Relationship of the Community Adaptation Schedule and the Personal Orientation Inventory: Two measures of positive mental health

1974 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Darrel E. Harris ◽  
Timothy R. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Mental Health ◽  
Community Adaptation ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
Relationship Of

Effects of Fictional, Autobiographical and Self-Help Literature on Personality Measures

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Scholz ◽  
James J. Forest
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Reading Condition ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Group Reading ◽  
Personal Orientation

This study evaluated three types of books under different reading conditions and using two measures of personality. Data from 163 women were analyzed in a 3 × 2 × 2 multivariate design, with control groups, which varied type of book (fiction, autobiography, self-help), reading condition (supervised and unsupervised), and order of testing (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Personal Orientation Inventory). None of the groups who received books to read had mean scores significantly different from those of the control groups. However, the group reading the self-help book had significantly higher scores on scales of self-actualization than the groups using fictional or autobiographical books.

Self-Actualization as Related to Frequency, Range, and Pattern of Religious Experience

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship of frequency, range, and pattern of religious experience to self-actualization. The Religious Experience Measure (REM), a paper and pencil instrument, was constructed to provide measures of Stark's confirming, responsive, ecstatic, and revelational experiences. Validity and reliability studies yielded favorable results. In a classroom setting, the 401 undergraduates who comprised the sample were administered the Personal Data Sheet (PDS), the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI), and the REM. Results showed that high and low self-actualizers alike have religious experiences and that such experiences cannot inherently be viewed as either symptoms of pathology or evidence of positive mental health. However, frequency, range, and pattern are dimensional aspects of religious experience which are differentially related to self-actualization.

The “How” Question of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Understanding Psychosocial Resources and Demands as Pathways Linking Migration to Mental Health Risks

2020 ◽  
pp. 215686932091309
Author(s):  
Fei-Ju Yang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Migrant Health ◽  
Positive Mental Health ◽  
Psychosocial Resources ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Major Pathway ◽  
Piecewise Regression ◽  
Two Measures

The current migrant health literature tends to focus on what determines immigrants’ mental health rather than how pathways such as psychosocial resources mediate the relationship between years since migration and mental health. Based on 4,282 foreign-born Canadian immigrant samples, this study includes both psychological distress and positive mental health as mental health measures because immigrants do not necessarily respond to stress by exhibiting distress. The correlation between psychological distress and positive mental health shows that these two measures are interrelated but distinctive concepts. Using piecewise regression models, this study finds that midterm immigrants have the highest levels of psychological distress and interpersonal strain. Guided by the stress process model, this study indicates that interpersonal strain acts as a major pathway to immigrants’ psychological distress but not positive mental health.

Effects on Self-Actualization of Paperbacks about Psychological Self-Help

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1243-1246
Author(s):  
James J. Forest
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Treatment Condition ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Treatment Conditions ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
Time Competence

Self-help psychology books contain claims that they can help individuals solve personal and social problems. However, there is little research on the efficacy of these books although theory and data from traditional, and behavioristic, bibliotherapy suggests that they might be valuable. This study examined the effects of self-help paperbacks on self-actualization scores in a 2 X 3 design that varied presence or absence of a pretest on the Personal Orientation Inventory and an intervening treatment condition which involved reading either one of two self-help books or reading no book. Self-actualization was measured by a posttest on the inventory. Significant effects were found for the pretest and treatment conditions on both the Inner-directedness and Time competence scales. The presence of a pretest, and both self-help books, led to higher self-actualization scores. These findings support the hypothesis that reading self-help psychology books may be associated with increased self-reported scores of mental health.

Spatio-Temporal Displacement and Expression of Feeling in Dreams of Emotionally Expressive Persons

1980 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 455-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Kuiken ◽  
Russell Powell
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The present study examined the relationship of expression of feeling during waking to expression of feeling and spatio-temporal displacement in dreams. 41 subjects, each of whom collected either one or two dreams ac home, rated their dreams for expression of feeling, familiarity, and time passed since last experience with selected dream features. They then completed the Personal Orientation Inventory. An independent judge's ratings of expression of feeling in dreams was also obtained. Contrary to expectations, no significant correlations were found between the indices of expression of feeling (Feeling Reactivity, Spontaneity, Aggression) and either the subjects' or the judge's ratings of such expression in dreams. Further, the inventory indices of expression of feeling correlated positively and significantly with spatio-temporal displacement in dreams. These results contradict the theory of Corriere, Hart, Karle, Binder, Gold, and Woldenberg (1977), according to which expression of feeling is inversely related to spario-remporal displacement in dreams. An alternative hypothesis, capable of explaining the present and other research results, implicates expression of feeling in the process of integrating recent events with more remote memories.

Self-Actualization and Conceptual Structure

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 672-672
Author(s):  
Jon A. Hageseth ◽  
Lyle D. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Discrimination Test ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Integration Test ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Interpersonal Discrimination ◽  
Personal Orientation

Many theorists have written about personality structures associated with positive mental health (2, 3). Conceptual systems theory provides one framework for identifying these structures (5). The purpose of this study was to replicate Wexler's finding that self-actualization is related to conceptual structure for 117 female undergraduates who completed four measures of conceptual structure and a measure of self-actualization not used in the original Wexler study, the Personal Orientation Inventory. The measures of conceptual structure included the Interpersonal Discrimination Test (1), the Wyer Integration Test (6), the Interpersonal Topical Inventory (4), and the Paragraph Completion Tesr.

Relationship of Kinesthetic Figural Aftereffect to Masculinity-Femininity and Expectation for Internal versus External Control of Reinforcement

1970 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 863-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph G. Phelan ◽  
Richard Brooks ◽  
Gladys C. Brashears
Keyword(s):  
Psychology Students ◽  
External Control ◽  
Hand Dominance ◽  
Personality Tests ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
Relationship Of

60 introductory psychology students (30 male, 30 female) were administered KFAE in ascending and descending trials, using both dominant and non-dominant hands, followed by an embedded-figures test and 145 items from personality tests (Masculinity-Femininity scale of Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey, Rotter I-E Scale, and the combined self-actualization scale of Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory). Hand dominance but not sex affected KFAE. No stable relation appeared between the personality measures and spatial aftereffect from kinesthetic stimulation for men or women.

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