People with drinking problems are overrepresented in counseling settings. Counselors have been unable to identify accurately the problem drinker, resulting in a decrease in counselor effectiveness. Describes seven variables that help identify problem drinking and two variables that help diagnose alcoholism. Suggestions for conducting the…

Recorded activity level was not related to parental perception of activity level and did not differentiate children with differing behavioral styles. Parental perceptions of activity level significantly differentiated children's behavioral style. (Author/RH)

Developing leadership potential is a new challenge to educational organizations as the number of women and minorities increases. The author provides a model assessment instrument that includes scales for evaluation, observation, and personalized training opportunities. (MD)

Confirmed the relationship among identity achievement, value competence, and valuing fulfillment, in a study involving 99 college students. Suggested that identity status may reflect axiological maturity, but an increase in the level of such maturity is needed. (JAC)

Discriminated among four groups of male opiate-addicted reformatory inmates (N=193) according to degree of criminal violence using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Results showed that discriminant analysis was moderately successful for classifying Bodily Violent and Nonbodily Violent groups on the basis of their MMPI scores.…

The aim of the review is to discuss what the mind must be like for the psychoanalytic term like "the unconscious" to be meaningfully applied. Freud's two systems called the unconscious (Ucs.) and the preconscious-conscious (Pcs.-Cs.) are introduced and their replacement with alternative categories such as id, ego, and superego is…

Study was undertaken to assess the factorial validity of the RSAP by comparing the original scales with empirically determined ones. (Authors)

In the present investigation, the MMPI profile classification program was used to compare the representatives'' of three different sets of diagnostic prototypes. (Author)

Evidence for the reliability and validity of a paper-and-pencil personality inventory, the content of which is expressed entirely in terms of experiences of time and attitudes toward time, is presented. (Author)

A device to organize more objectively the behavior of students.'' (Editor)

The general findings support the utility of direct compared to indirect approaches to personality measurement. (Author)

The scales of the EPI have both a favorable and an unfavorable psychometric property which is related to the instructions and format of the inventory. (Author)

Factor scores denoting likelihood of becoming personal-problem clients of a counseling center were developed by means of criterion analysis for an entire freshman class. Invitations offering interpretation of orientation tests scores were accepted by a greater percentage of students whose personal-problem factor scores indicated greater likelihood…