems of impaired adolescents, this research attempts to determine whether significant personality differences would be reflected by the MMPI between a group of impaired and nonimpaired adolescents. (Author/RK)

Profiled adult first offender Texas shoplifters (N=94). Results indicated that the modal shoplifter is female, Hispanic, and has a poor self-concept. Males tend to act more impulsively than females in shoplifting style, and shoplifters tend to be anxious, depressed, and self-doubting. (WAS)

Compares highly educated professional blacks with blacks whose education and occupational skills are more representative of blacks-in-general to see whether the former have distinctive personality characteristics compatible with marginality. (Author/RK)

A STUDY OF PERSONALITY TRAITS INCLUDED (1) A SURVEY OF THE CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES OF PERSONALITY STUDIES FROM PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND (2) DETAILS OF A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBJECTS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND INDIA. THE SURVEY OF CROSS-CULTURAL PERSONALITY RESEARCH INCLUDED ANALYSES OF RSULTS FROM (1) THE…

This article describes research conducted to determine the influence of parental personality characteristics on the delinquent behavior of adolescent boys. Two groups of parents (N=18 couples, each group) were administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Experimental couples' sons had been recognized by the juvenile courts as…

Control over self, lifestyle, and environment is a major factor in how one ages. To investigate how age acts as an environmental force in affecting perceptions of control, 45 adults, aged 60-80, from western Kansas were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), the Tiffany Experienced Control Scales (ECS), the Minnesota…