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Prigatano, George P.; Parsons, Oscar A. – Journal of Counsulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
The effects of age and education on Halstead test performance were examined in this cross-validation of the Vega and Parsons study. Differences between correlation in psychiatric patients and medical-surgical control subjects are discussed, as is the importance of age, and differences in reference groups when making clinical inferences about brain…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Control Groups, Diagnostic Tests, Mental Disorders
Stewart, David W. – 1975
The Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) was examined within a multimethod-multitrait framework over a three-year time period. Reliability and intercorrelation matrices are given based on 22 to 37 subjects that were tested and retested over the three-year interval. The TSCS was found to be reliable and to bear consistent and systematic…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Personality Theories
Peer reviewedLawrence, Jeanette A. – Journal of Moral Education, 1980
Fourteen moral judgment intervention studies are reviewed and evaluated to address two questions: "Is it possible to stimulate moral judgment development in an educational setting?" and "Does the Defining Issues Test index such moral judgment changes?" These studies affirm the second question. Half of them produced significant…
Descriptors: Adults, Curriculum Evaluation, Developmental Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Brandt, David A.; Kline, Kay H. – 1977
The well-known study on fear of success (FOS) by Horner (1968) asserted that women low in FOS do better on achievement-oriented tasks under competitive conditions, while women high in the motive do better when the situation is non-competitive. This paper critically reviews the methodology of this study and concludes that the statistical test…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Employed Women, Fear of Success, Females
