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Item A study of the relationship between attrition, selected study habits variables and personality types of entering college freshmen(Texas Tech University, 1979-12) Dansby, Gloria FNot availableItem An exploration of Holland's personality types and associated religious orientations(Texas Tech University, 1988-05) Thorley, WarrenJohn L. Holland has developed a comprehensive theory of personality types with broad empirical support. The primary application of the theory has been in the vocational realm, but the theory has implications for a variety of other domains including avocational interests, values, self-concept and religious orientation. The present investigation examines relationships between Holland's personality styles and religious orientation. Religious orientation was operationalized by an integration of Gordon Allport's extrinsic and intrinsic religious orientations with Batson and Ventis' means, end, and quest orientations. Kreml's two-dimensional model of ideological style and cognitive style was utilized to account for associations between religious orientation and personality style. The ideological style dimension was measured by the Conservatism Scale (CS). The cognitive style dimension was assessed by the Dogmatism Scale (DS). A 2x3 factorial MANOVA with religious orientation and gender as classification variables and Holland's personality styles as dependent variables demonstrated statistically significant main effects for religious orientation and gender. ANOVAs with comparison of means revealed that students with a quest orientation display more Artistic characteristics than students with an end orientation. Additionally, means oriented individuals display more Conventional attributes than quest oriented individuals. CS was negatively correlated with Artistic personality style and positively correlated with the end orientation, suggesting that the Artistic style is manifested in the quest orientation by a rejection of traditional beliefs with a preference for an independent, creative search for answers. The association of the Conventional style with the means orientation appears to be based on an acceptance of traditional beliefs in conjunction with a preference for authority and structure. A positive correlation of DS with the means and end orientations links both of these approaches with a dogmatic cognitive style. The end orientation was associated with high religious interest, church attendance and a conservative outlook on life, in contrast to the quest orientation which reflected relatively less formal religious involvement and a more liberal outlook. The majority of the sample reported that religious beliefs influenced educational/vocational decisions. The relevance of these findings for counseling and research was explored.Item Coronary heart disease, Jungian psychological traits and a college based primary care paradigm(Texas Tech University, 1987-05) Roberts, Ernest ENot availableItem Jungian psychological traits and personal perceived values associated with university band affiliation(Texas Tech University, 1982-05) Tucker, Albert BriggsStudents elect to sustain band affiliation for reasons that may be related to their psychological traits and their personal perceived values of band affiliation. The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was used to measure the psychological traits of band students. A forced-ranking instrument, designed by the researcher, was used to identify students' personal perceived values of band affiliation. In addition, band students reported their primary musical instrument played in the band, sex, and academic major. The concert bands at Texas Tech University, the Hardin-Simmons Cowboy Band, and the 198 0 high school summer band camp at Texas Tech were studied, numbering 351 students. The data generated were used to compare the relationship of psychological traits to perceived values of band affiliation between university and high school students, music and nonmusic majors, female and male, and the musical instruments represented in the band. Significant correlations were found between the Jungian psychological traits of band members and their personal perceived values of band affiliation. There were no significant differences detected between music and nonmusic majors when categorized by psychological traits, but differences were detected when categorized by the rank order of personal perceived values. Significant differences were found between females and males in their psychological trait preferences. The high school band students differed significantly from the university band students in their ranking of the personal perceived values. Significant differences were also found between the trait preferences when categorized by musical instruments.Item Relationship of alcoholic subtypes to treatment outcome(Texas Tech University, 1985-05) Roberts, Samuel JosephThe present study represents an extension of previous research on alcoholic personality subtypes and their response to treatment for alcoholism. Alcoholics, in the present study, were subtyped according to the presence or absence of coexisting psychiatric syndromes similar to those described in DSM III (APA, 1980). The Psychiatric Diagnostic Interview (Othmer, Penick & Powell, 1981) was used to diagnose alcoholics and three prominent subtypes were identified. These included Primary alcoholics (with no history of psychiatric syndromes), Depressed alcoholics (with a history of major depression) and Antisocial alcoholics (with a history of antisocial personality). These three subtypes were then compared on their response to treatment for alcoholism. Subjects in the present study were 84 male veterans who participated in a traditional 28 day inpatient treatment program for alcoholism. Subjects in each subtype were compared on a variety of treatment outcome measures one year following treatment including post-treatment alcohol consumption, social-occupational functioning, emotional problems and health care problems associated with drinking. Results indicate that Primary alcoholics experienced fewer emotional and health care problems following treatment than other subtypes. No differences between subtypes were found for post-treatment alcohol consumption or social-occupational functioning. The present findings suggest that alcoholics with no psychiatric history may respond more positively to treatment for alcoholism than alcoholics who exhibit significant psychopathology such as major depression or antisocial personality disorder. Results of the present study also indicate that the presence or absence of coexisting psychopathology may be an important moderator variable that may have a significant influence on response to treatment among alcoholics.Item Relationships between work and love scales(Texas Tech University, 1990-05) Willis, Shirley Anne MooreHolland's theory of vocational choice (1985a) postulates most people can be categorized as one of 6 vocational personality types. Similarly, Hendrick and Hendrick's (1986) love theory postulates most people can be described by one of 6 love styles. If Holland's vocational personalities represent a broad set of personality characteristics, then people should show overlap of vocational values with other values. To test for possible overlap between values associated with vocational interests and love styles, the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Love Attitude Scale (LAS) were administered to 146 women and 117 men. A principal component factor analysis of the VPI and LAS yielded four factors. The first and second factors were defined separately by the VPI and LAS scales respectively, suggesting that the VPI and LAS measure separate aspects of personality. A third factor was comprised of 2 vocational interest scales and 1 love style scale, while the fourth factor consisted of 2 love style scales and one vocational interest scale. These results, related measures of social involvement, gender differences, and mediating effects of being in or not being in love are discussed and suggestions for future research are derived from the results.Item The biopsychology of the weather matrix: an evaluation of psychomotor behavior and mood states as a function of ionization polarity and cognitive-personality dimensions(Texas Tech University, 1982-05) DeSanctis, MichaelWhile the science of biometeorology has refined our understanding of the effects of weather on the body's regulatory systems, until recently little scientific attention was given to the role of weather in altering mood states and reaction time. The present investigation was an effort to substantiate the serotonin-activation model advanced by Charry. This model predicts that short-term exposure to positive ions will result in significant though short-lived changes in reticular activation. Hence, a person so exposed would display accelerated vigilance decrement, slower reaction times, irritability, and greater fatigue, It was hypothesized that negative ions would exert opposite effects. With N = 24, a repeated-measures factorial design was utilized in order to assess simultaneously the relationships between extraversion-introversion, field dependence-independence and ion polarity/concentration on performance, and self-report of fatigue, tension, depression, vigor, confusion, and anger. Analysis of variance on the outcome data revealed that contrary to the experimental hypotheses, both positive and negative ionization induced higher self-ratings of depression. There was no clear-cut relationship between standing on the subject dimensions and behavior under ionization conditions. However, a significant ionization x vigilance period interaction for siraple reaction time data emerged, as predicted. When the data for weather sensitivity were examined (weather sensitives respond with changes in serotonin metabolism as a function of ionization) significant weather sensitivity x ionization and weather sensitivity x ionization x vigilance period interactions emerged. Weather sensitivity was a fair predictor of vigilance performance and self-report of affect. Despite the number of non-significant findings, some data supported the relationship between weather sensitivity and performance under ionization levels. However, the weather sensitivity dimension did not tap sensitivity to air electricity. On balance, the data did not provide consistent or robust support for the ionization model..Item The effects of a sex-roles course on four sex-role related measures(Texas Tech University, 1981-08) McGrogan, Catherine AnnNot availableItem The relationship between Jungian psychological traits and performance on the National Examination in Speech Pathology(Texas Tech University, 1980-05) Middleton, Grace FrederickNot availableItem The relationship between student evaluation ratings of instructors and Jungian psychological types: of both community college instructors and community college students(Texas Tech University, 1980-05) Watson, Victor BurnellNot availableItem The relationship of Jungian psychological traits and the effects of comparative advertising(Texas Tech University, 1982-05) Johnson, Ronald DaleNot available