The results of this study which investigated several personality attributes of 140 vocational rehabilitation clients in relation to their locus of control, showed that internals and externals showed significant mean differences on their ability to work with others, cooperation, self reliance, work tolerance, and other factors. (Author)

Examines the relationship between resistence to interference and personality disturbance. Concludes that resistance to interference can be used as a diagnostic dimension in assessing the likelihood of personality disturbance. (HMV)

A measure of sex guilt was related to the report of previous sexual experiences, feelings following participation, or reasons for nonparticipation, and premarital and postmarital sexual standards. Sex guilt was negatively correlated with the level of intimacy of premarital sexual experiences, and guilty Ss has less permissive premarital standards.…

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)

The researchers devised a system for classifying earliest school recollections (ESRs). To determine the validity of this system, judges classified 100 third- and fourth-grade public school students according to their earliest school recollections. A statistically significant agreement was found between judges' and teachers' classifications of…

This study investigated systematic relationships among teacher personality types (Ambitious, Conscientious, and Indulgent), preservice educational beliefs, and intern classroom practices. The investigation traced the theoretical and empirical linkage from personality structure though educational ideology and finally to perceptions of teacher…