Written responses to student writing assignments often can take the form of being directives which seem to try to control the student, and student response to such directive comments appears ambivalent. A logical question concerning such modes of response is to ask how a teacher's comments are influenced by his or her personality type. A study was…

A study involving 9 male and 109 female graduate students in educational psychology, who are or have been teachers, was conducted to investigate the relationship between teacher burnout and personality type, self-perceptions, and critical thinking ability. Subjects included 23 blacks and 95 whites, and the mean age of the sample population was…