In an attempt to provide insight into frequently ignored aspects of the validity of student evaluations of teachers and teacher performance on the college level, the article analyzes a study to compare instructional characteristics to personality dimensions. Findings indicated a degree of relationship. Results of the study are discussed. (DB)

Female college undergraduates on academic probation and the Dean's List were compared on measures of identification and personality characteristics. Concluded that the absence or presence of certain personality traits may be more crucial and influential in determining academic and, perhaps, personal competency than is sex-role identification.…

Summarizes the major forms of cross-cultural research on personality development and discusses their contribution to developmental research. Also discusses some major issues in research on acculturation. (Author/SS)

The development of the American system of school athletics from the time of the Puritans to the present day is discussed, and the social ramifications of our contemporary sports culture are considered. (LH)

It was hypothesized that true externals and those who adopt an external locus of control as a defense differ in the amount of personal responsibility they accept for task outcomes. Defensive externals varied in their causal attributions as a function of task outcome, whereas nondefensive externals did not. (Editor/SJL)

This study related major parameters of moral character (socialization and empathy) to self-reported drug use by 88 students. Level of socialization correlated significantly with total drugs used, frequency of marijuana use, and number of drug-related social complications. However, empathy did not relate to the drug-use variables examined.…

The concept of personality integration and effective personal functioning was investigated from a systems theory perspective by studying participants from divergent subcultural groups. Results indicate that process dimensions of complexity and openness do differentiate between highly integrated and control group participants across subcultures…

Two groups of Israeli boys and girls in Grades 4-8, one group of 182 intellectually gifted with a mean WISC IQ of 140, and one group of 310 nongifted, were compared on several indices of personal-social adjustment. (MS)

Two nonverbal methods for assessing degree of interpersonal attraction--placing representative figures on a ruled board and human figure drawing--were explored. Subjects' scores differed as a function of peer liking on the measures of distance, degree of detail, affective peer drawings and peer drawing articulation. (MV)

Undergraduate students (N=40) were classified as either judgers or perceivers based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and enrolled in six study skills classes characterized by more or less structure. Results indicated groups were equivalent prior to the course but afterwards judgers used study skills and attitudes more than perceivers. (Author)

Findings of a study which tests cross culturally an American model of self concept formation process indicate that: "In schools where socioeconomic heterogeneity is greater, meritocratic criteria predominate but in schools ...populated predominantly by lower socioeconomic populations, ascriptive criteria tend to play a much greater role..." in…

Seven dimensions of teacher attitudes about the educative process and four personality variables were studied over four samples of candidates for an intern teaching program. Three factors combining teacher beliefs and personality variables were consistently formed over samples. Discusses the multidimensional nature of the beliefs and proposes…

New Zealand samples of church members and non church members were compared with U.S. samples. Personality assessment was obtained through use of the Sixteen Personality Factor questionnaire. Church members were consistently different on several personality dimensions. Tendermindedness, super ego strength, dominance and conservativism were…

Resolution of cognitive dissonance following a pleasant and unpleasant task was examined under conditions of high and low justification with 60 male psychology students. Numbers were written at random and other tasks were completed followed by description of task to another subject. Mode of dissonance resolution was found to be a function of…

Self Directed Search (SDS) and Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) results occupations and fields of study were organized to show the distributions of personalities within an occupation or field of study. The results show that single fields tolerate several types, but some types occur only infrequently. (Author)