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ALLEN, ROBERT M. – 1965
DESIGNED TO GIVE THE READER SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES OF INTEGRATING PERSONALITY VARIABLES, THEORY, AND TESTING, THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE DUAL ORIENTATION OF PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE AND AS AN APPLIED SKILL. EXAMPLES OF BOTH NOMOTHETIC AND IDIOGRAPHIC THEORIES OF PERSONALITY ARE CONSIDERED. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND DEBATE…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Motivation, Perception, Personality Assessment
Sloan, Tod S.; Brown, Donald R. – 1978
Investigated was the utility of self-descriptions as tools for personality assessment. It was hoped that self-descriptions would fall into a reasonably tight typology and that these types would be related to important behavioral and attitudinal measures. College students (N=94) participated in structured interviews, and a short form of the Omnibus…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Theories, Classification, Higher Education