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Evaluation of the California Psychological Inventory as an Effective Admission Standard for PsyD Programs
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Kobylinski, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A current admission criterion of a PsyD program was examined for effective profiling of personality characteristics of professional clinical psychology students. The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) was used as the personality assessment of all applicants to the PsyD program. The CPI quadrant score of "Alpha" with a CPI score of…
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Admission Criteria, Profiles, Clinical Psychology
Use of Estimated CPI Factor Scores to Formulate Personality Types
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Burger, Gary K. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1975
The purpose of this research was to study the feasibility of estimating the major CPI factors directly from CPI scale scores and to determine whether such estimates of factor scores could be used to formulate personality types. (Author)
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Personality Assessment, Psychological Studies, Research Methodology
Sex Differences and Spatial Ability Factors in Witkin's "Differentiation" Construct
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McGilligan, Robert P.; Barclay, Allan G. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1974
In order to examine two of the criticisms of Witkin's differentiation construct, RFT, CPI and PMA Spatial Relations scores on 40 ninth-grade boys and girls were compared. (Author)
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Studies, Research Methodology, Sex Differences
Validation of the CPI Femininity Sclae in Japan
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Nishiyama, Toshihiko – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1975
An investigation of the cross-cultural validity of the femininity (Fe) scale in samples of 300 male and 300 female Japanese university students found that 30 of the 38 items differentiated in the same direction as in the original U.S. studies and also that the total score on the scale gave good separation between the Japanese males and females.…
Descriptors: College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Personality Measures, Psychological Patterns
Effects of Meditation on Personality and Values
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De Grace, Gaston – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1976
Evaluates the effects of Zen meditation on personality and values, casts serious doubts on certain studies that report astonishingly positive results after only a few weeks of meditation, and offers some suggestions to improve research methodology with regard to a most important contemporary phenomenon. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Correlation, Data Analysis, Measurement Instruments, Psychological Characteristics
Recalled Parental Behavior and Objective Personality Measures: A Canonical Analysis
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Burger, Gary K.; And Others – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1975
Two groups of college students' accounts of recalled parent's child rearing patterns were examined and compared in this study by means of two objective personality measures. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Children, College Students
Improving Reliability and Validity of "Achievement via Conformance" Through Computer Applications.
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Riggs, Donald E. – 1971
This paper describes an experiment conducted in order to improve the reliability and validity of the Achievement via Conformance (AC) scale of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI). The primary goal of AC is to identify those factors of interest and motivation which facilitate achievement in any setting where conformance is positive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conformity, Evaluation Methods, Grade Point Average
The Vicissitudes of Sex-Role Assessment.
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Saarni, Carolyn I.; And Others – 1973
A study of the psychological differences between maleness and femaleness is presented. The sample studied consisted of four groups: (1) 24 pre-service nursing trainees, all female; (2) 57 introductory psychology students, 31 females and 26 males; (3) 19 caucasian non-college graduate adults, 11 females and 8 males; and (4) 27 radical feminists.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Identification (Psychology), Measurement Instruments, Psychological Studies