Students' Perception of Jimmy Carter and the Ideal Self

The Activity Vector Analysis was administered to 97 junior college students, with instructions to check those words which they felt were descriptive of Jimmy Carter. These same students were again asked to check those words which they felt were descriptive of the Ideal Self or Perfect Person. The data yielded two distinct clusters: (1) around AVA Pattern 6617 for Carter, which correlates .69 with the “Business Executive” profile, and (2) around AVA Pattern 2972 for the Ideal Self, which correlates .80 with the “Perfect Person” profile. The correlation between the Carter profile and the Ideal Self profile is — .45, suggesting lack of congruence between the two perceptions.

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Convergent Validity in Students' Perceptions of Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, and the Ideal President

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1981.52.1.51 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 52 (1) ◽

pp. 51-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

D. Anthony Butterfield ◽

Gary N. Powell

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Presidential Election ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Sex Role ◽

Junior College ◽

The United States ◽

Jimmy Carter ◽

Effective Leader ◽

Junior College Students ◽

The Ideal

Recently Gelineau and Merenda (1980) reported that students saw an Ideal President of the United States as an effective leader who is forceful, confident, enthusiastic, independent, and aggressive. Students' ratings of President Carter did not match the Ideal President description, but their ratings of Senator Kennedy did. Using a completely different instrument (Bern Sex-role Inventory rather than Activity Vector Analysis) and 378 undergraduate business—rather than 114 junior college—students, the present study found nearly identical results. Both studies were validated by the 1980 U.S. presidential election.

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Iranian Students' Perceptions of Hovayda and the Ideal Self

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1976.43.1.40 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 40-42 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Reza Shapurian ◽

Peter F. Merenda

Keyword(s):

Prime Minister ◽

Vector Analysis ◽

Statistical Independence ◽

Ideal Self ◽

Language Form ◽

Persian Language ◽

Iranian Students ◽

The Ideal ◽

Activity Vector

104 students (52 males and 52 females) of an Iranian University were administered a Persian language form of the Activity Vector Analysis. They were asked to give their perceptions of Mr. Hovayda, the Prime Minister of Iran, and the ideal self. Findings were that, while the distributions of these AVA Profiles were quite widely dispersed, two distinct clusters were, nevertheless, identified. The cluster for the perception of Mr. Hovayda and that for the ideal self correlated —.04, suggesting statistical independence of the over-all perceptions of the Prime Minister and the ideal self-concepts of Iranian students. A male-female breakdown, however, showed there was a tendency for the Iranian males to be more congruent (median r = .34) in their perceptions of Mr. Hovayda and the ideal self and for the females to be less congruent (median r = —.04).

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Students' Pre-Election Perceptions of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1981.52.2.491 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 491-498 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Elaine P. Gelineau ◽

Peter F. Merenda

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Community College ◽

Public Perception ◽

Ronald Reagan ◽

Vector Analysis ◽

Jimmy Carter ◽

The Public ◽

The Difference ◽

One Year ◽

Activity Vector

As part of a continuing investigation into the public perception of national and international leaders, the Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) was administered to 176 community college students. Instructions were to check those words which are descriptive of Jimmy Carter and his major opponent, Ronald Reagan. The data yielded two distinct clusters, (1) around AVA Pattern 4529 for Carter, which correlated perfectly with an image observed for him one year prior in the same setting and (2) around AVA Pattern 7616 for Reagan, which correlated .81 with the “administrative pattern” of U.S. self-made company presidents. The correlation between the Carter profile and the Reagan profile was .59, suggesting some overlap in their respective public images. It is the difference between the two candidates, however, which serves as the focus for discussion.

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Indian Students' Perceptions of the Ideal Self, the Ideal Leader, the Ideal Teacher, Indira Gandhi and the Business Executive

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1975.40.2.611 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 611-615 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Peter F. Merenda ◽

Brian J. Shaw ◽

Jitendra Mohan

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

The Other ◽

Vector Analysis ◽

Ideal Self ◽

Business Executive ◽

Ideal Teacher ◽

Three Samples ◽

Indian Students ◽

The Ideal

The Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) was administered to three samples drawn from a population of graduate students at an Indian university. Results indicated a high positive relationship among the perceptions of the ideal self, ideal teacher, and ideal leader. Likewise, the consensual profile of Indira Gandhi was found to be quite similar to the ideal self cluster ( r = .96). The collective perception of the business executive, however, was only remotely similar to the other two character profiles.

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