The effects of several attitudinal, cognitive skill, and personality variables in response to auditory and visual hallucination suggestions to hypnotic subjects are assessed. Cooperative attitudes toward hypnosis and involvement in everyday imaginative activities (absorption) correlated with response to auditory and visual hallucination…

This study was undertaken to test Dahlstrom's hypothesis that the clinical utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) could be improved through the use of dimensionally pure personality trait and psychopathological state scales to supplant the present dimensionally complex clinical and validity scales. Results failed to…

Argues that five stages in the development of self concept can be recognized with a different type of self esteem being appropriate to each stage. The stages are: the dynamic self, self-as-object, self-as-knower, self-as-intergrated-whole, and the "selfless" self. (MS)

College students and working youth between the ages of 18 and 21 were approached in public places and asked to volunteer for an interview. A total of 57 participants responded to a semistructured Ego Identity Status Interview and an Ego Identity Incomplete Sentence Blank. (JMB)

Reviews difficulties attending psychological assessment of individuals of cultural and ethnic minority groups. Critically reviews proposed solutions such as construction of new norms for conventional measures or development of new, culture-specific instruments. Emphasizes need to comprehend direct experience of subject and describes use of…

Calculated two-point Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory codes for 403 convicted sex offenders, yielding 43 code types. Sex offenders showed more 4-5 and 4-8 profiles than did other prisoners. Rapists showed more profiles associated with assaultiveness. There were significant differences in code frequencies between incestuous biological…

Evaluated alcohol-dependent inpatients and nonalcoholic controls on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) twice: once under instructions to answer honestly, and once under dissimulation instructions. Showed 80 percent predictability of alcoholism under honest conditions, and significantly more benign profiles in the dissimulation…

Using samples of psychiatric, medical, and chronic pain patients, the effectiveness of the Hysteria scale and of various combinations of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scales as predictors of the simultaneous occurrence of two characteristics was evaluated: denial of psychological problems and admission of physical problems. The value…

Evaluated the "Cassel Type-A Personality Assessment (TAP)" for identifying Type-A prone individuals (N=110). Factor scores were computed and analyzed by a discriminant analysis which resulted in an overall accuracy of prediction of 95.5 percent of the original group members. (Author/BL)

SYMLOG is a comprehensive field theory that synthesizes and integrates a diverse spectrum of social scientific frameworks. Through its quantification and organizations, one can describe and evaluate personality, values, and interpersonal relationships through three dimensions, the end product being a field diagram. Its application to work with…

Strength, super ego strength, ego, self sentiment, and both forms of the High School Personality Questionnaire were administered to 688 brothers and 2973 unrelated boys. Multiple abstract variance analysis (MAVA) Q-Data, and maximum likelihood analysis were used to assess heritability in their personality control system. (ABB)

Administered the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire to boys (N=1117) and girls (N=1199) in Greece for standardization purposes. Results indicated that factor comparisons between England and Greece are reasonably high, strongly suggesting identical factors in both countries. (LLL)

Cluster analysis of IQ and achievement test scores using the Jastak Assessment System, an approach purporting to derive behavioral descriptors of personality domains, was performed for 24 learning disabled and mildly retarded 7-to 17-year-olds. Disagreements between teacher and JAS ratings ranged from 37 percent - 71 percent for the clusters.…

The literature suggests that how one reacts to feedback is influenced by kind of feedback, conditions under which feedback is presented, and a variety of relevant subject variables. The most frequent design has resulted in acceptance of false feedback by college students leading to derogation of instruments and assessors. (Author/MV)