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.

Self-Image of Social Workers

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 657-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Reich ◽  
Andrew Geller
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Personal Adjustment ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Control Order

105 female social workers described themselves using Gough and Heilbrun's Adjective Check List. They scored higher on Achievement, Endurance, Dominance, Self-control, Order, Self-confidence, Defensiveness, Personal Adjustment, and Aggression among other variables and lower on Number of Unfavorable Adjectives Checked, Affiliation, and Succorance than the norms for females.

Teachers View People: Sex-Role Stereotyping

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 583-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara G. Zimet ◽  
Carl N. Zimet
Keyword(s):  
Women Educators ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Check List ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Personal Adjustment ◽  
Sex Role Stereotyping ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Relationship

175 women and 80 men educators completed the Gough Adjective Check List identifying each word as being stereotypically associated with males, with females, or with both. Only those adjectives on which at least 70% of all educators agreed were assigned by society either to males ( N = 74) or to females ( N = 67) were used in eight of the check list scales. Men and women educators saw males as being perceived as significantly more achievement oriented, autonomous, and aggressive and females as being seen as significantly more deferent. No significant differences in educators' views of society's perception of males and females were found regarding personal adjustment, intraception, and favorable and unfavorable characteristics. The relationship between culturally stereotyped characteristics identified by educators as being assigned to males and females and the characteristics associated with performance in school are discussed.

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.

Women Law Students’ Descriptions of Self and the Ideal Lawyer

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane W. Coplin ◽  
John E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Law Students ◽  
The Self ◽  
Occupational Aspirations ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
The Law ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Ideal

This study employed the Adjective Check List to assess descriptions of self and ideal lawyer among women law students in terms of sex-trait stereotypes and need structures. When compared to a sample of female undergraduates, the law students exhibited more self-confidence and autonomy. However, the law students perceived the ideal lawyer to be more rational and less emotional than themselves. While the female law students and female undergraduates had theoretically feminine self-descriptions, the law students’ perception of the ideal lawyer was relatively quite masculine. It was proposed that the perception of the legal profession as requiring primarily masculine traits may affect the self-selection of women into the field and may limit the occupational aspirations of women within the profession.

Self-Image of Nurses

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Reich ◽  
Andrew Geller
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Check List ◽  
Graduate Nurses ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Self Image

163 female graduate nurses described themselves using Gough and Heilbrun's Adjective Check List. The nurses scored higher on Dominance, Self-control, Achievement, Order, Self-confidence, Counseling, Readiness and Nurturance, among other variables and lower on Succorance, Change, Abasement, Lability and Number of Unfavorable Items Checked than the norms.

Factorial Study of Motivational Self-Ratings by Female Subjects

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rio Sciortino
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
Initial Matrix ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Undergraduate Female ◽  
Promax Rotation ◽  
Significant Factors ◽  
Female Subjects

An iterative factor analysis was performed on the scores obtained from a Motivational Adjective Check List (MACL) ( N = 102 undergraduate female students). The initial matrix of significant factors was rotated according to the quartimax, varimax, and equamax procedures. The promax rotation was then performed on each of the three orthogonal solutions obtaining the promax-quartimax, promax-varimax, and promax-equamax solutions. Interpretation of factors was based on the promax-equamax solution and the factors obtained were: dedication, persistence, self-confidence, assertion, striving, individuality, and pursuance.

Some Evidence Relating to Convergent Validity of Form B of Coopersmith's Self-Esteem Inventory

1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 725-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur G. Bedeian ◽  
Robert W. Zmud
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Mixed Pattern

This study examined the convergent validity of the recently developed short form of Coopersmith's Self-esteem Inventory. The inventory and the Adjective Check List were administered to 172 male and 85 female university students. Correlations of scores on the inventory and the Adjective Check List scales for Self-confidence, Exhibition, and Change displayed a mixed pattern. All three ACL scales were significantly related to the inventory for males, but only the Exhibition scale was significantly related for females. In all instances, the correlations were low, or at best moderate. These findings were not interpreted as demonstrating strong support for the convergent validity of the inventory.

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.

Scores on Adjective Check List, Eysenck Personality Inventory, and Depression Adjective Check List for a Male Prison Population

1977 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Connie M. Horned ◽  
Robert R. Knapp
Keyword(s):  
Prison Population ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Male Inmates

Normative data are presented for a male prison population on the Adjective Check List (Gough & Heilbrun, 1965), Form A of the Eysenck Personality Inventory (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975) and Form C of the Depression Adjective Check List (Lubin, 1967). The intercorrelations among the instruments also are presented. In the sample were 60 recently admitted male inmates of a maximum security correctional institution randomly drawn from a larger sample of 205 consecutive admissions. Subjects describe themselves as markedly depressed, high on neuroticism, low in personal adjustment, low in self-confidence, and low in self-control.

Strength Gains, Locus of Control, and Self-Description of College Football Players

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-493
Author(s):  
Ronald Brone ◽  
Marvin Reznikoff
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Weight Training ◽  
College Football ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Check List ◽  
Total Strength ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Confidence

The present study investigated strength gains and change in self-concept and locus of control related to participation in a weight-training program. 37 college football players were administered Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale and Gough and Heilbrun's Adjective Check List prior to and immediately following their participation in a 14-wk. weight-training program. While participants who scored high on the Femininity scale and high on externality on the I-E scale achieved greater gains on some of the strength measures, for the most part I-E and Adjective Check List scores did not predict strength changes. A positive correlation was found between change in total strength and change in score on the Self-confidence scale. Regardless of change in strength, subjects showed an increase in scores on the Order scale from pretest to posttest. The need for further research on the relationships between participation in a weight-training program, gains in strength and self-concept is discussed.

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