The results of this study provided additional support for the fruitfulness of conceptualizing four separate rational forms of novelty experiencing, as well as additional construct validation for each of the four measures. Overall the differentiation of the forms among themselves and with the external variables was reasonably good. (Author)

For the college classroom climate to be productive, there must be an interaction of the personality of the teacher with the personality of the students. (IR)

The purpose of this study was to determine if four groups of engineering students differing in academic success and persistence could be discriminated on the basis of personality characteristics. Two personality dimensions discriminated: one dimension was described in terms of other-directed characteristics; the other in terms of self-directed…

Results of the study suggest that birth-order effects might be included within the wider framework of approval-dependency theory. Females tend to account for a significant share of birth-order effects. More particularly, firstborn females accounted for much of the differences in expressed attraction as well as need for social approval. (Author)

The proportion of cross-validated and suggestively discriminating items in the area of preference or aversion for a large variety of activities, most of all of which imply excitement or potential excitement, suggests this as the most important finding from the item analysis done in this study. (Author)

In comparing regular matriculents with disadvantaged students, the groups did not differ in degree of motivation but regulars were concerned with social evaluation and disadvantaged students with self-worth. High school averages, Otis I.Q., study habits, and reality of aspiration level were the best predictors of successful college performance.…

Reported are the results of a personality inventory measuring the personality dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and lying, which was administered to over 3,000 school children. (KW)

The findings of Masling and Harris were felt to violate the principle of parsimony and to cast unwarranted asperisons on the students who served as Es. The data were reinterpreted as showing that the male students were simply applying sound clinical principles in an attempt to do as well as possible on the task given them. (Author)

Scales of the Minnesota Counseling Inventory (MCI) were used to compare persisters with nonpersisters. All four comparisons involving the Conformity scale and two of four comparisons involving the Family Relationships scale demonstrated significant differences. Persisters scored lower than nonpersisters on all comparisons involving the Conformity…

"The results of the study did not favor the indiscriminate use of the Achievement via Conformity scale, the Achievement via Independence scale, and the Intellectual Efficiency scale for predicting GPA of college freshmen. (Author)