Career Assessments are useful in helping people uncover their interests, values, personality, and skills. The problem with assessments occurs when counselors do not use the information to explore options for career decisions with students. This paper offers 10 alternatives to administering Career Assessments, which counselors can immediately…

Parents are often asked to complete behavioral checklists and personality inventories regarding their children when they bring them in for psychotherapy or neuropsychological testing. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the Conners' Parent Report Scale (CPRS), and the Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) are frequently used tests. Some…

This book presents one method for identifying mind-sets, learning styles, and motivation patterns, and using the patterns in planning instruction and other helping processes, with the objective of helping people find and use their strengths to ameliorate weaknesses. The approach presented is based on Carl Jung's ideas about psychological types, as…

This study examined the risks associated with increased reliance upon technology, including e-mail, instant messages, and cellular phones. Subjects were undergraduate college students ranging in age from 17 to 29. A sample of 40 students was taken from a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. A second sample of 25 engineering students was…

This study seeks to either verify or refute the hypothesis that a positive relationship exists between self-concept and underachievement. (Author)

A sensitive measurement model is developed that provides transactional scale values for individual members of a group, as well as an evaluation of pairwise interactions and balances that are emergent properties of the group itself. (Author/DG)

Responses of pupils in 60 sixth-grade classes in Sweden to a 40-item questionnaire were factor analyzed at two levels of aggregation, classes and pupils-within-classes. Relations between personality variables and the attitude scales were also studied and implications for personality measurement drawn. (Author/SJL)

Students selected as emotionally handicapped reported themselves to be tense, frustrated, and driven. They had irrational worries, and were sensitively aware of being criticized. Selected students lacked superego strength and emotional stability. Clear differences between primary and intermediate teachers' perceptions of emotionally handicapping…

Examining the involvement of women in rural community decision making in terms of the personal and social characteristics of women participants in two power actor pools, this study reveals two female profiles: that of a good companion female model and that of a resource model. (JC)

Self-perceptions were found to be associated with a variety of affective responses, role stress indices, demographic measures, and personality characteristics. (Author)

Singer Vocational Evaluation Systems in use in Nova Scotia create a simulated work setting with which the individual can readily identify and experience job tasks in a noncompetitive atmosphere. Work behavior and performance are evaluated to identify what individuals can and like to do. (JOW)

The potential educational import of noncognitive personal characteristics is examined with particular reference to problems in their measurement. Attention is drawn to some dangers and difficulties in using noncognitive measures in educational practice, and to the need for safeguards against misuse. (Author/RD)

Studied was the adjustment of Israeli high school students in relation to the Repression-Sensitization personality dimension, which concerns the individual's characteristic response to threatening stimuli. Repressors avoid such stimuli; sensitizers approach them. Adjustment was measured by peer acceptance and teacher evaluation scores, both of…

Specific sub-tests of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and Merrill-Palmer Scales have been observed to evoke behavioral expression of phase-specific conflicts. Clinical observations of a disadvantaged inner-city population suggest that what is being tested is the preschool child's experience with adults in the…