Florida Atlantic University College of Education was commissioned by the South Florida Annenberg Challenge to develop and create five diagnostic and assessment instruments for leaders that will provide candidate information about: (1) personality skills related to leadership; (2) transformational leadership potential; (3) leadership skills; (4)…

This paper describes the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), developed by I. Myers and K. Briggs (1940s) to assess personality type. Based on Jungian theory, the MBTI has become a tool for identifying the 16 different patterns of action into which every person fits. The 16 personality types are based on patterns of: (1) extraversion-introversion;…

The traits of Lincoln the war president are distinguished from his influential executive strategies. (KM)

This study provides additional data on the validity of the MCPS when used with severely disturbed children. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the verbal creative thinking abilities of fluency, flexibility, and originality are negatively related to authoritarian pupil control orientations as measured by the Pupil Control Ideology Form (Willower, Eidell & Hoy, 1967). (Author/RK)

The purpose of this essay is not to answer why the educational upheaval of the late 1960's came and went so quickly, but to establish two opposite models of student attitudes and behavior in order to identify students within these two extremes. (Author/RK)

The relationship between various combinations of perceived paternal nurturance-availability and college males' personality adjustment was investigated. High paternal nurturance combined with at least moderate paternal availability and high paternal availability combined with at least moderate paternal nurturance were related to high scores on the…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the underlying dimensions of the 10 Rorschach inkblots by means of standard multidimensional scaling procedures. The question of whether such emergent dimensions would be related to standard Rorschach scoring categories was raised; and the possibility of individual characteristics was explored.…

Study was undertaken to determine the degree to which the EPPS, CPI, and 16 PF scales are correlated with the EPI scales and to determine the degree to which the scales in all four inventories are measuring the same common traits. (Authors)

The relationship of marital status, age and previous nursing experience of community college nursing students to dogmatism was investigated. Analysis of variance results indicated that married students had significantly lower dogmatism than did their unmarried classmates. The trend was toward the older students and those with nursing experience…

Yale freshmen were classified into four ideology groupings and two levels of activism. The absence of significant interactions and the concordance of some correlates of activism and ideology are discussed. (DM)

The conformity hypothesis is examined by relating the lie scale scores of groups of secondary school boys to two measures of conformity. (Author)

From the results outlined in this paper it seems that the practice of explicitly drawing attention to the L scale does help reduce the amount of faking good.' (Author)

Final article in series dealing with results of a two-year study of college students. (SP)

The present study was limited to an analysis of personality characteristics of administrators and counselors in training. Its purpose was to determine whether the personality characteristics of graduate students studying to be educational administrators were significatly different from graduate students studying to be counselors. (Author)