Psychological Dynamics and Self-Perceptions of Vasectomy Candidates

1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 1004-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Hamersma ◽  
Clarke Miller ◽  
Thomas Anderegg ◽  
Bonnie Rudolph
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Tubal Ligation ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Check List ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Irreversible Nature

Growing concern with population control has focused attention on various methods of contraception including vasectomy. Psychological research on this topic is scant, however. In this study, 9 vasectomy candidates who were undergoing the operation were compared to 9 husbands whose wives were about to have a tubal ligation. Their responses on the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale and the Adjective Check List were compared. Most of the data showed no significant differences except on one scale of Counseling Readiness. The results, and others, indicate that vasectomy candidates may have a tendency to deny the anxiety connected with the operation due to its irreversible nature.

scholarly journals The Impact on Self Perception of Ego States of a Transactional Analysis Introductory Training Course (TA 101)

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Traian Bossenmayer
Keyword(s):  
Transactional Analysis ◽  
Check List ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Ego States ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
The Impact

The research examines the effects of transactional analysis (TA) 101 training upon self perceptions of ego-state dynamics, using the model of ego states incorporated into the Adjective Check List (Gough & Heilbrun, 1980). Subjects completed the question-naires at the beginning and end of the training and one month later. The only statistically significant change was that Critical Parent decreased after the training and was still lowered one month later, although not as much. It was also found that gender was significant, but age was not.

Pet Ownership and Self-Perceptions of Older People

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 867-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline H. Kidd ◽  
Bruce Max Feldmann
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Pet Ownership ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Scheffe Test ◽  
Personal Adjustment ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Pet Owners

The study investigated the relationships between pet-ownership or non-ownership among elderly subjects and scores on the Adjective Check List scales. It was hypothesized that pet-owners would score higher on the Self-confidence and Personal Adjustment scales and lower on the Abasement, Deference, and Succorance scales than non-owners. 104 adults completed an experimenter-designed questionnaire and the check list. An analysis of variance was performed on the standardized T scores for each scale. For owners and non-owners combined, the Scheffé test showed that males were significantly higher on the Need for Achievement and Endurance scales, while females were significantly higher on the Lability scale. Pet-owners were significantly higher on the number of adjectives checked and on the Nurturance scale and significantly lower on the Succorance and Abasement scales than non-owners. Two of the interactions were significant. Male pet-owners scored significantly higher on the Defensiveness scale and male non-owners scored significantly higher on the number of unfavorable adjectives checked than did the other three groups. The differences suggest that pet-ownership may be psychologically advantageous to the elderly. Further research is needed.

Effect of Acquaintanceship on Accuracy of Person Perception

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 819-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisa Cloyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Check List ◽  
Vocational Interest ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Response Set ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Assumed Similarity

Accuracy, assumed similarity, and actual similarity were assessed for an acquaintance and a stranger target selected by the subject. Four standardized questionnaires were used to obtain separate estimates of each variable, Cattell's 16 PF test, Gough's Adjective Check List, the Abilities and Characteristics Scale of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, and Bernreuter's Personality Inventory. All measures showed significant differences in the predicted direction for accuracy and no significant between-target differences for assumed similarity or actual similarity. The Adjective Check List proved to be very susceptible to social desirability response set and produced accuracy scores that were strongly associated with assumed similarity. On the other measures, accuracy scores were relatively independent of assumed similarity, suggesting that these instruments are suitable for studies of person perception.

Social Desirability, Marital Satisfaction, and Concomitant Perceptions of Self and Spouse

1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Cone
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Marital Adjustment ◽  
Check List ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
The Social

Data from a study by Luckey (1964) were re-analyzed in terms of social desirability (SD). Correlations between endorsement of adjectives of the Interpersonal Check List and marital adjustment varied linearly with the social desirability scale values (SDSVs) of the adjectives. The respective correlations between SDSVs and adjective-adjustment correlations were .75 and .89 for self- and spouse-rating conditions ( N = .80 couples). Thus, SD may be an important moderator influencing correlations of personality scales and marital adjustment.

Personality Characteristics of Extreme Scorers on the Self-Monitoring Scale

1984 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Stewart ◽  
Lynn Carley
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Check List ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
The Right

Extreme high and extreme low self-monitors rated themselves and were rated by four close acquaintances on Gough's Adjective Check List and Cattell's 16 PF Profile Sheet. The theory of Snyder implies that high self-monitors ought to use more adjectives in describing themselves and that their acquaintances ought to use more adjectives in describing them. The observed differences were in the right direction but were nonsignificant. Another implication is that there should be greater self-other and other-other agreement in ratings of low self-monitors; results did not support these predictions either. Snyder's theory implies a direct relationship between self-monitoring and social desirability. In this study, high and low self-monitors did not differ in reliance on likability of adjectives used in self-descriptions. Although the construct and the scale may be useful in some contexts, self-monitoring as measured by Snyder's Self-monitoring Scale seems to have little relationship to cross-situational consistency.

Maternal personality and parenting cognitions in cross-cultural perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc H. Bornstein ◽  
Chun-Shin Hahn ◽  
O. Maurice Haynes ◽  
J. Belsky ◽  
Hiroshi Azuma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Family Process ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Maternal Personality ◽  
Parenting Cognitions ◽  
Collectivist Cultures

A total of 467 mothers of firstborn 20-month-old children from 7 countries (103 Argentine, 61 Belgian, 39 Israeli, 78 Italian, 57 Japanese, 69 Korean, and 60 US American) completed the Jackson Personality Inventory (JPI), measures of parenting cognitions (self-perceptions and knowledge), and a social desirability scale. Our first analysis showed that the Five-Factor structure of personality (Openness, Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) could be extracted from the JPI scales when cross-cultural data from mothers in the 7 countries were analyzed; it was also replicable and generalizable in mothers from so-called individualist and collectivist cultures. Our second analysis showed that the five personality factors relate differently to diverse parenting cognitions in those individualist versus collectivist cultures. Maternal personality has significance in studies of normative parenting, child development, and family process across cultural contexts.

Adjective Check List

1965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrison G. Gough ◽  
Alfred B. Heilbrun
Keyword(s):  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List
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