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Chang-Ross, Aurora – Multicultural Perspectives, 2010
In this article, I reflect on my personal experiences of racial queerness. In an effort to speak my secrets, I explore my identity production as a Multiracial person by critically examining my positionality throughout various key stages in my life. I present Multiracial microaggressions--those accumulated moments that underscore my racial…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, Reflection, Racial Attitudes, Racial Identification
Fitch, Trey; Marshall, Jennifer – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study was to apply psychobiography to the lives of Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. Psychobiography can be applied as a method of teaching personality theory and it can also be used as a research method. Most political personas are crafted through 20 second sound bites from the radio, Internet, and television. However, a…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Theories, Current Events, Research Methodology
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Schwartz, Seth J. – Journal of Adolescence, 2006
The present study was conducted to ascertain the extent to which three alternative perspectives on identity development (self-construction, eudaimonistic self-discovery, and agentic personality) relate to various indices of identity consolidation drawn from Erikson, identity status, and identity capital. A total of 183 participants (21% males; 78%…
Descriptors: Personality Development, Males, Ethnic Groups, Personality Assessment
Meredith, Sydney J. – 1985
An ERIC digest provides general information to help educators, students, and others evaluate their own capacities for leadership. Material is divided into six substantive sections. "What is leadership?" provides definitions of the concept, discusses differences between leadership and management and considers requisites for effective…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Personality Assessment
ATHEY, IRENE J.; HOLMES, JACK A. – 1967
ERIKSON'S THEORY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HEALTHY PERSONALITY IS INTEGRATED WITH HOLMES' THEORY OF READING IN ORDER TO DERIVE A TESTABLE HYPOTHESIS REGARDING THE CONTRIBUTION OF SPECIFIED PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS TO READING SUCCESS AND TO VALIDATE THE FINDINGS. THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED IN THE FOLLOWING THREE PHASES--THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SCALES…
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Personality Development, Personality Studies, Reading Achievement
Athey, Irene J.; Holmes, Jack A. – 1967
Erikson's theory on the development of a healthy personality is integrated with Holmes' Theory of Reading in order to derive a testable hypothesis regarding the contribution of specified personality characteristics to reading success and to validate the findings. The study was conducted in the following three phases--the construction of new scales…
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Personality Development, Personality Studies, Reading Achievement
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Mayer, John D. – American Psychologist, 2005
Personality psychology studies how psychological systems work together. Consequently, the field can act as a unifying resource for the broader discipline of psychology. Yet personality's current fieldwide organization promotes a fragmented view of the person, seen through such competing theories as the psychodynamic, trait, and humanistic. There…
Descriptors: Personality, Psychology, Personality Development, Psychotherapy
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Jay, Jeffrey; Birney, Robert C. – American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1973
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing, Personality Assessment
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
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Huff, Vaughn E. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1978
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity
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Davison, Mark L. – Psychometrika, 1977
A model is presented which allows for the prediction of relationships among stimuli when stimulus responses are linearly related to squared distances between stimulus scale values and person scores along a latent continuum. Applications to developmental and attitudinal data are discussed. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Mathematical Models, Measurement
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Munro, Gordon; Adams, Gerald R. – Developmental Psychology, 1977
College students and working youth between the ages of 18 and 21 were approached in public places and asked to volunteer for an interview. A total of 57 participants responded to a semistructured Ego Identity Status Interview and an Ego Identity Incomplete Sentence Blank. (JMB)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Laborers, Personality Assessment
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Gilmore, John V. – Journal of Education, 1971
Presents a thorough study of the make-up and background of the Productive Personality-the high achiever, the creative individual, the successful leader. (AN)
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, High Achievement, Personality Assessment, Personality Development
Rickman, David L. – 1987
Personality is defined as the dynamic organization, within an individual, of the systems that determine his or her characteristic behavior or thought. The study of personality involves many aspects of human behavior. Four approaches used to study personality are presented in this document: (1) Social Learning theory; (2) Trait theory; (3)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Literature Reviews, Personality, Personality Assessment
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Daher, Douglas – Adolescence, 1981
A sense of inferiority in adolescent males can result from a split senex-puer archetype, a Jungian construct focused on the individual's identification with and/or repression of psychic age and youth. Adolescents experience healing of the split senex-puer archetype to the degrees to which they involve themselves in the eros and power of their life…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Friendship, Identification (Psychology), Males
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