A measure of moral values has been introduced which seems sufficiently promising to warrant further use in research in this area. (Author)

Through the use of a self report measure, evidence was provided for the hypothesis that the tendency to adopt either the ethics of personal conscience or the ethics of social responsibility in relation to moral principles is a result of the adherent's underlying personality structure. (Author/KJ)

Discusses the relationship between human rule systems and social action. Evidence is presented which suggests that behavior dimensions can be objectively assessed and that the suggested model works well in predicting and explaining moral conduct. (Author/DEP)

Data from the California Psychological Inventory suggested that users were socially poised, open to experience, and concerned with the feelings of others. Conversely, they also seemed impulsive, pleasure seeking, and rebellious. Nonusers were responsible and rule abiding; however, they also tended to be inflexible, conventional, and narrow in…

Results suggest that important components in career level aspiration are related to the total personality styles of both parents and adolescents and further, that achievement motivation is more a function of the models children are exposed to than the training they receive. (Author/BJG)

Two samples of verbally gifted adolescents were tested using cognitive and personality measures. Although both groups were found to be unusually mature and well adjusted, they varied considerably in sociopolitical intelligence--the ability to formulate viable solutions to moral, social, and political problems. (Author/MV)

Fifty-four male undergraduates who has benn elected to Phi Beta Kappa were compared with 67 nonPhi Beta Kappas of approximately equal intellectual ability and with an unselected sample of undergraduates, using the California Phychological Inventory. These comparisons furnished the opportunity to interpret the personological correlates of superior…

The objective of this study was to investigate the personological factors underlying marijuana use in the college population. Under anonymous conditions, 148 students at two universities completed the California Psychological Inventory and a biographical questionnaire concerning drug usage. Four conclusions were reached: (1) marijuana use at two…