DESCRIPTIVE RELIABILITY OF ACTIVITY VECTOR ANALYSIS

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 435 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAROLD R. MUSIKER
Keyword(s):  
Vector Analysis ◽  
Activity Vector

Senegalese Students' Perception of L. S. Senghor

1982 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Vandewiele ◽  
Peter F. Merenda
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vector Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
N 93 ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Activity Vector

Form D of the Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) was administered to 131 Senegalese students in French. They were requested to give their perceptions of the former poet-president of Senegal L. S. Senghor. The AVA profile (5915) about which the public images clustered very heavily ( N = 93) is identical to that which previously represented the ideal perception of the President of the United States in 1964 but not the current one.

Iranian Students' Perceptions of Hovayda and the Ideal Self

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42 ◽  
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).

Perception of Role of the President

1964 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 863-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. Merenda
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vector Analysis ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Significant Cluster ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Group Centroid ◽  
Activity Vector

The Activity Vector Analysis was administered to 31 Ss under the instruction to select those words which they felt described the kind of person the President of the United States should be. A significant cluster which included 29 of the 31 Ss was noted. The personality profiles located within the cluster correlated, on the average, +.93 with the group centroid. They are generally descriptive of a person who is socially outgoing; who displays a genuine interest in people; who is enthusiastic, but diplomatic in his social contacts; who is mentally and physically alert; and who exercises good moral judgment.

Perception of Role of the President: A Nine-Year Follow up

1974 ◽  
Vol 38 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1259-1262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary R. Morrow ◽  
Peter F. Merenda ◽  
Walter V. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Vector Analysis ◽  
Age And Sex ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Activity Vector

The Activity Vector Analysis was administered to 31 Ss matched for age and sex to a prior sample under the instructions to select those words which they felt described the kind of person the President of the United States should be. Comparing the significant resulting cluster with one discovered 9 yr. previously showed that there has been slight change in the stereotyped perception of the Ideal President in that the new ideal is generally less opinionated and decisive as well as more receptive and appreciative of another person's point of view than was previously found.

A REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF THE VALIDITY STUDIES OF ACTIVITY VECTOR ANALYSIS

1962 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDWIN A. LOCKE ◽  
CHARLES L. HULIN
Keyword(s):  
Vector Analysis ◽  
Validity Studies ◽  
Activity Vector

Senegalese Students' Perception of Abdou Diouf and Gaddafi

1982 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-394
Author(s):  
Michel Vandewiele ◽  
Peter F. Merenda
Keyword(s):  
Vector Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Activity Vector

Form D of the Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) was administered to 153 Senegalese students in French. They were requested to give their perceptions of the president of Senegal Abdou Diouf and of the president of Libya Gaddafi. The AVA profiles (4943 for Diouf and 6617 for Gaddafi) about which the public images clustered very heavily ( N = 86 for Diouf and N = 135 for Gaddafi) suggest personalities perceived as substantially different from one another.

Students' Perception of Jimmy Carter and the Ideal Self

1978 ◽  
Vol 46 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1183-1190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine P. Gelineau ◽  
Peter F. Merenda
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Vector Analysis ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Ideal Self ◽  
Business Executive ◽  
Junior College Students ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Activity Vector

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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