Students (98) choosing careers in special education-behavior disorders or elementary education were given standardized tests to attempt to identify personality traits presented by good special education teachers of the behaviorally disordered. Subtests on teaching humanities and counseling/guidance of young people showed higher means for special…

Reviews three major measures of the concept of self-stability: the discrepancy measure, the syndromatic measure, and the longitudinal measure. Assesses their relative strengths as well as weaknesses. Suggests that the longitudinal measure may be used to check the degree of social desirability effect of the syndromatic measure. (Author)

This report summarizes findings from a study of the psychometric properties of the resilience and youth development module, a key component of the Healthy Kids Survey. The study aims to improve resilience assessment and research so that educators can shape the school environment to promote academic resilience. The Healthy Kids Survey (HKS) is a…

A study categorized self-perceptions of subjects regarding their feelings about initial communication interaction. Using Q-Technique, a total of 138 subjects, mostly students at a midsized, midwestern, urban university enrolled in interpersonal communication courses, were studied through the use of two structured Q-sorts containing statements…

To learn more about the relationship between personality type and the writing skills of college freshmen composition students, a study was conducted to explore the hypothesis that essays written by students who were N (intuitive) preference types would be judged better in overall quality than those written by S (sensing) preference types.…

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a measure of personality type and learning style, was used at Saint Louis University in the TRAILS (Tracking Retention and Academic Integration by Learning Style) Project. In addition to considering links between learning styles and student academic achievement and aptitude, MBTI was used to identify…

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) measures variations in normal personality. The validity of the measure has only recently been examined by analyses of the structure underlying MBTI responses; and these investigations have used exploratory factor analyses, rather than confirmatory factor analytic methods. A confirmatory factor analysis was…

A study involving 9 male and 109 female graduate students in educational psychology, who are or have been teachers, was conducted to investigate the relationship between teacher burnout and personality type, self-perceptions, and critical thinking ability. Subjects included 23 blacks and 95 whites, and the mean age of the sample population was…

Sixteen hundred and thirty white male adults living in the Upper Cumberland area of rural middle Tennessee were administered the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) to classify them by their degree of alcohol abuse into alcoholics, probable alcoholics, and non-alcoholics. These respondents had been referred by the courts to an educational…

A study hypothesized that significant relationships exist between personality traits and success in student teaching, and will be manifest between those students demonstrating definitive levels of personality trait characteristics identified as being related to success, and those who do not. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was administered…

Describes a new self-disclosure questionnaire devised to examine women's and men's willingness to disclose information about their "masculine" and "feminine" aspects. Applied to 156 undergraduates, the scale was found to be reliable and valid, and particularly useful when the concern is with the disclosure of instrumental and…

Six personality measures, measures of stress, self-reported health status and coping, and a measure of social desirability were administered to samples of college students and adults (n=589) in a series of four studies. Correlations among these measures and evidence for a higher order factor called Health Proneness factor are discussed. (SLD)

Summarizes a study where 668 students were given the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The questionnaire measures four features of personality: tough-mindedness, extraversion, emotionality, and lying. The study correlated personality traits to decisions regarding instrumental music study and choice of instrument. Includes tabular data on…

Bivariate and multivariate correlation analyses were used to investigate personality trait variables and their relation to DSM-IV symptomology in a clinically-identified sample of 142 Mexican-American adolescents. Personality variables were measured with the Personality Style subscales of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory. DSM-IV…

Perceptions of menstruating women were studied in a sample of 244, predominantly European American, college freshmen. Both women and men rated the menstruating woman, as compared with the average woman, as higher on the Neuroticism factor from Lippa's (1991) measure of the Big Five personality factors. Men also rated her as lower on the Openness,…