Reported are the results of a personality inventory measuring the personality dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and lying, which was administered to over 3,000 school children. (KW)

Explored the assumption that judges have a preference for expert testimony from medically trained witnesses. Psychiatrists received the highest ratings among six professional groups, and medical groups received higher ratings than did nonmedical groups. The importance of the medical/nonmedical distinction was moderated somewhat by other factors.…

Examines the validity of a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory code type interpretive program. Results showed the system was highly rated by three independent experienced clinicians. The program can be used in validating other automated test interpretation systems. Feedback by expert judges can be used to improve such systems. (Author/JAC)

Presents a set of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory norms for a mixed psychiatric group of adolescents (N=1022). Normative information is stratified according to five age categories and includes means and standard deviations for the validity, clinical, and 48 content scales. Discusses the usefulness of these norms for clinicians.…

Children aged 7 to 14 years were administered a computerized version of the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices test. Computer and traditional version performance was found to be similar in terms of total mean score, correlation with the WISC-R, Raven's subscale intercorrelations, and Raven's total mean score composition. (Author/RD)

To test the reliability of children's reporting as compared with that of their mothers, a highly structured psychiatric diagnostic interview was used with 307 Ss, ages 6 through 16. Highest agreement was found on questions concerning symptoms that are concrete, observable, severe, and unambiguous. (Author/SW)

To distinguish disturbed children from normal children, similar structured diagnostic interviews about the child were given by different interviewers to a cohort of 307 mother-child pairs (children 6 to 16 years old). A diagnosis was made by computer on each interview, using specific criteria. (Author/SW)

Presents the format for the development of interpretive statements covering an entire test battery content on both objective tests and projective instruments. This procedure, the semiautomated full battery, can lessen significantly the time and much of the repetition entailed in psychological report writing. (Author)

Determined additional data on the reliability and validity of brief versions of the Depression Adjective Checklist by reanalyzing the data for Forms E, F, and G. Suggests the brevity and relatively high intercorrelation among the lists are assets when repeated measures are needed or many variables are measured. (Author/JAC)

Examines the Ball Corporation's method of employee training. Emphasis is on training on the production line: the use of a worker incentive program, a taskteam approach to efficient new plant startups and expansions, and a well-planned employee training program based on both technical familiarity and psychological attitudes. (CT)

Children are considered "disturbed" when they behave in ways that are unacceptable to signficant adults in their environment. Diagnosis of such children, however, is more often for administrative purposes than for the purpose of preventing further and more serious disturbance. (Author/GC)

Concludes that psychologists in Utah are not biased by their religions, or the relationship between the two when integrating case data to assign formal diagnoses. (Author)

A critique is presented of trends in sex differences studies over the past few years. Such studies have failed to study possible integration of sex role identity as a developmental process, and have often neglected self-definitions in favor of stereotypes. A new approach for measuring androgynous competencies is suggested. (Author)

Children referred for psychological evaluation had been administered the Rorschach test and the WISC-R, among other tests, for diagnostic purposes. Significant relationships were found between groups for some variables after which prediction formulas were developed for estimates and use of verbal terminology associated with IQ levels. (Author)