The study assessed Holland's theoretical signs of consistency and differentiation as measures of academic aptitude and achievement. Findings show significant differences on SAT scores for the sign of differentiation, none for GPA over a four year college period, and none on SAT or GPA for the sign of consistency. (Author)

Occupational personality types of Arts and Science freshmen were compared employing the six General Occupational Themes of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory in a multiple-discriminant analysis. Subjects were 202 male and 158 female freshmen. Univariate analyses of variance between groups on all Themes indicated significant mean differences.…

A study explored the relationship between personality characteristics and interest in writing an autobiography. Fifty-three undergraduates in a university course in the psychology of personality participated in the study. Results indicate that extraverted students chose not to engage in self-exploration by writing an autobiography, but that…

Supports the notion that personality affects cognitive test performance and that such a relation can be experimentally demonstrated. (RL)

An administrator with a hybrid disposition, part scholar and part riverboat gambler, may serve more effectively than either model alone, suggests this executive of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. Many academic administrators try to live by common sense, which is often yesterday's heresy. (Author/LBH)

POI Fakability during counselor selection procedures was investigated through two test administrations with a group of 21 new graduate students in counseling. Subjects were not given self-actualization information. The results imply new counseling students have sufficient information about self-actualization to disseminate Personality Orientation…

This paper lists four interdependent family characteristics, and argues that they have been distinguishing features of the Western family for several centuries. They are: family membership, mother's age during childbearing, spouse age difference, and presence of other people. Their interrelationships and possible importance in personality…

A program of cooperation between teachers and professional consultants in the field of mental health made possible the identification of children with problems and the successful modification of their behavior. (JD)

Specifically focuses upon the ways in which role models are selected and rendered useful by black adolescents in their various attempts to cultivate features of their personal and social identities. (Author/AM)

This article reports on studies on the phenomena of teaching at the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University. (JD)

The unrealized power of education lies in the ability of the imaginative teacher to understand the vital role imagination and dreams play in cognitive growth and to transmit this awareness to students. (JD)

A theory of the importance and effect of an exchange-orientation for marriage and friendship was developed. It was hypothesized from this theory that an exchange-orientation in both members of the pair would be inimical to marriage adjustment and facilitative of situationally determined friendships. The data generally support the hypothesis.…

Seventy-one psychiatric resident-supervisory dyads were studied in terms of Schutz's interpersonal theory of compatibility, and personality changes were measured with Schutz's Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation Scale. Predictions relating compatibility to satisfaction with the dyad and competence ratings were not confirmed.…

There is an acute need to revise premedical advising to better meet the needs of students. Medical schools should share the responsibility and initiative in creating a system whereby career choices are made by positive actions on the part of students rather than by trial and error or default. (Author/LBH)

Investigates the kind of person attracted to the elementary teaching role, and the type of individual who will maintain particular standards regarded as necessary by the community. (Author/RK)