Personality of Alcoholics as Measured by Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and House-Tree-Person Color-Choice Characteristics

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 627-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Kirchner ◽  
Stanley S. Marzolf

This report describes four studies of measures of the alcoholic personality by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and the House-Tree-Person. In a sample of 49 male alcoholics support was found for the 16 PF alcoholic personality reported in earlier studies on 4 to 7 scales. Differences in incidence of 20 chromatic characteristics of drawings and in sex of the HTP person drawings between normals and alcoholics were also discovered. Previous research on collegiates reported some low but significant point biserial correlations and discriminant functions between 16 PF traits and trait combinations, and 20 chromatic drawing characteristics. In three instances, alcoholic and college men's drawing characteristics correlated significantly ( p < .05) with the same 16 PF scale. In three other cases, identical findings occurred in correlations of alcoholic men and college women's drawings and traits. Comparison of the data from alcoholics and college students led to the conclusion that in general relationships between drawing characteristics and personality traits may well depend on the type of sample used. Suggestions for further research were made.

1979 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Tobacyk ◽  
Louise Bailey ◽  
Hal Myers

College students (49 males and 40 females) completed the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and performed 5-point preference ratings on 25 slides of paintings. Factor analysis of preference ratings gave seven dimensions of preference that underlay judgments. Eight significant relationships were found between source traits, measured by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, and dimensions of painting preferences. Support was obtained for the notion that preference for paintings is congruent with or expresses the personality traits of the rater. Further students reported greater preference for representational paintings than for abstract paintings.


1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 615-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances A. Karnes ◽  
Jane C. Chauvin ◽  
Timothy J. Trant

79 students enrolled in an Honors College curriculum were administered the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire to determine their leadership potential scores. Significant differences were found between individuals who actually held leadership positions and those who did not. Other studies using larger samples need to be undertaken to replicate this study.


1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 1015-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Logan ◽  
Robert C. Koettel ◽  
Robert W. Moore

The goal of this study is to assess the construct validity of a preemployment test of honesty, the Phase II Profile, in relation to the personality traits measured by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire. Of the four predetermined criteria, only the relationship to emotional stability was significant. Two of the 12 relationships expected to be nonsignificant were significant. The correlations obtained in this study and in two others were so low that the construct validity for the tests of honesty in relation to the chosen personality traits could not be confirmed.


1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 949-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Shelton ◽  
Thomas L. Harris

Undergraduate art students were administered the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF). Significant personality differences were found on the basis of sex and degree sought. Art students scored more sensitive, self-sufficient, imaginative, liberal, and forthright when compared with non-art college students.


1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 653-654
Author(s):  
Marley Watkins

A correlation of .37 between scores on Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire source trait B and scores on the Quick Word Test of 104 male and 141 female American college students was calculated. It was concluded that Factor B's validity as an individual assessment of intelligence is not supported for this sample of college students.


1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1215-1218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith W. Jacobs

Correlations between the Form C of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF) and Form IV of Zuckerman's Sensation-seeking Scale are presented for 200 undergraduate college students. Previous findings tended to be supported and the analysis was expanded to include four second-stratum 16 PF traits and six 16 PF criterion scores. General sensation-seeking was negatively related to psychoticism and neuroticism and positively related to extraversion, contertia, and independence. The psychoticism and neuroticism factors are also negatively related to the factors of sensation-seeking, thrill seeking, and disinhibition, as well as other significant relationships between these factor scales.


1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suki Hinman ◽  
Brian Bolton

Two hundred and five disadvantaged women completed standardized psychometric inventories (Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Motivation Analysis Test, Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, Internal-External Control Scale, Work Attitude Scale) and a structured interview (attitude-value, activity. Jife concerns items). Factor analysis was used to organize these data; correlational analyses indicated that the inventory and interview dimensions tapped essentially independent aspects within the total motivation domain. Compared with inventory norms, these women exhibited torpidity and submissiveness, depressed motivation, poor self-esteem, but positive work attitudes. Differences between dichotomous subgroups defined by six major demographic variables were consistent with previous literature; the most salient pattern of subgroup differences showed that black, less intelligent, and less educated women were less positive toward work and more externally oriented. In sum, these women appeared resigned and lethargic; no causal inference was drawn, but it was cautioned that choice of counseling procedures should be based on a differentiation of diminished from initial lack of motivation.


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