In this study, the authors examined how overreporting of psychopathology indices on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; L. C. Morey, 1991) performed as screening measures for malingering in a sample of 166 defendants undergoing pretrial court-ordered evaluations in the federal criminal justice system. Using results from the Structured…

This volume presents the 2008 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (National Council of Professors of Educational Administration). The theme for this year's address, yearbook and convention is "Leadership on the Frontlines: Changes in Preparation and Practice." This Yearbook contains six parts. Part 1,…

Assessment use is a cornerstone of successful counseling. Information from assessments is used for making several important therapeutic decisions, requiring the counselor to have information about assessment devices and approaches. Tests are being published at a remarkable rate; it is a challenge for counselors to stay well informed. Products and…

This study evaluated the representativeness of eight personality prototypes among alcoholic patients, prison inmates, general psychiatric patients, and normals. Classification hit rates ranged from 25.0 percent for a college student group to 53.6 percent for male prison inmates. These figures were substantially greater than chance. Two profiles…

This study sought to determine if personality traits could be added to the list of correlates of occupational choice in college students and to determine if any of the obtained personality differences between students in different college majors were due to exposure to different college curricula, or to the result of different personality types…

The Vocational Personality Report (VPR) is a computer-generated report that provides information useful in vocational rehabilitation service planning. Input data required by the VPR are 16 raw scores from the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire-Form E (16 PF-E), an inventory designed for persons with low-level language skills. The VPR…

Gordon Allport believed that one could learn about the content and structure of people's personalities by looking at their expressive movements. While his expectations were not absolute, he did believe that different expressive behaviors were consistent with each other, and that any given expressive behavior, for a particular individual, would be…

A sample of 1,877 high school seniors completed the Activities Index and High School Characteristics Index. The student responses were used to identify personality needs and environmental press differences across program and degree of program separation variables. (Author)

A serial-reaction task was used to study personality, as well as physiological, correlates of individual differences in performance decrement under low task-load conditions. (Editor)

In this prison-based study four groups of youthful offenders differing in their use of marijuana are compared on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, California Psychological Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Beta. The data are compared with other investigators' data, and the implications are discussed. (Author)

The personality characteristics of 50 successfully employed and 50 unsuccessfully employed mildly retarded males (16-19 years old) were evaluated. Analyses of scores on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, FORM E, indicated that the successfully employed Ss were more practical than imaginative, more tough-minded than tender-minded, and…

The present study was designed to examine the usefulness of a feed-back based simulation paradigm in altering cross-racial attributions of personality characteristics. (Author)

While numerous sociologists have long recognized the importance and utility of employing secondary sources in sociological research, the last will and testament appears to be the single most neglected document in sociological research. (Author/JC)

This article compares personality characteristics of women physical educators with women educators from other college departments. (JS)

This paper presents a framework which may clarify differences in the definition of empathy, and examines various assessment techniques. In some instances inconsistencies were found between the conceptual and operational definitions. (Author)