This study investigated personality and academic achievement differences between athletic and non-athletic ninth and tenth grade girls in a Canadian school. Athletes participated in at least one of four interscholastic sports while the non-athletes were involved in only activities associated with a required Physical Education course. Differences…

Many methods in clinical and personality psychology has as their implicit if not explicit aim the eliciting of transformations so that the mind of the subject may be better understood. By offering a graduate seminar in "Psychobiography and Historiometry," the author hoped to deal with the problem of design and transformation in the study…

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship of the limitation and outcome of simultaneous speech to those dimensions of personality indexes by Cattell's 16PF Questionnaire. More than 500 conversations of 24 female college students were computer-analyzed for instances of simultaneous speech, and the frequencies with which they…

This study was conducted to discover differences in personality characteristics among student leaders. The personality characteristics of presidents of campus organizations affiliated with one of four distinguishable student subcultures, identified by previous research as vocational, academic, collegiate, and nonconformist, were measured by the…

This study was designed to assess the use of an individualized laboratory-oriented high school physics program used in one Black Hawk County, Iowa, school. The three problems investigated were: (1) what short-term and long-term learning resulted from the use of the materials, (2) what student characteristics were related to learning outcomes, and…

The symposium focused on some problems and issues in the assessment of human personality traits and was planned around a research study being conducted by Educational Testing Service under contract with ONR. The study is trying to provide a service to researchers who are working (through the use of factor analysis) toward a theoretical basis in…

Students' drawings of the family were used as a projective diagnostic tool for analyzing social-psychological family roles of intellectually normal and superior students who have reading-learning problems. Drawings of two groups of students were presented. One was called the "Honor Five," made up of college honor students, and the other was called…

Functional Potential is a concept stemming from ego psychology that describes the degree to which a subject is able to tolerate ambiguity, delay gratification, exhibit adaptive-flexibility, demonstrate goal directedness, relate to self and others, and have a clear sense of personal identity. Here, that concept has been related to the Omnibus…

The present study was undertaken as a reanalysis of data collected and reported by Lair and Biddy to determine whether the personality dimensions of denial or anxiety, as measured by the MMPI, predict subsequent open heart surgery mortality differently by sex. (Author)

The tendency to inspect visual material (slides) rather than to move on to the next slide was compared among introverts and extroverts. Results show: 1) extroverts inspected stimuli for a shorter time; 2) extroverts made more and faster reponses; 3) extroverts produced significantly higher proportion of runs of accelerating responses. (Editor/RK)

In this study, a random sample of 20 male care-givers was contrasted to 20 male engineers and 20 female care-givers on personality traits and sex typed contingency behaviors. Personalities of male care-givers corresponded to the feminine direction of their female counterparts, but were not significantly more feminine than male engineers.…

Everett Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory is a significant and widely used contribution to humanistic psychology and personality assessment. W. S. Zimmerman (1969) evaluated the POI and his observations led to the development of a complementary form, the POD (Personal Orientation Dimensions) and to a new test, the DOSAB (Dimensions of…

Through factor analysis, seventeen abstract concepts of personal characteristics and administrative skills were redefined to six more specific ones. The purpose of this analysis was to identify critical characteristics which can be used to evaluate administrators or prospective leaders of colleges or universities. (SW)

Humanistic psychologists tend to describe psychodiagnostic assessment as nonhumanistic. They argue that assessment is reductionistic and artificial, ignores the examiner-patient relationship, judges people, and is overly intellectual. These concerns are then addressed from a pro-assessment perspective. (EVH)