Differences in personality inventory scores between freshmen at a junior college and university compared to ten years ago were generally toward a less psychologically mature direction. (Author/KM)

Discriminant analysis was separately employed for men and women in order to determine the independent personality dimensions that discriminate among the four Clark-Trow student types. Two significant discriminant functions placed the male vocational, nonconformist, academic, and collegiate types in positions that are essentially consistent with…

Describes a study of the factors which induce pre-engineering students to work below their potential in liberal arts courses. The evidence seems to indicate that different curricular areas do attract people with different personalities and from different socio-eocnomic backgrounds. (TS)

AN EFFORT WAS MADE TO MEASURE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE OBSERVED DIFFERENCES IN THE PERSONALITY STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS IN INDIA MIGHT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN A SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SET DERIVED FROM THE EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE (EPPS). EIGHT HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED ON 243…

Personality and demographic data from two groups of industrial arts teachers, American Industrial Arts Association teacher-of-the-year recipients and a randomly selected group, were statistically analyzed and compared. The results show many differences; the author recommends further personality profile research for industrial arts teachers. (MF)

PHYSICAL AND PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS WERE EXAMINED IN RELATION TO CLOTHING CHOICES IN AN EFFORT TO MORE FULLY UNDERSTAND THE REASONS BEHIND THE PERSONAL BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS OF DELINQUENT GIRLS. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF 22 DELINQUENT GIRLS AND A CONTROL GROUP OF THE SAME NUMBER OF NONDELINQUENTS (MATCHED TO AGE, IQ, AND…

A study was designed to investigate the ways in which graduate students respond to the fact that their competence must be repeatedly valued by means of grades, written and oral examinations, letters of recommendations, dissertation approvals, and various less official procedures. Some students, the gamesmen, have developed strategies for evading…

Founded on a review of literature, this study compares the personality characteristics of graduate students entering the field of special education (SP) and those entering elementary education (EE). Within the field of special education, a comparison was also made between graduate students specializing in emotional disturbance (ED) and those…

The Gough Adjective Check List was used to assess the self-reported personalities of women graduate studio art students and to compare the resulting group profile to personality profiles of women students in two other fields: medicine and psychology. (SJL)

The development and relationship of two dimensions of personality, self esteem and locus of control, were examined in a study of 763 fourth, eighth, and twelfth grade Indian and white children selected from 22 Oklahoma public schools. The students were given the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory and Nowicky-Strickland Locus of Control Scale during…

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the vocational interests and personality patterns of today's academic librarians are more like the traditional stereotype (i.e., that librarians are conventional, conservative, rigid types) or are beginning to change due to the changing nature of the profession and its work environment. To…

Thirty Black activists and thirty Black non-activists were randomly selected from a list of 100 students identified as activists and 100 students identified as non-activists. Twenty-five from each group were male, and five were female; 32 freshmen and 28 sophomores were included in the sample. All subjects were administered the Edwards Personal…

Four hundred and forty-six poor black urban and rural adolescents ages 15-18 enrolled in a summer poverty-work program are administered Gough's Adjective Checklist (ACL) and Holland's Vocatonal Preference Inventory (VPI) to determine their personality profile, to ascertain differences between this gorup and blacks attending colleges, and to study…