Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-51). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Sept. 20, 2006). Thesis advisor: E. Grady Bouge. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2006. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 14, 2007). Includes bibliographical references.

The purpose of this correlational study was to determine if specific personality characteristics existed between groups of psychologists who identified themselves as operating within behavioral (N = 14) or psychoanalytic (N = 13) theoretical principles.Previous studies of this nature have resulted in mixed findings regarding Personality-theory relationships. Major weaknesses in these studies were found to include the use of theoretically immature psychologist-subjects, poor deliniation of subject theoretical orientation and one-sided (i.e. continuous or categorical) treatment of Myers-Briggs type Indicator data. The present study attempted to improve on these three weaknesses in order to provide stronger evidence for theory-Personality relationships.The subjects in the present study were randomly selected from two theoretically oriented professional directories. All of the subjects held doctorates in psychology for at least two years. The settings from which the subjects were drawn varied widely while the study itself was conducted from a midwestern university of approximately 19,000 students.Subject personality variables were measured using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - MBTI (Form G). A Theoretical Orientation Form was developed to assess the psychological theory from which subjects operated. This form required subjects to 1) endorse theoretically-bound techniques in response to case vignettes, and 2) endorse one of two labels of theoretical orientation. Only those subjects who endorsed all the vignettes and the respective label were included in the experimental group.Four null hypotheses were posed for those subjects meeting criteria: 1) no statisticallysignificant (p. <.05) differences would be found between groups (beavioral versus psycholanalytic) on the MBTI measure of extraversion - introversion, 2) no statistically significant differences would be found between these groups on the MBTI measure of sensing-intuition, 3) no statistically different differences would be found between these two groups on the MBTI measure of thinking-feeling, and 4). no statistically different differences would be found between these two groups on the MBTI measure of judgement-perception.Continuous scores of those subjects meeting criteria were examined via desriptive and inferential statistical procedures. Beyond the more common descriptive findings (i.e., means and standard deviations) the use of multidimensional scaling allowed for appreciation of both the categorical and continuous properties of the MBTI data.The data was also subjected to a MANOVA which yielded both multivariate and univariate F tests. The multivariate F (2,27) = p. < .10 allowed for further analysis with univariate F tests. A significant difference was found on only the third test of group comparisons on the thinking feeling dimension where F (2,27) = p..025.The analysis desribed above allowed for rejection of only the third null hypothesis which questioned group differences on the thinking-feeling dimension. In this group of psychologists, behaviorists were much more likely to prefer the thinking mode of judgement while psychoanalytic psychologists showed definite preference for the feeling dimension. This finding is supported by previous research as well.A secondary finding of the present study was that the perceptive process of intuition did not prove do be as important to this sample of psychologists as previous writers would contend. Although the presence of the intuitive preference was found in the majority of the subjects, its level of importance was of an auxiliary nature to most of these individuals.

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-65).

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-65).

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2007. / Vita. Description based on Microfiche version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-65).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-158). Also available via the Internet.

This study sought to examine the relationship between the procrastination involved in thesis writing and Jungian personality type. A sample of 50 graduate students enrolled in the Department of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia participated in the study. These individuals were classified into one of two groups: those who procrastinated while writing their thesis and those who did not. Procrastination was measured using length of time taken to complete the thesis coupled with self-report. The 50 subjects were then administered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which measures Jungian personality type. These two groups were then compared to determine if significant differences in personality type existed between the procrastinating and nan-procrastinating groups. Five hypotheses were tested. A t-test (two tailed) was performed using the continuous scores of the four scales of the MBTI to test the first four hypotheses to determine if a statistical difference could be found between these two groups on these dimensions. No differences were found on the first three scales (extraversion-introversion; sensation-intuition; thinking-feeling), but a significant difference was found on the judging-perceiving index (p=.008). Procrastinators tended to score toward the perceiving end of the scale while non-procrastinators scored toward the judging end of the continuum. A chi-square analysis using tire dichotomous scores of the MBTI was performed to test the fifth hypothesis which predicted that a significantly higher number of NFP types would be procrastinators than nan-procrastinators. This hypothesis was accepted (p=.0017) indicating that specific personality variables do tend to correlate with procrastination. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

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