Evaluated personalized feedback and financial incentives as adjuncts to self-help materials for smoking cessation among subjects (n=1,217) randomized to 4 treatment groups and followed up at 3 and 12 months. Financial incentive increased self-help material use, did not increase cessation rates, and was associated with higher relapse rates.…

The authors predicted a low linear relationship between internality and self actualization, one conception of ideal personal adjustment. The results supported the hypothesized relationship more strongly for females than for males. The measurement instrument used was the Internal External Control of Reinforcement scale and the Personal Orientation…

The present results for experienced students show no relationship between locus of control and predictive accuracy. The data indicate that accuracy is improved by previous experience with college work. (Author)

This study investigates the hypotheses that (a) the creation of new experience in cognitive functioning involves increased differentiation and integration of meaning and (b) self-actualization involves the tendency to engage in a mode of cognitive processing that creates new experience. (Author)

It was concluded that, at best, self-presentation effects are weak and unobserved by the current investigators (Beta error), or at worst the result of extraneous sources of variation. (Author)

Thirty items designed to measure behavior in the six areas described by Jahoda as comprising positive mental health were administered. The data contraindicate the hypothesis that positive mental health is a unitary factor. (Author)

The results of this study indicate that a rather strong inverse relationship exists between repression-sensitization and Personality Orientation Inventory scale scores. The evidence suggests that repressors may be better adjusted than sensitizers. (Author)

In longitudinal study of female college graduates, self-definition, measured by freshman-year Thematic Apperception Tests, predicted problem-solving and coping behavior 14 years later. Women who viewed their problems in ways that facilitated effective coping scored higher in self-definition. Women who took instrumental actions to solve their…

Comparisons between volunteer telephone counselors and nonvolunteer college students were made on several psychological tests: the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, the Personal Orientation Inventory, and the Self-Disclosure Questionnaire. In their self-concepts, the groups differed only in moral-ethical self perceptions. The counselors' scores…

The Ss who were told that the interpretation was derived for them from their psychological tests rated the interpretation as more descriptive of their personalities than Ss told that the interpretation was generally true of people. (Author)

The hypoethsis that Ss in two incompatible affection groups would gain significantly more on dimensions of self-actualization than Ss in two compatible affection groups was supported. (Author)

Discusses the effectiveness in four case studies of group instruction (pretraining) in the methods and principles of self-modification as an economical and beneficial offering for individuals suffering emotional as well as overt behavioral problems. (Author/PC)

Shows that the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) can be rated reliably either from therapy sessions or from a special pretreatment interview. Pretreatment CCRTs resembled CCRTs extracted from early sessions of brief dynamic psychotherapy, suggesting that therapist influences in early treatment did not significantly alter patient CCRTs.…