Journal of Multivariate Experimental Personality and Clinical Psychology, v.1 no.1
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Item Journal of Multivariate Experimental Personality and Clinical Psychology, First Number, v.1, no.1 (complete version) (Western Institute of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 1973) Western Institute of Multivariate Experimental PsychologyItem Editorial(Western Institute of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Brandon, Oregon, 1973) Pierson, George R.Item Computer assisted personality analysis (CAPA) and simulation (CAPS)(Western Institute of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 1973) Pierson, George R.This paper discusses the development of technology designed to simulate hypothetical personality structures and to predict specific behaviours as a consequence of personality and situational interactions.4 This device should be useful in theoretical psychology to pose questions of the "What would happen if...?" variety. The program can also evaluate a different kind of questions, "Given the present personality structure of an individual, as a set of dependent variates, what might one predict his behaviour to be if...?" Examples are given of the use to which the personality simulator has been put. Some potential uses are suggested.Item Theory and measurement of self-esteem(Western Institute of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 1973) Dickstein, Ellen, 1947-An earlier paper (Dickstein, 1972) identified five forms of self-concept. The nature self-esteem was postulated to vary with age, with a different type of self-esteem being appropriate to each form of the self-concept. On the basis of this theory, a measure of self-esteem for school-age children was designed. The rationale for the new measure was derived from the writings of James (1890) and Mead (1934). The self-concept of the school-age child falls within the from of self called the "self-as-object." Through his recognition of other objects and people in the world, the child comes, in time, to see himself as an object. The self is created through experience, and knowledge of the self is limited to that which the child learns through interaction with others. For the individual whose self-concept falls at this level, self-esteem should be based on his perceived success at the various thing he does, with his overall level of self-esteem being determined by the degree to which he perceives himself to be successful at those particular activities which are most important to him.Item A check on the 28 factor clinical analysis questionnaire structure on normal and pathological subjects(Western Institute of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 1973) Cattell, Raymond B. (Raymond Bernard), 1905-1998Taking the widest currently possible array of items made up for various pathological behaviors, some five pioneer factorings have indicated 28 primary factors, 16 of which are the familiar normal personality factors of the 16 P.F. in partly pathological expression. A pair of scales to mark each of these factors having been developed in the experimental CAQ, a check on the factor structure of the 56 variables provided was made independently on a group of 400 normal adults, 190 clinical patients, and on the mixed group spanning the normal-pathological range. The existence of 28-29 factors is uniformly supported in all three, and the nature of the factors, at a high degree of simple structure, is essentially as hypothesized (as is also confirmed by the second order structure). However, one psychoticism factor and two depression factors show some spread into other factors, and farther progressive rectification with new items is indicated. This is in progress by Sells and Cattell in constructing equivalent forms of the CAQ for clinical practice.