Growth in Self-Actualization (Personal Orientation Inventory) in Adult Encounter Groups

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Les Beach
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Total Sample Size ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Personal Orientation

To test the efficacy of the Personal Orientation Inventory in assessing growth in self-actualization in relation to encounter groups and to provide a more powerful measure of such changes, pre- and posttest data from 3 highly comparable encounter groups (N = 43) were combined for analysis. Results indicated that the Personal Orientation Inventory is a sensitive instrument for assessing personal growth in encounter groups and that a larger total sample size provides more significant results than those reported for small samples (e. g., fewer than 15 participants).

Effect of a Personal Growth Group on Self-Actualization of Female Gymnasts

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bud A. Mc Clure ◽  
Kathy L. Holladay ◽  
Constance D. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
Female Gymnasts

No statistically significant increase in scores on the Personal Orientation Inventory were noted, but scores increased some on nine of 12 subscales for eight gymnasts who participated in weekly meetings of a personal growth group during their season, but not for seven control gymnasts.

Personal Growth in CPE

1977 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Geary ◽  
Thomas F. Geary
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Concept Inventory ◽  
Pastoral Education ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
Statistical Results

Personal growth (Self-Actualization) as an effect of Clinical Pastoral Education was investigated. 101 subjects participated. The Personal Orientation Inventory and the Christie Self-Concept Inventory were given before and after the quarter, and, again, after one month. A demographic questionnaire and a limited number of personal interviews were used. Statistical results are favorable to the hypothesis that CPE is an effective procedure for fostering personal growth. This growth seems to diminish upon completion of the quarter, with the exception of the desire to be self-actualized which doesn't lessen over time.

Farmers Sustainability and Social Justice: Evidences of Land Inequalities in Uttar Pradesh

2020 ◽  
pp. 232-238
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
Land Fragmentation ◽  
Total Sample Size ◽  
Fragmentation Index ◽  
State Economy

The present study is an attempt to inspect the aspect of social justice among the farmers in terms of fragmented land and farmers’ distress in Uttar Pradesh. The data were obtained through field survey via interview scheduled. A sample of 80 respondents from each targeted village namely, Jansar, Sithauli, Charsoni, and Jonai were selected from each region of Uttar Pradesh state economy. Thus, the study used a total sample size of 320 samples. Simmons index (1968) for canvassing the land fragmentation index (LFI) was applied in the Uttar Pradesh context. Further distress was measured via the help of ratios. It flaunted causes and degrees of distress were relatively high among marginal and small farmers. The result of LFI confirms that high fragmentation was a cause of subsistence income among marginal and small farms compared to semi-medium, and medium farms.

A Jesus Community in South Africa: Self-Actualization or Need for Security?

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Stones
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
The Self ◽  
Home Language ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Jesus Movement ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Personal Orientation

22 members of the Jesus movement in Johannesburg, South Africa, were presented with Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory, to assess perceived changes in self-actualization as a function of their religious conversion. The control group, comprising 22 mainstream-church denominational members who had not undergone rapid and emotional conversions, was matched with the Jesus People for age, sex, home-language, and occupation of father. The self-perceptions of the Jesus People were significantly mote self-actualizing than were those of the members of the control group in the before-conversion condition. Perceived self-actualization decreased as a function of their religious experience. It is also suggested that the reported changes may be due to a “rising expectations” effect.

Self-Actualization and Personal Autonomy

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1263-1266 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Walter Bordages
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Reasoning Ability ◽  
Ability Test ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Reasoning Test ◽  
Treatment Conditions ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Performance Analyses ◽  
Personal Orientation

Self-actualizing individuals, according to Maslow (1954), are hypothesized to operate autonomously of external expectations due to their undistorted perceptions of their own realistic abilities. Scores on the Personal Orientation Inventory, a measure of self-actualization, were used to divide subjects into high, medium, or low self-actualizing categories. Subjects were given a Logical Reasoning Ability Test over three treatment conditions: high, low, and no expectations with regard to performance. Analyses indicated greater personal autonomy for high and moderate self-actualizing subjects than in nonself-actualizing subjects, who showed the greatest variance in their reasoning test scores.

Sensitivity Training and Self-Actualization

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Gilligan
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Training ◽  
External Influences ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Student Volunteers ◽  
Personal Orientation

50 T-group volunteers who experienced a 24-hr. sensitivity training weekend were compared with a group of 55 student volunteers who had no training. Both groups responded to the Personal Orientation Inventory, a measure of self-actualization, in a pre-post, 6-wk., follow-up design. The T-groups were led by 10 paraprofessionals. Volunteers were found after training to be guided more by their own internal values, feelings and goals, and less controlled by external influences than were nonparticipants. This level of inner directedness or self-actualization was still significantly higher 6 wk. after the training weekend.

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