In this article, we analyse the ways school headteachers/principals (HT/Ps) at different stages of adult ego development (AED) make sense of and respond to the organisational complexity of their schools. The AED stage of 20 HT/Ps in England was assessed using the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. HT/Ps in the self-aware,…

Study evidence does not support familiar assumptions of deficiencies in intelligence, personality and value development, resulting because young children were separated from their natural mothers and given many years of institutional care. This paper was presented at the 45th annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Chicago,…

The Project on Student Development in Small Colleges is a 5-year research and action program which has studied institutional characteristics, student characteristics, attrition, and student development in 13 small colleges across the country. The results of this study on personality development indicated that personality development during college…

Part I of this report describes results of studies concerning "net change" of personality from analyses pooling students from all the 13 colleges participating in the Project on Student Development and from analyses pooling all students retested within each college. The findings indicated that: (1) changes occurred in most of the areas measured by…

THIS WAS A LONGITUDINAL STUDY WHICH FOCUSED ON THE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 17 AND 22. IN THE FALL OF 1961, SELECTED STANFORD AND BERKELEY FRESHMEN WERE ADMINISTERED SIX SCALES FROM THE OMNIBUS PERSONALITY INVENTORY, THE AUTHORITARIAN AND ETHNOCENTRISM SCALES, AND AN EXPERIMENTAL 54-ITEM DRINKING ATTITUDES…

Maintains that universities have a responsibility to engender "..some sense of minimum universal values" in their students and to influence the adoption and promotion of these values in their lives. Considers ways that a university can accomplish this goal through a code of ethics, innovative management, and the impact of senior teams.…

This book reports the experiential deprivation and intellectual retardation of children from the Creche, a Lebanese social agency devoted to the care of foundlings from birth to 6 years. Begun in 1955, this study explored the role of environment, specifically, the effects of adoption, on IQ. Results showed that the mean IQ for both boys and girls…