Presents an exercise which is designed to identify behavior characteristics and attitudes and enable individuals to identify and understand personality traits that have essential implications for becoming a successful entrepreneur. Discussion includes the personality traits of the successful entrepreneur and situational factors contributing to…

Discusses the borderline adolescent in terms of diagnostic perspectives, characteristic features based on disturbed object relations, and treatment. Based on clinical observations, the diagnosis of borderline personality is considered to be compatible with a schizophrenic disorder. Day-treatment and individual therapy are considered from a…

Compared three personality theories (ego development, moral development, and conceptual systems theory) in 102 college students who completed the Sentence Completion Test, This I Believe Test, and Defining Issues Test. Results indicated a significant relationship between all three pairs of theories. (JAC)

Described the development of a scale that measures splitting as a psychological structure. The construct validity of the splitting scale is suggested by the positive relationship between splitting scores and a diagnostic measure of the narcissistic personality disorder, as well as a negative relationship between splitting scores and levels of…

Purpose: This study represents the first reporting of aggregate data of a longitudinal study designed to identify correlations between medical student personality traits and type of residency, later selected. It is a multisite project involving four US medical schools over a period of nearly ten years. The current study sought to test the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between self-regulated learning, personality, and achievement. The study investigated whether a relationship exists between personality and self-regulated learning, whether a relationship exists between achievement and self-regulated learning, and whether achievement moderates the…

Analytical psychology is a field supported by training centers, specially trained analysts, and a growing body of literature. While it receives much recognition, it remains mostly outside the mainstream of counseling and counselor education. This document presents a brief history of analytical psychology and how it has been revisited and renamed…

Florida Atlantic University College of Education was commissioned by the South Florida Annenberg Challenge to develop and create five diagnostic and assessment instruments for leaders that will provide candidate information about: (1) personality skills related to leadership; (2) transformational leadership potential; (3) leadership skills; (4)…

The relationship between various combinations of perceived paternal nurturance-availability and college males' personality adjustment was investigated. High paternal nurturance combined with at least moderate paternal availability and high paternal availability combined with at least moderate paternal nurturance were related to high scores on the…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the underlying dimensions of the 10 Rorschach inkblots by means of standard multidimensional scaling procedures. The question of whether such emergent dimensions would be related to standard Rorschach scoring categories was raised; and the possibility of individual characteristics was explored.…

This article presents Camus' resolution to the issue of man's need and search for a meaningful and continuing personal identity as well as implications for the educative process. (Author)

This study attempted to demonstrate behavioral correlates of two related Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory code types (4-9,9-4) with inpatients from state psychiatric facilities. The findings are discussed in terms of the discriptors available, the role of base rates, and similarity-dissimilarity of 4-9 profiles. A suggestion is offered…

In general, this study found that the validity of single MMPI scales for predicting psychiatric symptoms was too low to be clinically useful for predictions about the individual case. The psychotic scales were particularly lacking in validity. The validity data for all scales is given. (Author/CG)

This study examined the usefulness of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire in differentiating characteristics of counselors who were rated effective and ineffective. (Author)