The Omnibus Personality Inventory score patterns of graduates in majors classified into five Holland occupational categories were compared. It was concluded that separate theories of occupational choice for males and females are required if the theories are to be based on personality constructs. (Author)

Survey shows academic pressures and lack of freedom most common sources of stress experienced by freshmen medical students. (IR)

Evening college faculty members...had a generally less favorable attitude toward adult students than they had toward their ideal conception of a college student. (Author)

Findings resulting from attempts to explore hypotheses derived from contemporary descriptions of abusive mothers which see them as hostile, overwhelmed by maternal responsibilities. Rather they appear unable to empathize with children, frustrated in dependency needs emotionally deprived. Reprints available from John R. Hurley, Department of…

Because of the heterogeneity of liberal-conservative attitudes," this study used 15 subscales which were factor anayzed into 5 factors: Practical Individualism; Moral Crusading, Unequal Opportunities, Idealistic Individualism, and Confidence in Government Officials. (DB)

Research supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. (DS)

A case study is presented in which a patient received four MMPIs and attempted to present himself as mentally healthy though suffering from a mental disorder. The changes on the MMPI profiles are interpreted in terms of the patient's clinically observed dynamics. Implications are discussed. (Author)

Describing two studies, the author concluded that need for achievement is not unconscious and that the self-peer rank method may be a useful adjunct to assessment procedures. (Author)

Members of a longitudinal study were classified on the basis of their drinking behavior. The core of traits which described the cohorts of each category of women drinkers were discernible to raters in the early adolescent period. Problem drinkers and abstainers had in common certain traits which suggested inadequate coping devices. (Author)

Creative Ss had a stronger cathexis of research activity and were highly flexible, original, and rejecting of outside influence. They had identified primarily with their fathers, and that their interest in mathematics had arisen from sublimation or search for autonomy in fantasy rather than from reaction formation or withdrawal. (Author)

Based on a doctoral dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Author)