This study was designed to determine whether personality need factors are related to college student satisfaction. Two-hundred twenty-six students in a small, church related college completed instruments designed to measure personality need factors and college student satisfaction. Canonical correlation analysis was used to analyze the student…

The experiment used a repeated measures design to test some hypotheses about the reaction of high school students to simulated jobs. Students explored six divergent jobs in random order and gave their reactions to each job by filling out a standard questionnaire. The results strongly support some revised formulations of Holland's theory of how…

The Self-Directed Search for Educational and Vocational Planning (SDS) is a self-scoring, self-administering instrument designed by John L. Holland, author of the Vocational Reference Inventory. Preliminary use of the SDS led to the speculation that some people were very dissatisfied with their results and others were quite pleased. Of the 4,631…

The performances of 100 4-year olds on the Matching Familiar Figures Test were analyzed in terms of decision time and decision accuracy. The subjects were divided into four groups: (1) the fast/inaccurates, (2) the slow/accurates, (3) the slow inaccurates, and (4) the fast/accurates. Assessment of individual personality characteristics showed that…

This annotated listing of tests currently available for Spanish speakers provides the grade or age levels for which the tests are intended, the subject matter or areas covered, specific references to test reviews in the Mental Measurements Yearbooks, complete names and addresses of publishers, and other general information of interest to…

Instructors whose students sit in a traditional classroom arrangement use space differently than those whose students sit in non-traditional arrangements. One study investigated relationships between teachers' spatial use and seating arrangements, interpersonal relationships, personality characteristics, and sex. The observation system utilized…

This document reports the results of a study by a special AASA commission on the status of the superintendency in 1969-70. A stratified sample of superintendents was selected and superintendents were categorized according to pupil enrollments in their school districts. Major topics reported are (1) personal dimensions of the superintendent; (2)…

The value systems of faculty at three junior colleges in California (each representing an urban, rural, or suburban character) are compared, and the institutional personality of each college is described in terms of the perceptions held by its instructors. The specific purposes of this study are to: (1) identify the values held by 238 staff…

This study focuses on the economic benefits derived by the migrant from migration. The report presents a methodology for computing monetary benefits, an estimate of these benefits, and implications of the findings for public policy. Included are a discussion of domestic migration and public policy, an economic theory of migration, an explanation…

Described is a technological/academic approach to the educational therapy of an autistic child that begins with a theory of thinking and problem postulation and a theory of cognitive and personality development. The theory of thinking and problem postulation is said to be based on the unique characteristic of the human being, the art of being able…

As part of a series of studies investigating occupational aspirations, this study explores the relationships between certain types of motivation and the occupational aspirations of black and white female college students. With emphasis on occupations which, by tradition, have been either open or closed to blacks, the design of the study involved…

This paper presents an investigation of the association between similarity of interests and likability in a manner as nearly comparable as possible to earlier attitude and personality research. The finding of a strong, positive relationship between similarity of interests and likability would be significant for two reasons. First, it would…

Individual and group counseling treatment modes were used by the Probation Office of District Court of the District of Columbia to ascertain whether clients with a particular personality responded more to one treatment plan than to another. In the first of two related counseling experiments, data from four personality instruments were analyzed for…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the sensing and intuitive personality characteristics, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and mathematics achievement in computation, concepts and applications, mathematics attitudes, and intelligence. The 195 eighth-grade students in one junior high school…

The IPAT Children's Personality Questionnaire was administered to two samples of white, middle-class, suburban school children. Both samples were divided into well-adjusted and maladjusted subgroups on the basis of teacher ratings. The CPQ Neuroticism score and the teacher ratings of adjustment status yielded biserial correlations of .12 and .22,…