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Arvanitis, Alexios; Kalliris, Konstantinos – Journal of Moral Education, 2020
If acting morally can be viewed as acting consistently with a moral principle or rule, then being a person with moral integrity can be viewed as consistently applying moral principles or rules across different types of situations. We advance a view of moral integrity that incorporates three distinct, but interrelated, types of moral consistency:…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Self Determination, Integrity, Behavior Standards
Rabbani, Abed G.; Yao, Zheying; Wang, Christina; Grable, John E. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2021
Financial risk tolerance is an important personal characteristic that is widely used by financial professionals to guide the development and presentation of client-centered recommendations. As more baby boomers enter retirement, research on how these individuals perceive their willingness to take financial risks has gained importance, particularly…
Descriptors: Risk, Decision Making, Money Management, Financial Services

Bond, Norman D.; Phillips, Beeman N. – Journal of School Psychology, 1971
Among the results were that boys only showed negative" types of traits occurring with low and high levels of altruism, and that positive" types of traits occurred with in-between levels of altruism. Also, both rational-altruistic and conscientious-altruistic types of behavior were presented in the data obtained. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Children, Individual Characteristics

Thorne, Gaylord L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
The Sensation Seeking Scale was given to felons, juvenile delinquents, and adult mentally ill. Among the findings were: age was negatively correlated for both sexes; mentally ill females were significantly different from felons and from juvenile delinquents; and the personality picture corresponded well with expectations from studies with normals.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Delinquency, Individual Characteristics, Personality

Pearson, Pamela H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
The results of this study provided additional support for the fruitfulness of conceptualizing four separate rational forms of novelty experiencing, as well as additional construct validation for each of the four measures. Overall the differentiation of the forms among themselves and with the external variables was reasonably good. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Measurement Instruments, Personality
Horton, Margaret; Kriauciunas, Romualdas – J Counseling Psychol, 1970
Thirty-two terminators and 28 continuers in personal counseling were compared on three measures derived from precounseling Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) data. It was concluded that poor adolescent prospects for counseling are those characterized by marked rebellion toward authority. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness

Kahn, Malcolm; Schill, Thomas – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Personality
Landsman, Ted – 1968
The author believes that an aspect of human behavior being glossed over in psychological studies is the superb, beautiful person. He defines this individual as being: (1) free of abnormalities, (2) basically normal, well balanced, and mentally healthy, and (3) possessed of a unique group of characteristics which establish his being out of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Emotional Development, Emotional Experience

Krug, Samuel E.; Laughlin, James E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Intercorrelations among primary personality traits of the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire were factor analyzed with 925 normal adults and 950 clinical cases. When separate analyses were carried out for men and women, 10 second-order factors were clearly replicated across the two data sets. (Author)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure

Trott, D. Merilee; Morf, Martin E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1972
The present results confirm the contention that the scales of a new personality inventory, the Differential Personality, exhibit to a satisfactory degree that most desirable of scale properties: factorial simplicity or homogeneity. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Personality

Mirels, Herbert L.; Garrett, James B. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
The work described in this paper views the Protestant Ethic as a dispositional variable and attempts to characterize its psychological meaning in terms of its relationship with other personality variables and with occupational interests. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Ethics, Individual Characteristics, Moral Values
Haase, Richard F. – 1971
Thirty-six subjects were administered the 16PF and participated in a brief, unstructured interview. Paralinguistic behavior (fluency, duration and speech rate) were scored from tapes of the interviews and correlated to personality characteristics. Four significant relationships emerged revealing that fluency is related to adventurousness; duration…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Language Patterns

Davis, Kenneth R.; Sines, Jacob O. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
The MMPI profile pattern, described here, entailed a behavior pattern that includes hostile-aggressive acting out. The frequency of this profile pattern and the social and psychological importance of the behavior pattern associated with it suggest that clinical investigators can profitably study this group of men. (Author)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Emotional Disturbances, Individual Characteristics

Brown, Larry T.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
The purpose of the present study, is to determine to what extent Change Seeker Index scores correlate with the reported incidence of specific behaviors judged by the authors to rank high in stimulation-seeking characteristics. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Drug Abuse, Individual Characteristics

Jones, Mary Cover – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
Members of a longitudinal study were classified on the basis of their drinking behavior. The core of traits which described the cohorts of each category of women drinkers were discernible to raters in the early adolescent period. Problem drinkers and abstainers had in common certain traits which suggested inadequate coping devices. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns, Females