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Item A study of the relationship between community college faculty Jungian personality types and selected instructional variables(Texas Tech University, 1979-05) McBride, Michael HansonNot availableItem An evaluation of multiple behavioral criteria and moderator variables for the improvement of cross-situational prediction of behavior(Texas Tech University, 1981-08) Allen, Roger DeanNot availableItem Black-white differences on the faking indexes of the MMPI in a prison sample(Texas Tech University, 1982-05) Johnson, Philip L..Item Characteristics of Rorschach interpreter types: an exploratory study(Texas Tech University, 1971-05) Keller, Charles WilliamNot availableItem Clients' perception of clinically relevant dimensions of specific and nonspecific personality feedback(Texas Tech University, 1983-05) Boyle, Thomas LNot availableItem Cognitive processing and personality traits in anorexia nervosa(Texas Tech University, 1985-12) Laubgross, Janet RebeccaAnorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder which is characterized by: weight loss of at least 25% of original body weight, which is not due to a physical illness; intense fear of becoming obese; disturbance of body image; and refusal to maintain weight over a minimal normal weight for height and age (American Psychiatric Association, 1980). Previous cognitive research has found that anorexics are deficient in certain types of processing tasks (Fox, 1981; Strupp, Weingartner, Gwirtsman, & Kaye, in press; Witt, Ryan, & Hsu, 1985). Studies of personality attributes in anorexia nervosa have demonstrated that anorexics are obsessive, depressed, and anxious (cf. Hendren, 1983; Piran, Kennedy, Garfinkel, & Owens, 1985; Solyom, Freeman, Thomas, & Miles, 1983). The current study was designed to assess anorexics' performance on a variety of cognitive tasks, various personality measures, and to investigate a possible link between personality attributes and cognitive performance. Five memory tasks and eight personality scales were administered to 21 anorexia nervosa outpatients and A3 controls. The anorexics did not demonstrate a disadvantage in cognitive performance compared to the controls; instead, they showed superior ability on a verbal free recall task in which the words were all derived from a single superordinate category. For the personality measures, the anorexics scored significantly higher than the controls on measures of state depression, trait anxiety, state anxiety, and trait anger. They scored significantly lower than the controls on a measure of trait curiosity. Further analyses revealed that state depression and trait anxiety were the personality attributes that best predict anorexia nervosa. Very few results of importance were found by correlating the cognitive scores with the personality variables. The current investigation does not support the belief that outpatient anorexics are deficient compared to controls for the cognitive tasks studied. This study also demonstrates that anorexics have a multitude of personality and emotional problems, the most notable of which are depression and anxiety. These personality and emotional difficulties are important to consider in the treatment of anorexia nervosa.Item Consistency in personality(Texas Tech University, 1976-05) Green, Michael BarryIn this first chapter the major areas of concern to this investigation are set forth. In the first section, some central theoretical and practical differences between psychodynamic and social behavioral approaches to personality are presented. The following sections consider Walter Mischel's criticisms of the utility of traditional psychodynamic clinical procedures. They review the research relevant to these traditional procedures. The final section states the issues that will be addressed by the hjrpotheses of this work.Item Holland personality types among learning disabled and nonlearning disabled high school students(Texas Tech University, 1985-05) Cummings, Rhoda ElizabethNot availableItem Nomothetic versus idiographic personality research: a compromise proposal(Texas Tech University, 1983-08) Mellina, Richard EllisTrait psychology has dominated the field of personality for the past 50 years, and has been the predominant model in personality research (Endler & Magnusson, 1976; Magnusson & Endler, 1977). Traits have been construed as stable, consistent attributes which "exert generalized and enduring causal effects on behavior" (Mischel, 1968, p. 8). The stability of these traits suggests that an individual's behavior should be consistent across both different situations and across time (Mischel, 1968, 1973). Traits, then, have been seen as broad underlying dimensions of personality on which individuals can be expected to differ.Item Reciprocal effects of acceptance of personality feedback and computer attitudes(Texas Tech University, 1987-05) Martin, Max RNot availableItem Scale development and construct validation of a chimpanzee rating scale(2010-08) Freeman, Hani; Gosling, Sam; Josephs, Robert A.; Beevers, Christopher G.; Lewis, Rebecca J.; Nehete, PramodThe last two decades have seen a surge in published research on primate personality. This surge contrasts with the paucity of research over the preceding century. People interested in primate personality research come from a broad range of fields, but they are all interested in measuring primate personality in a way that is reliable, valid, and practical. This dissertation aims to describe the development and evaluation of the construct validity of a new rating scale in chimpanzees. The scale is based on a bottom-up approach to scale development and was developed using steps from both Uher (2008a,b) and Gosling (1998). As described in Chapter 3, the scale was evaluated by using it to rate 143 chimpanzees at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Facility in Bastrop, TX. Twenty-one people who have worked with the chimpanzees between 6 months to 20 years rated the chimpanzees. Chapter 4 describes how inter-class correlation coefficients (ICCs) were used to calculate the reliability of the items on the scale. There was only one item (predictable) that turned out to not be reliable. The other 40 items were included in subsequent analyses. An exploratory factor analysis, as described in Chapter 5, was performed in order to determine the structure underlying the scale. Five methods were used to determine that a six-factor solution fit the data best. The six factors were labeled Reactivity, Dominance, Openness, Extroversion Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness based on the degree to that they correlated with other previous chimpanzees scales that used those labels. The convergent and discriminant validity of the factors was evaluated, as described in Chapter 6, by looking at the predicted relationships between each of the six factors and the variables of sex, age, rearing history, behavior in reaction to a novel stimulus, general behavior, injuries, illnesses, blood chemistry, and cortisol. The results indicate that there is a lack of evidence for convergent validity, but some evidence for discriminant validity of the new chimpanzee rating scale. The discussion in Chapter 7 focuses on the findings from the study as well as strengths and limitations of the new chimpanzee rating scale.Item Students' perception of the clinically relevant dimensions of actual, trivial, and inaccurate personality feedback(Texas Tech University, 1980-12) Harris, Mitchell EdwardNot availableItem The development of an MMPI based scale to measure personal responsibility(Texas Tech University, 1983-12) Federman, Robert WilliamThe idea that humans are responsible for themselves is founded in existential philosophy and has been considered basic to mental health by writers of various persuasions. The purpose of the study was to develop and provisionally validate a self-report instrument to measure this concept. A definition of personal responsibility was derived which synthesized the ideas of Glassar, Rotter, and Ganthner, and included the elements of personal accountability, capability, and unselfishness. To operationalize this construct, 125 items were selected from the item pool of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) which seemed to relate to the derived definition of personal responsibility and ware sorted by 20 judges from various disciplines resulting in an initial personal responsibility (PRE) scale of 58 items at 80% interjudge agreement. The PRE scale was intended as a special MMPI scale rather than for independent use. To assess its psychometric qualities, 132 Anglo-American males between the ages of 18 and 55 hospitalized at two state hospitals for treatment of alcoholism ware administered the MMPI with the imbedded PRE scale and were also given the I-E Scale and Purpose in Life Test. Subjects ware concurrently rated by hospital staff using the MACC Behavioral Adjustment Scale - Revised. Two supplemental subject groups consisted of 38 outpatient alcoholic and 30 normal Anglo males who ware given identical tasting but not behaviorally rated. While good reliabilities for the PRE scale were obtained, the behavioral ratings were unrelated to the PRE scale or the other standardized measures. However, moderate to high correlations were obtained between the PRE scale and several standardized MMPI scales and the I-E Scale and Purpose in Life Test, and there were significant differences on PRE scale scores between hospitalized alcoholics and the two supplemental subject groups. The findings provided only tentative support for the PRE scale. In addition, high correlations with several standardized empirically derived MMPI scales raised the issue of scale redundancy which could have been fatal to further PRE scale development had the scale not been based on item content. Substantially more research will be needed with other subject groups before the PRE scale can be adequately evaluated.Item The influence of word choice on indirect personality perception formation in small groups.(Texas Tech University, 1975-08) Clanton, Frances ElaineNot availableItem The interpersonal basis of psychodiagnostics: a construct validity study of Millon's biosocial theory of psychopathology(Texas Tech University, 1981-12) Emmett, Frank ENot availableItem The Texas Tech Relationship Interaction Scale (TTRIS): development of a relationship interaction measure for couples(Texas Tech University, 1998-05) Shumway, Sterling T.The most widely used measures of marital satisfaction are global in nature, relying on a heterogeneous mix of items that measure both behavior and satisfaction. Mixing behavior and satisfaction presents problems in that satisfaction scores provide no specific information regarding particular behaviors. When behavioral information is obtained, it is confounded with satisfaction responses. The goal of this dissertation was to develop an instrument (Texas Tech Relationship Interaction Scale; TTRIS) that allows for the measurement of partnership behaviors. The TTRIS is a 36-item instrument with 6 scales representing important relationship behaviors:(1) Salutary Recognition, (2) Ego-Building Comments, (3) Expanding Shared Memories, (4) Exciting Activities, (5) Feedback, and (6) Small-Talk.