This study examined the impact and predictive ability of parental personality and perceived stress on behavior problems of their deaf child. One hundred and fourteen parents with a deaf child completed measures of personality, parenting stress, and child behavioral functioning. Higher parental neuroticism, which reflects a susceptibility to…

There are many anecdotal reports of a link between psychopathology and creativity. The strongest links have been purported between creativity psychosis, schizotypy, and personality. The aim of this study was to investigate the link between schizotypy and imagery-based measures of creativity; Barron's (1988) Symbolic Equivalence Test and Finke's…

Study categorizing 72 subjects as good or poor judges on basis of discrepancies between predicted ratings on each of six California Psychological Inventory scales, and ratings from actual test scores indicate that good juges are well adjusted, tolerant, and self confident. (Author/CJ)

This study examined the usefulness of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire in differentiating characteristics of counselors who were rated effective and ineffective. (Author)

The relations between general and specific trait anxiety tests and fear measures in three actual situations were investigated. The results indicate that the specific tests were clearly superior to the general ones in predicting fear of snakes but only slightly superior in predicting fear of heights and darkness. (Author)

This report is of two studies. One is on developing a refined combination of predictors including ability, likability," and motivation"; the other is aimed at validating this multiple regression equation against actual school achievement. (Author)

The relationships between achievement measures and aptitude, sex, and personality traits were explored in a sample of 226 eighth grade students in an upper middle class suburban school. Among other results, sex did not prove to be a significant predictor of achievement. (Author/JKS)

This study was designed to assess the relative contributions of selected personality characteristics, school achievement, intelligence, sex, and ethnic background to self-concept in a fourth-grade sample. Personality variables were found to be more predictive than achievement ability or demographic factors. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine which personality traits as measured by the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) are predictive of academic achievement in urban college freshmen of the Federal City College. The measures of achievement were grade point average (GPA) and the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program (CGPP) test…

In two college counseling client samples, 29 two-need Edwards Personal Preference Scale (EPPS) patterns were found to occur frequently, 13 involving high achievement. The prediction of college grades in these two samples was studied utilizing these EPPS patterns, a set of traditional aptitude/achievement measures, and patterns combined with…

An analysis of a dictionary definition of "aptitude" could clear up several prevalent misunderstandings of the concept. Nothing inherent in the concept assumes that aptitudes are hereditary; aptitude is the result of the interaction of heredity and environment. "Apritude" has a broad definition; it includes intelligence, achievement, personality,…

In this paper an effort is made to seek within John W. Atkinson's own thinking on achievement motivation a more parsimonious explanation of the assumed curvilinearity between motive strength and performance. (Author/RK)