Showing papers on "Personality test published in 1979"

Psychopathy and personality: The dimensionality of self‐report and behaviour rating data in abnormal offenders

Abstract: Factor analyses of personality test data in two samples of offenders admitted to psychiatric security hospitals yielded two higher order factors identified as psychopathy or antisocial aggression versus conformity, and social withdrawal versus sociability. One sample was also rated for ward behaviour by nursing staff, and similar factors emerged from the behaviour rating data. The self-report dimension of psychopathy correlated significantly with the corresponding rating dimension at the time of admission and, for medicated subjects only, with ratings obtained 2 years later. Cross-media convergence of the withdrawal dimension was not found at the time of admission, but for unmedicated subjects, initial self-reports correlated significantly with the equivalent rating dimension as assessed 2 years later. The two dimensions therefore appear to measure meaningful behavioural dispositions. While they define the same dimensional space as neuroticism and introversion--extraversion, they appear to provide a more appropriate framework for classification within this population of offenders.

Self indentified personality patterns of children with facial or orthopedic disfigurement.

Abstract: This study compared personality characteristics of children with cleft lip and palate to another group of children with different observable physical impairment (orthopedic disability) and speech difficulties. It was hypothesized that different types of observable physical stigmata may result in different personality adaptations. Forty-five children from each of two groups (25 males and 20 females) were matched for sex, age, and intelligence. They were compared using the Missouri Children's Picture Series, a non-verbal personality test, on the following dimensions: Conformity, Masculinity/Femininity, Maturity, Agression, Inhibition, Activity Level Sleep Disturbance and Somatization. The results indicate that males with cleft lip and palate are significantly higher on Maturity and Inhibition while Orthopedically Disabled males are higher on Agression, Activity Level, and Somatization. Cleft lip and palate females are significantly higher on Maturity and Inhibition while Orthopedically Disabled females are higher on Masculinity. The results indicate differential personality adaptations in the two different types of observable physical impairments. Results are discussed in terms of their relationship to selected psychosocial variables.

Concurrent validity of the missouri children's picture series

Abstract: Administered the Missouri Children's Picture Series, a nonverbal objective test of personality to a group of normal (N = 119) children and a group of institutionalized (N = 77) aggressive children. Several of the test scales differed significantly between the two groups. The test scales of Aggression and Maturity showed the most consistent and largest differences; the institutionalized children scored, as a group, higher on Aggression and lower on Maturity Level. IQ was found to be unrelated to test scores among the normal children, but was related significantly to personality test scores among the institutionalized children. Language: en

The effects of personality traits on Memory-For-Designs performance.

Abstract: Examined 241 Memory-For-Designs protocols for the drawing styles of closure difficulty, figure-size expansion, and figure-size constriction. Chi squares then were employed to compare those data with the personality traits of the Ss. Personality traits were assessed through use of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire. The major conclusion drawn from the data analysis was that regardless of his or her personality trait, a S will perform like most other Ss in relation to Memory-For-Designs test behavior. The Ss were university students between the ages of 18 and 23, male or female, who were U. S. citizens attending Emporia State University. Initially, Ss were given the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire in groups. Ss who met sample qualifications on the personality test were asked to return for an individual follow-up test with the Memory-For-Designs.

Iranian subjects' responses as ideal person on the Eysenck Personality Inventory.

Abstract: St~rnnzdry.-54 Iranian subjects (28 males, 26 females) were assigned randomly with the restriction of equal representation by sex into two groups. Instructions to fake an ideal person's responses were given to one group (n = 27) and standard instructions to the control group (n = 27) for a Persian translation of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. The former scored significantly lower on Neuroticism and higher on the Lie scale than did the controls. There were no significant differences between males and females on the three scales of this inventory under either instructions. Replication on a larger group is required. Cultural differences on intellectual and personality factors have been srudied but relatively few studies have been done about how specific personality dimensions are affected in other cultures when subjects try to give an ideal impression. Braun and Costantini (1970) and Braun and Asta (1969) found that "good-impression" faking instructions produced significant changes on many scales of the Personality Research Form. According to Braun and Gomez ( 1966) scores significantly decreased on Neuroticism and significantly increased on Lie scale when subjeccs were given instructions to give a good impression of themselves. Star ( 1962 ) administered the Maudsley Personality Inventory and found that favorable faking instructions produced a significant decrease in Neuroticism and a significant increase in Extroversion. Harvey and Carl (1976) .administered the MMPI to undergraduate subjeccs and asked one group to imagine that they were applying for a job and another group to imagine that they were applying for psychotherapy. Subjects in the job group dissimulated, and those in the therapy group malingered. Skinner, Howarth, and Browne (1970) found that instructions to fake a "nice personality" on the Eysenck Personality Inventory produced a significant decrease in Neuroticism, and significant increase in Extroversion and Lie scales. As images of the ideal person in different cultures vary, the direction and extent of distortion might differ from one culture to another when subjects are asked to fake ideal on a personality test. The purpose of the present studypwas to investigate the possible effects of instructions to fake an ideal person and to determine whether there are differences between males and females.

Handwriting and security-insecurity

Abstract: (1) Lemke and Kirchner (1971) found that students who omitted i-dots were more secure on a personality test than those who did not. To test the reliability of this finding, 104 students in a course on introductory psychology (45 males and 59 females, mean age 19.0 yr., SD = 1.6) copied a paragraph and took the SecurityInsecurity Inventory (Maslow, 1945) anonymously. his inventory is a standardized 75-item inventory to measure the feeling of security, which Maslow defined as synonymous with mental health. Females who omitted i-dots scored as more secure than those who did not; respective means were 17.5 and 24.6, SD = 10.9 and 14.1 (t = 2.03, df = 55, p < .05). Maslow reported the fifth decile for scores as 18-20, higher scores indicating insecurity. Males who omitted i-dots did not differ in their security scores from those who did not omit i-dots (M = 21.2 and 22.4; t = 0.34, df = 40). Males were more likely to omit i-dots than females (55% versus 32%; X2 = 4.44, df = 1, p < .05). Incidentally, height of i-dot above the "in was not related to security scores in either sex. Here, the psychological correlate of missing i-dots reported by Lemke and Kirchner was replicated for females only. (2) Lester and McLaughlin (1976) compared males whose writing was judged as feminine by naive judges and males with masculine writing and found no differences in Neuroticism scores on the Eysenck Personalicy Inventory. Similar negative results were found for females. The samples of writing from the present students were classified as male or female by three naive social scientists. The number of correct classifications for each subject was not significantly correlated with his score on Maslow's inventory (for