The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the Sensation-Seeking Scale were administered to 219 American undergraduates and 879 English twins. Sensation-seeking was positively correlated to EPQ-measured traits of extraversion and psychoticism. There was no relationship between sensation-seeking and the trait dimension of neuroticism.…

Teenagers were questioned regarding perceived quality of parenting , personal adjustment, and political-social-personal attitudes and values. Those who perceived their parents as below average tended toward an adversarial orientation to adults and adult values. Mutual disidentification between parent and child may be an early cause of adolescent…

Shows that, in American culture, individuals must succeed in their ventures before they are assigned highly favorable personality traits. Concludes that people will favorably evaluate a person the more that person fulfills the combined cultural values of risk, status, and success. (RL)

If a motive for cognitive consistency and the extravert's preference for the arousing and novel are opposing tendencies, one would predict that highly extraverted individuals will show less preference for states of cognitive consistency than those who are less extraverted. Two experiments test this prediction. (Author/RK)

Personality and demographic variables for 110 members of a therapeutic community are examined to determine whether differences exist between dropouts and completers of the program. Attempts are made to generalize findings from alcoholism treatment programs, find differences unique to the correctional program, and develop a practical predictive…

This article discusses two issues relating to assessment of preschool children: (1) whether assessments should be attempted; and (2) the issue of what is a "good" assessment. General impressions from a review of the literature and from personal experience are preschool assessment is desirable and can be useful. (Author)

Measures of racial attitude, conceptual style, commitment to candidate and electoral process, social-political evaluation, and voting intentions, were administered to white college students (N=320) before the 1972 Presidential election. Prediction of behavioral intentions becomes more powerful as attitudinal measures are made more directly…

The affect of congruent Holland personality environments between clients seeking career counseling and the counselors was investigated. Students (N=144) with undeclared majors selected between three career counselors, scripted to represent one Holland personality type. Results indicate a predominant selection of the Holland Social-type counselor…

English-language Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI's) were administered to 40 bilingual Mexican-American and 109 Anglo-American psychiatric patients in a community mental health center. With K corrections, Mexican-American subjects scored higher on the L and K scales, but no significant differences were found on clinical scales…

A principal axis factor analysis of 58 occupational and nonoccupational scales of Form T of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) was performed using data of 1068 males representing a wide range of age and socioeconomic status groups. Both occupational groupings and personality correlates showed substantial agreement with Holland's (1966)…

Male and female subjects (N=186) participated in a simulated jury experiment in which race of the victim, race of the defendant, and amount of evidence against the defendant were varied. Results indicated racial similarity of the defendant and/or victim to subject jurors influenced levels of negative traits attributed to the defendant. (Author)

Tests indicate that the attitudes and judgments of ability and aims change in an athlete's mind during the course of training and actual competition. (JD)

A computer-administered (CA) form of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) (A. Tellegen, 1982) was created, and scores of 126 college students were compared to those of 101 who took a paper-and-pencil MPQ. Multivariate analyses found no group differences for the CA format, and likelihood of profile validity was decreased. Results…

The concurrent validity of Spanish versions of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 and the Personality Assessment Inventory (L. Morey, 1991) was studied with 105 Hispanic patients using a revised Spanish version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (L. Robins and others, 1981) as the criterion measure. Results suggest that both…