The Self Disclosure Inventory for Adolescents, administered to 271 ninth grade students, indicates lack of direct relationship between self disclosure and personal adjustment. Suggestion offered that adolescent counseling be structured so individuals are not pressured to become too open. (CJ)

Determines effectiveness of Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and Otis Self-Administering Tests of Mental Ability as screening techniques in predicting leadership in a particular company. (EK)

Paper contains research from author's doctoral thesis. (JM)

This article is based on Dr. Key's dissertation, "A Theoretical Framework for an Occupational Orientation Program," which was completed at North Carolina State University in 1969. Dr. Key is Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. (Editor)

Examines whether relationships can be demonstrated between specific infantile comfort habits and later personality development. Results suggest that children with a persistent oral habit at age 4 may later (at age 11 and 16) be less emotionally "well-adjusted" and more difficult for their parents to influence and control. (MP)

Tested the hypothesis that internals will achieve more than externals in situations where competition is preeminent but not where cooperation is requried. Children (N=300) were divided into internals and externals, placed in situations varying in competition and cooperation, and readministered digit-symbol task. The general hypothesis was…

Research in existentialism and ontology has given rise to several psychometric instruments. Used both exploratory and confirmatory principal-factor analyses to study relationships among 16 existential scales. Exploratory factor analysis provided some support of the theory that the avoidance of existential confrontation is a central function of…

Rated the audio portions of videotaped segments of 32 dyadic interviews between A-type and B-type undergraduate males for accurate empathy using Truax's AE-Scale. Results indicated B-types elicited higher levels of empathy when they interacted with other B-types, while any dyad that contained an A-type resulted in less empathy. (JAC)

Presents a factor analysis of personality, intellectual, demographic and behavioral variables obtained from 200 incarcerated delinquents. Results described five personality groupings: White and older adolescent offenders with good verbal skills, the older adolescent offender, the institutional disrupter, and the anxious, verbal offender rated as…

Tested two hypotheses derived from Korman's consistency model of work behavior using a sample of administrators (N=112). As predicted, those with high self-esteem experienced significantly greater need gratification. Self-esteem also significantly and positively moderated the relationship between need gratification and work satisfaction.…

Senior pharmacy students' level of risk-taking as a personality trait was compared with their performance in medication history interviews in an ambulatory medicine clinic. Effective and efficient interviewers were significantly higher in risk-taking propensity than others. (MSE)