The common import component scoring of the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule

Development of a new method of scoring the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule to yield component scores for each variable. Applications to clinical practice, research, and teaching are described.     

Self-other orientations and the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule.

Because the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) confounds the respondent's self and other-orientations, it was modified to measure both orientations on each of the 15 personality variables. Thirty-seven university students and their spouses were administered the modified EPPS. Their reliability was significantly higher than Edwards reports for his college student sample which was given his standard instrument. Also, the respondents were shown to have different preferences for themselves than for others, both over-all and for specific scales on the modified instrument.     

College Major Choice and Personal Adjustment

This investigation focused on the differences in reported personal adjustment problems between freshmen students who made a congruent college major choice and students who made an incongruent choice. Personal adjustment was defined operationally with the Mooney Problem Checklist. Congruent and incongruent college major choice groups were defined operationally using the Vocational Preference Inventory. In the analysis of variance of the adjustment scores, the interaction term involving congruence of major choice and sex and the test for the main effect of sex were not significant. The test for the main effect of congruence was found to be significant. Subjects who had made a congruent college major choice reported fewer personal adjustment problems when compared to subjects in the incongruent group.     

Relationships between the Vocational Preference Inventory and the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule

The Vocational Preference Inventory and the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule were administered to 372 undergraduates. The two instruments were compared using canonical analysis. The analysis revealed three significant relationships between components of the two instruments. The relationships were viewed as supportive of Holland's theory of personality types.     

A Note on the Age of Marriage and Size of Family of two Comparable Vocational Groups

Summary

In a 4 × 2 design the effects of utility and attitudinal-supportiveness of information on message selection were tested. From data obtained in the pretest session, subjects were assigned to one of four Prior Attitude levels (Strongly Anti, Anti, Pro, Strongly Pro), and required to make either a Proabortion or an Antiabortion speech. Statements for and against legalized abortion were reproduced on slides which subjects selected and viewed to prepare their speeches. Unobtrusive measures of the proportion of Proabortion slides viewed and the proportion of time spent viewing Proabortion slides constituted the major dependent variables of the study. A main effect of information utility was hypothesized, and this expectation was strongly supported (p < .001). Within each speech condition subjects were expected to prefer attitudinally supportive information. This hypothesized additivity of supportive and useful information was evident (p < .002) for subjects assigned to make Proabortion speeches, but insignificant differences were obtained for subjects assigned Antiabortion speeches.     

A Brief,Collaborative-Structured Approach for Personal Development Groups

A brief, collaborative-structured approach to group counseling was evaluated. The technique specifically differs from traditional development groups in that the content was chosen and the group norms established in the context of a structured and limited framework. The results indicate that this approach may be a viable alternative for understaffed counseling centers.