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Edens, John F. – Psychological Assessment, 2009
Interest in conceptualizing the interpersonal style of individuals who engage in serious antisocial behavior has increased in recent years. This study examines the personality, psychopathological, and behavioral correlates of interpersonal dominance and warmth, as operationalized via scales of the Personality Assessment Inventory (L. Morey, 2007),…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Assessment, Antisocial Behavior, Correctional Institutions
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Pena, Liana M.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1996
The usefulness of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) was examined for 162 delinquent boys in a state training school who were compared with 805 nondelinquent male adolescents and the original MMPI sample of 7,783 male adolescents. The most useful scales are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Delinquency, Males
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Gallucci, Nicholas T. – Assessment, 1997
The correlates of 16 scales for the identification of substance abuse developed for the adolescent form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory were studied with 180 adolescents receiving treatment for substance abuse. As expected, previously validated scales were reliably and positively correlated with therapists' ratings of behavioral…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Correlation, Identification
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Gallucci, Nicholas T. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
The contributions of specific scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) to the classification of 180 adolescent substance abusers into groups characterized by aspects of behavioral control were studied. Seven scales made significant contributions to the classification of substance abusers into three groups, with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Classification, Construct Validity
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Bond, Norman D.; Phillips, Beeman N. – Journal of School Psychology, 1971
Among the results were that boys only showed negative" types of traits occurring with low and high levels of altruism, and that positive" types of traits occurred with in-between levels of altruism. Also, both rational-altruistic and conscientious-altruistic types of behavior were presented in the data obtained. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Children, Individual Characteristics
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Simonds, John F.; Simonds, M. Patricia – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Mothers of 182 nursery school children completed the Behavior Style Questionnaire (BSQ) and the Child Personality Scale (CPS). Intercorrelational analyses showed many significantly correlated items. Scores of the five CPS factors clearly distinguished between subjects in easy and difficult BSQ clusters. Found boys significantly more introverted…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Parent Attitudes, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures
Infante, Dominic A. – 1986
Interpersonal communication can be viewed in terms of an aggressive-nonaggressive continuum. Past research has often focused on nonaggressive forms of interpersonal communication, such as understanding how people get to know one another, how trust and intimacy develop, and the role of self-disclosure in relationship development. However,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Assertiveness, Behavior Patterns
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Krug, Samuel E.; Laughlin, James E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Intercorrelations among primary personality traits of the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire were factor analyzed with 925 normal adults and 950 clinical cases. When separate analyses were carried out for men and women, 10 second-order factors were clearly replicated across the two data sets. (Author)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
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Simonds, John F.; Simonds, M. Patricia – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Mothers of children attending nursery schools completed the Behavior Style Questionnaire (BSQ) from which scores for nine temperament categories were derived. Found membership in groups based on factor scores independent of sex, socioeconomic class, age but not ordinal birth position. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Birth Order, Cluster Grouping, Emotional Adjustment
Haase, Richard F. – 1971
Thirty-six subjects were administered the 16PF and participated in a brief, unstructured interview. Paralinguistic behavior (fluency, duration and speech rate) were scored from tapes of the interviews and correlated to personality characteristics. Four significant relationships emerged revealing that fluency is related to adventurousness; duration…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Language Patterns
Lawrence, Gordon D. – 1993
This book presents one method for identifying mind-sets, learning styles, and motivation patterns, and using the patterns in planning instruction and other helping processes, with the objective of helping people find and use their strengths to ameliorate weaknesses. The approach presented is based on Carl Jung's ideas about psychological types, as…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Extraversion Introversion
Thomas, Antoinette D.; Dudek, Stephanie Z. – 1981
Interactions between husbands and wives are often assessed in terms of power distribution, based on decision-making outcomes. To examine the association of the dominance of "spouse" over "parents" and "peers" orientation with perceived behavioral and affective mutuality in the couple's financial management, couples…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Decision Making, Family Relationship