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Kim, Sooyeon; Brody, Gene H.; Murry, Velma McBride – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2003
Applied confirmatory factor analysis in a test of alternative factor models and measurement invariance across gender groups, using data from the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire focusing on shyness, high-intensity pleasure, activity level, attention, irritability, and fear. Found that factor models based on composite indicators showed…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Factor Structure, Models, Personality
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Steinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Data for this study of 108 young adults from the New York Longitudinal Study include measures of temperament derived from two sources: interviews conducted with subjects' mothers when the children were 3 and 4 years of age and measures of Type A behavior derived from interviews with the subjects during young adulthood. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Interviews, Personality Development, Personality Studies
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Whitesel, Lita S. – Studies in Art Education, 1984
Female art students, rather than male art students, claimed tendencies to seek change for the sake of pleasure and to be competitive and aggressive. No differences in personality characteristics were found between males and females studying studio arts and those studying English and psychology. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Art Education, College Students, English, Females
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McCrae, Robert R.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Administered translations of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory to adults in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, and South Korea. Found declines in neuroticism, extraversion and openness, and increases in agreeableness and conscientiousness age for both men and women. Results support hypothesis that age differences reflect universal maturational…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
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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
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Strack, Stephen – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1994
Seventy-five male and 77 female college students completed the Personality Adjective Check List and Self-Directed Search. Results show that Millon's personality styles and Holland's occupational types are reliably linked, seeming closest in the concept of social dominance-submission and emotionality-restraint and most divergent in the view of…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Personality Theories, Personality Traits
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Hamilton, Sandra; And Others – Sex Roles, 1986
Sixty-five clinical psycholgists independently diagnosed 18 written case histories on the basis of 110 DSM-III categories. Females were rated significantly more histrionic than males exhibiting identical histrionic symptoms, but males were not rated as more antisocial than females. The findings suggest that vague diagnostic descriptions promote…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Psychologists
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Valliant, Paul M.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
Seventy-one competitive, noncompetitive and nonathletes were compared on Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor and Rotter's locus of control questionnaires. Athletes appeared more dominant and less imaginative than nonathletes. Noncompetitive athletes were also less self-sufficient than the others, and females were generally more venturesome than…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Students, Competition, Higher Education
Lifton, Peter D. – 1982
Although psychologists often disagree over the definition, underlying process, and methodology associated with the study of moral development, they agree that differences disappear among individuals possessing a similar type of reasoning. To study individual personality differences among people identified as moral by the theories of Kohlberg,…
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluation Methods, Family Environment, Higher Education
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Pulkkinen, Lea; Ronka, Anna – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Two components of life orientation emerged in study of 145 men and 142 women at age 26: Positive Orientation (PO), which included self-percepts of personal control over development; and Motivated Questioning (MQ), which consisted of identity exploration and dissatisfaction with present achievements. In comparison with MQ, PO was more strongly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
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Killon, Janice – Roeper Review, 1983
Analysis of the High School Personality Questionnaire and measures of socioeconomic status (SES) for 63 intellectually gifted secondary and 60 control students revealed that giftedness was not identified as the reason for differences in personality characteristics. Instead, sex appeared to be the important factor in considering student actions.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Personality, Personality Traits, Secondary Education
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Walters, Glenn D.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Attempted to predict therapeutic persistence with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Results revealed only the discriminant function for males achieved a classification accuracy (60 percent) greater than chance expectations; male persisters tended to be less defensive while experiencing greater distress; and female persisters…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, Patients, Persistence, Personality Measures
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Lewis, Barbara E.; Schmidt, Charles P. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1991
Presents findings of research concerning the relationship between listener response to music and personality variables. Reports that correlations were found among undergraduate music appreciation students between the Music Listener Response Scale and sensing intuition for the entire group and between judgment perception and the scale among…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Listening, Music Education, Personality Studies
Barron, William L.; And Others – 1981
Although predictive accuracy (cognitive empathy) and emotional empathy may be aspects of the same general ability, few empirical studies have examined the relationships between these dimensions. The relationship between cognitive empathy and emotional empathy was investigated by correlating the Mehrabian and Epstein Emotional Empathy Scale and its…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Empathy, Locus of Control, Personality Measures
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Heilbrun, Alfred B., Jr.; Bailey, Becky A. – Sex Roles, 1986
Examination of self-descriptions of 1,623 undergraduates (collectedd in 1958-64, 1970-74, and 1977-82) failed to support the prevailing assumption that masculinity and femininity develop independently. Rather, a positive relation was found between the presence of masculine and feminine traits within the same individual even when gender and state…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Femininity, Feminism, Masculinity
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