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…

Suggests that penis envy leads to punishment of sexual aggression, and several psychoanalytic hypotheses for further experimentation on this construct are presented. (Editor)

Results from 1,297 adolescents and adults show that, consistent with hypothesized relationships, people classified as Intuitive by the MBTI earned higher KAIT Composite IQs than those classified as Sensing. However, most other hypotheses were not supported, as the Fluid-Crystallized discrepancy was not meaningfully related to any MBTI dimension.…

Explored how persons become self-employed. In critical incident interviews with five self-employed persons the critical events that assisted or hindered progress toward self-employment were listed in chronological order. In general, becoming self-employed involved establishing conditions of action that enhanced a sense of agency, thus enabling…

Describes an item response theory-based structural equation model that allows the short-term stability and the magnitude of retest effects to be assessed for some types of personality traits. Provides an empirical application of the model and discusses the substantive implications of the results. (SLD)

Investigates the relationships among adolescents' stressful life events (SLEs), temperament, externalizing and internalizing behaviors, and global life satisfaction. A modest correlation was found between life satisfaction and Extraversion, whereas moderate correlations were found between life satisfaction and Neuroticism and life satisfaction and…

Reviews three prominent methods for evaluating suicidal risk in college students. Considers methods which focus on identifying personality characteristics of suicidal students; developing techniques to measure suicidal risk; and analyzing the behavior of suicidal college students. Stresses need for further educational efforts to increase awareness…