Examined the self-reported impact of factors affecting career decision making and tested the validity of the Career Factor Checklist (CFC) developed from O'Neil, Meeker, and Borgers' model. Results provide evidence of the factorial validity of the CFC, and support the O'Neil model and hypothesized factors affecting career decision making.…

The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) was factor analyzed at each of six age levels between four and six-plus years through the method of principal factors. Results substantially support Wechsler's division of the WPPSI subtests into a Verbal and a Performance scale at all age levels. (Author)

Examines if the same five bipolar factors that appear for the ideal role concepts of public school teachers also appear for parochial school teachers. Results indicated that parochial and public school teachers have similar factor structures, although there were significant differences in several factors when comparing scores. (Author/RC)

A variety of algorithms for analyzing covariance structures are considered. Additionally, two methods of estimation, maximum likelihood, and weighted least squares are considered. Comparisons are made between these algorithms and factor analysis. (Author/JKS)

The Peabody Individual Achievement Test was factor analyzed at five grade levels. Subtests composing each factor changed from the lower to upper grade levels, but abilities measured by each factor appeared constant. A close similarity between the two factors and Cattell's concept of fluid and crystallized intelligence was noted. (Author)

Explores the utility of reciprocal two-point code type classifications of Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) profiles and evaluates a second classification scheme based upon groupings of empirically and conceptually similar PIC code types. Results indicate a profile classification strategy can be usefully applied to PIC protocols. (Author)

Clients of both sexes were significantly less likely to return for more counseling when initially interviewed by male intake counselors than by female intake counselors. No significant relationships between return rate and counselor experience level or the decision to keep or to refer clients were observed. (Author)

Among the findings was that the factor structure of learning disabled children on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised was somewhat more fractionated and complex than for normals, but not as complex as for reading disabled children. (Author/DLS)

Seven frequently used measures were examined by construct validation to improve measures. Results of this research indicate that there is a construct, termed "life satisfaction," shared by six of the seven measures and that no existing instrument best encompasses that construct. The construct is composed of two factors. (Author)

Factor analysis of responses by 213 persons to Rabin's Child Study Inventory resulted in five reliable factors. These five, termed parental fatalism, parental nurturance, children's independence, parental instrumentalism, and children's happiness, are similar to Rabin's original four parental motives of altruism, fatalism, narcissism, and…

Traces changes in curriculums from conception to application by examining an educational program of the Volkswagen Foundation for Kindergarten and Basic School. (CK)

The aims of this note are (a) to present data that show current trends in the choice of factor rotation in clinical research; (b) to propose that oblique rotations are inadequately represented in this literature; and (c) to present specific guidelines for rotation in clinical research. (Author)

Investigations of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were conducted. A principal-components factor analysis yielded three psychologically meaningful factors: one A-Trait factor, Cognitive Anxiety, and two A-State factors, Negative Descriptors and Positive Descriptors. Other studies investigated the effects of two threats, on overall A-State…

While the term "learning disability" awaits clarification, the authors have mounted an interdisciplinary effort to identify and treat children who suffer the immature development syndromes that trigger underachievement in educational tasks. Describes "vulnerable" children, who were studied by the Learning Disorders Unit of New York University…

Data are presented concerning: (1) dimensions underlying interracial perceptions; (2) ways in which students see other-race schoolmates with respect to these perceptual dimensions; and (3) the accuracy of the interracial perceptions. (Author/RC)