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Emmerich, Walter – Child Development, 1974
Fourth through eleventh grade students evaluated single personality trait descriptions of hypothetical persons of their own sex. Results are discussed in terms of person-perception and social desirability theories of personality. (ST)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Individual Characteristics

Lindauer, Martin S.; Reukauf, Lynn C. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences, Personality Development

Elton, Charles F. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Decision Making, Environmental Influences
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
Conrad, Rowan W. – 1974
Tracing problems observed among the Mountain-Plains student population, a trend of apparently improper or arrested personality development emerges. Observations indicate that a majority of the student population does not possess normally developed trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, sense of identity, or ability to develop intimate…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Disadvantaged, Individual Characteristics, Personality Assessment
Millimet, C. Raymond; Brien, Monica – 1975
Consistent with Anderson's weighted averaging model, it was predicted that 19 subjects who were defined by a lack of differentiation among their personal constructs would experience considerable inconsistency in the factorial combination of five personality trait dimensions selected from each subject's REP test. Such inconsistency was expected to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics
Sheldon-Keller, Adrienne; West, Malcolm – 1995
This paper synthesizes a variety of perspectives, with an emphasis on attachment theory, on the agency/communion polarity as first defined by David Bakan (1966). The question researchers sought to answer was whether or not agency/communion is best approached as a polarity--opposite and opposing forces, forces in the personality which have often…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Development, Individual Characteristics, Individual Development
Joure, Sylvia A.; And Others – 1975
Forty-seven male chemical industry foremen in the New Orleans, Louisiana area were given a battery of tests to determine the effects of dogmatism on supervisor-subordinate relationships. The battery of tests administered included form E of the Rokeach's dogmatism scale, the Cattell Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, and six other tests…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Dogmatism, Individual Characteristics, Industrial Personnel

Edwards, J.B. – Educational Research, 1965
Imprecise concepts and vagueness in the field of moral development of children should be counterbalanced by future research by educationalists and psychologists. From a review of the scanty research available in moral development it can be concluded that (1) moral development is more complex than heretofore conceived; (2) individual differences in…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Children, Development, Individual Characteristics
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1956
The conference theme was Testing--Then and Now, based upon the assumption that psychometrists should review their origins and look forward to their future. In the area of intelligence testing, Nancy Bayley discussed the research that re-assessed previous concepts of the nature of intellectual growth and decline. Thelma Thurstone discussed new…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Development
Jakobovits, Leon A. – 1972
Underlying this essay on psycholinguistic theory is the belief that language teachers often suffer from neurotic symptoms of confusion, anxiety, and uncertainty in connection with their work. The author discusses his "BALT" theory (battered language teachers). Philosophically-oriented remarks are directed toward teachers wishing to redirect their…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories