The results of the investigation of the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) suggests that the POI may have value as a tool in the selection of dormitory assistants. (Author)

This study tested Tompkins' ideo- affective resonance theory, according to which there is a love-affair between ideological belief and personal feelings." A theory that social behavior is a function of tendencies to help or hurt oneself and/or others" was suggested by results. (Author/DB)

Paper presented at the Conference on Research in Medical Education, 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Houston, Texas, November 1, 1968.

Gathered MMPI and demographic data on six groups, each of 25 men who required psychological pretrial assessment. The groups differed according to offense type. The remand's age on admission and whether he had been in corrections before the current offense were the best discriminators among the groups. (Author)

Prior theory and research have suggested that self-disclosure may have a curvilinear relationship with psychological disturbance. The present study investigated this hypothesis. Results offer partial support for the hypothesis and add substantially to the external validity of prior research. (Author)

Compares the results of two personality inventories used with 63 adolescent patients in a state mental hospital. The inventories used were the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire. (Author/CM)

Offender status had a negative effect on dimensions involving acceptance of the client for therapy but little effect on assessment of personality variables. (Author)

Rating-related dimensions led to narrow encodings, thus hindering low-anxiety subjects who normally encode broadly. Even explicit ratings of unrelated dimensions did not induce high-anxiety subjects to encode more broadly, which may indicate inflexibility in deploying memory strategies. (Author)

The high choice manipulation yielded greater attitude change than the low-choice manipulation. Low-choice subjects who received the attitude questionnaire before the information measures wanted information more than if offered the information first, implying a sensitizing effect produced by the attitude questionnaire for the low-choice subjects.…

Three experiments evaluated the effects of differential personality information revealed in an employment interview on ratings of applicant job suitability and expected performance. Occupation, desirability of applicant self-referent style, and experience level of applicants were also varied. (Author/SS)

This longitudinal study evaluates age/cohort and sex differences in personality by administering the Cattell 16 Personality Factor Test four times over an eight-year period to 331 men and women who were 54 to 70 years old at the time of the first measurement. (CM)

Usefulness of the Comrey Validity Check scale score as an index of random or indiscriminate responding to the Comrey Personality Scales was evaluated on a large sample of Navy paramedical personnel. Tables are presented and implications are discussed. (Author/JKS)

To determine the relationship between Spielberger's measure of trait anxiety and social-interpersonal vs. physical danger trait anxiety, Ss were administered the trait scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Lykken's Activity Preference Questionnaire (APQ). (Editor)

This study investigated the hypothesis that primary process expression on Gottshalk's Five Minute Verbalization Task would be more representative of clinical status in schizophrenia than primary process expression on the Rorschach. Subjects were 21 males and 15 females, ages 19-41 years, newly admitted to the hospital and treated with…