Discusses the need for students to learn to recognize and cope with difficult co-workers. Describes a few types of personalities that exhibit difficult or disturbed behavior and offers suggestions for coping with these personalities. (JOW)

Reviews NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), which is based on Five-Factor Model taxonomy of personality traits. Summarizes characteristics of test, features for administration and scoring, and studies of reliability, stability, and validity. Claims NEO-PI may be particularly appropriate for use in counseling because it is brief,…

Holland's theory provides a means of describing both people and environments. He has developed techniques for assessing and classifying different vocational instruments. His newest measure, the Position Classification Inventory, should stimulate new research in vocational psychology. (49 references) (Author/SK)

Holland's model of vocational interests influenced development of the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), Strong Interest Inventory, and Campbell Interest and Skill Survey. His theory led Campbell to make the following changes in the SCII: two kinds of content scales, reorganization using the hexagonal system, and merged inventories for men…

Career assessment activities in the Self-Directed Search and constructs in Holland's theory increase understanding of an individual's personal career theory (PCT). The PCT provides information about a person's readiness for career decision making and the types of career interventions that might be effective. (Author/SK)

Importance of temperament continues to spur interest in research. This article examines unresolved conceptual issues in the measurement of temperament. Despite many psychometric problems and conceptual shortcomings of measures derived from various perspectives that are available to assess temperament, the constructs themselves have important…

The effectiveness of the Infrequency-Psychopathology Scale (P. Arbisi and Y. Ben-Porath, 1995) in discriminating between groups of patients administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 under honest and fake-bad conditions was studied with 74 patients. Results support use of the scale in detecting malingering in psychiatric…

When the NEO Five-Factor Inventory and the Self-Directed Search were completed by 490 workers, there were strong links between Holland personality types and Prediger's dimensions of data/ideas and things/people. Links were somewhat different for men and women in terms of magnitude and pattern. Dimensions were strongly associated with the…

Describes the characteristics of resilience and discusses flow theory. Defines the overriding goal of counseling from a flow theory perspective as assisting students to order their consciousness so the self can develop ever-increasing levels of complexity. Lists and defines five conditions that advance the likelihood of an individual's optimal…

Openness to Experience (a personality trait) is examined in relation to suicidal behavior. People scoring low on an inventory measuring Openness are less likely to report suicidal ideation. It is hypothesized that such people with major depression may be at increased risk for completed suicide, in part because they are less likely to report…

Article provides a model of work personality incorporating Erikson's theory of development, Neff's research in work behavior, and Bandura's theory of observational learning. Applies Hershenson's model of work adjustment to conceptualize interventions that strengthen work personality to increase work-role behavior. (Author/JDM)

Explores what is known about the genetic underpinnings of temperament. Examines the role of experience in shaping personality, suggesting that personality is both heritable and influenced by environment. (HTH)

Using K. Bartholomew's (1990) 4-dimensional model of adult attachment as an organizational framework, 10 developmental personality styles are differentiated regarding their unique attachment experiences, working models of self and other, and feedforward beliefs. Implications of an attachment theory framework for counseling clients with problematic…

We examined the Big Five personality traits of Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Extraversion, and Openness, as well as four narrower traits of Aggression, Optimism, Tough-Mindedness, and Work Drive in relation to absences from school for middle- and high-school students. Participants were 248 seventh grade students, 321 tenth…

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether the six-factor structure of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale could be replicated in a community-based sample. A sample of 255 adult participants (55.7% female, 44.3% male) ranging in age from 18 to 78 (mean = 37.0) completed the questionnaire. Based on the screen test and parallel…