In a response to comments by P. T. Costa, Jr., and R. R. McCrae on the current authors' original article, the authors show that Costa and McCrae's writings on personality suggest a belief in immutability of personality traits. The authors agree with Costa and McCrae that new personality trait models that provide an accurate lower order structure…

A new method of assessing college students that yields a full, multidimensional profile of the student's total personality is presented in the 12 chapters of this book. Chapter 1 provides theoretical formulations based on empirical data. In Chapter 2, three concepts that are basic to the central construct are described. The central construct is…