A Preliminary Study of Opening-up Meditation, College Adjustment, and Self-Actualization

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 449-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Tloczynski
Keyword(s):  
College Adjustment ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Meditation Group ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
And Control ◽  
Opening Up

The effects of opening-up meditation on college adjustment and self-actualization were examined with 45 subjects who were divided into groups for opening-up meditation, relaxation, and control using scores on the Anxiety Scale of the College Adjustment Scales. Subjects also completed the Personal Orientation Inventory. 1 hr. of training for the meditation and relaxation groups was given and 20 min./day practice requested. After 2 and 4 wk. anxiety and family problem scores significantly increased for the meditation group as did scores on the Feeling Reactivity Scale. Analysis was compromised by high dropout (leaving 3, 4, and 3 subjects, respectively, in the meditation, relaxation, and control groups).

Effects of Fictional, Autobiographical and Self-Help Literature on Personality Measures

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Scholz ◽  
James J. Forest
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Reading Condition ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Group Reading ◽  
Personal Orientation

This study evaluated three types of books under different reading conditions and using two measures of personality. Data from 163 women were analyzed in a 3 × 2 × 2 multivariate design, with control groups, which varied type of book (fiction, autobiography, self-help), reading condition (supervised and unsupervised), and order of testing (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Personal Orientation Inventory). None of the groups who received books to read had mean scores significantly different from those of the control groups. However, the group reading the self-help book had significantly higher scores on scales of self-actualization than the groups using fictional or autobiographical books.

The Impact of an Intensive Consciousness-Raising Curriculum on Adolescent Women

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger W. Abernathy ◽  
Stephen I. Abramowitz ◽  
Howard B. Roback ◽  
Lawrence J. Weitz ◽  
Christine V. Abramowitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attitudes Toward Women ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Adolescent Women ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

The impact of a consciousness-raising module offered in 50-minute class periods over 20 consecutive school days to junior and senior high school women was evaluated. Experimental and control groups were constituted randomly from a pool of volunteers. Subjects completed the attitudes toward women scale, the personal orientation inventory, and the Tennessee self-concept scale before and after the consciousness-raising experience. Results indicated that women who participated became more liberal in their beliefs about women's rights and roles and also showed increases along several dimensions of self-actualization. However, such gains did not radiate to self-concept.

Preliminary Study of the Bilingual Version of the Self-Actualization Value Subscale of the Personal Orientation Inventory

1994 ◽  
Vol 79 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1625-1626
Author(s):  
Ananda Kumar Palaniappan
Keyword(s):  
Criterion Validity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Personal Orientation ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Malaysian Students

A bilingual version of Shostrom's Self-actualization Value subscale of the Personal Orientation Inventory was administered to 62 Malaysian students. For the 26-item paired-opposite inventory, test-retest reliability over 6 mo. was .39 (for boys .42, for girls .37) and criterion validity was .57. Replication with other groups is recommended.

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).

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.

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