Author suggests means to help researchers deal with factor analysis as a tool for construct validation of educational objectives. (HB)

The present study looks primarily at the correlates of drug use among a sample of female undergraduate students at a State University in West Virginia. (Author)

Preliminary factor analyses of predictor tests in advantaged and disadvantaged groups is recommended as a way of forming a priori expectations concerning validities of the predictors to guide both use and research. (Authors)

Study considers similarities in listener reaction to musical compositions. (RK)

This study attempted to test the relationship between optimal total heterophily and communication effectiveness, to identify relevant dimensions of homophily/heterophily in achieving communication effectiveness, and to demonstrate a method for measuring source-receiver heterophily, as well as examining their relationship to the communication…

In the present study two modes of information integration, simultaneous and successive, were proposed as alternatives to reasoning and memory. The generality of these two was tested by factor analyzing the cognitive test scores of 9-11-year-old children from Canada and India. (Editor/RK)

Study investigated the validity of several scales from the Differential Personality Inventory, a personality questionnaire designed to measure a number of variables relevant to psychopathology. (Authors)

Results were interpreted to mean that the rating scales generated data that were more a reflection of the rater's point of view than of a teacher's actual classroom behavior. (Authors)

Two batteries of creativity tests measuring traditional'' creativity and creativity as defined by Wallach and Kogan were factor analyzed along with measures of verbal and non-verbal intelligence. (Authors)

The evidence of this study suggests that it is useful to think of creativity and intelligence as the outgrowths of distinct (although overlapping) sets of influences, even when this is not well indicated by discriminant-convergent validation analyses carried out with respect to tests (in contrast to factors). (Authors)

Results suggest an age effect in which academic success at primary school is linked to stable extraversion, while success at university is associated with introversion. (Author)

Gumpgookies is an objective-projective test of motivation to achieve in school, intended for children in an age range of three and a half to eight or possibly nine. (Authors)

The theoretical expectations of duality of attitude structure and comparative lack of bipolarity have now been found using both R and Q methodologies. (Author)