Personal Adequacy Research Articles

Antecedents of Personal Adequacy of Filipino College Students

Responses of 307 male and 842 female Filipino university students to the California Psychological Inventory were related to measures of sex, socioeconomic status, family size, quality of family relationships, intelligence, level of academic aspiration, and school achievement. A multiple R of 0.34 was found between personal adequacy as measured by the inventory and these antecedents. The main contributors to the prediction of personal adequacy were intelligence, quality of family communication, own academic aspiration, sex, and socioeconomic status.

The Personal Adequacy Checklist

Presents a behavioral sequence of tasks, identified with particular developmental stages, i.e., “Need recognition… Discomfort awareness… Thinking about… Identification of options… Decision to take action… Experiencing relief.” The checklist may be used to describe and to assess the personal adequacy of clients, and may be employed either as a diagnostic tool or as an indicator of the involvement of specific developmental level tasks in particular issues identified by a client. The authors emphasize the positive aspects of behavior and behavioral change, and deal with developmental issues only to the extent necessary to effect positive behavioral changes.

Adolescent Scoliosis Patients

Personality patterns of 84 adolescent scoliosis patients were assessed and an evaluation made of certain psychological effects of corrective surgery. Results indicate the following: Scoliosis has fewer psychologically debilitating effects on younger adolescents (those under 16) than it does on older adolescents; scoliotic boys show comparatively better general personality integration than girls; scoliotic girls are less disturbed in psychosexual development than are boys. Postoperatively, boys can be expected to show less overt incapacitation than girls; psychologically, boys will require a longer period of recuperation than will girls; boys can be expected to present fewer immediate management problems than girls; the internalization of a sense of "difference" from the normal in adolescent scoliotics increases in direct relation to age. Consequently, the eariler surgical correction can be undertaken the better. Important differences exist between the psychological "set" of male and female adolescent patients. For boys, self-acceptance is at the core. Postoperative surgical care should thus focus on reinforcing characteristics of personal adequacy, namely, the ability to compete, and fulfill reasonable goals. For girls, acceptance by others is paramount. Postoperative care is best directed toward strengthening feelings of attractiveness (of any personal characteristic), worth, and, above all, future interpersonal possibilities.

Children with problems in the infants' school

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsLesley WebbLesley Webb has had extensive experience of teaching infants and juniors. She spent seven years in Bethnal Green, seven as head of an infants' school in Hertfordshire, and a similar period in a college of education. She has published several books concerned with infant and nursery education.Here she is particularly concerned with the difficulties presented by those ‘problem’ children who are to be found in any infants' school. She offers no easy recipes, no instant panaceas, but some guiding principles enshrined in two major ideas — the development of personal adequacy in the child and the development of the school as a therapeutic community. Is she claiming too much for the school? Or have we become desensitised to its importance by those psychologists and sociologists who have stressed the importance of the first five years of a child's life?

A procedure for factoring an unlimited pool of items with results for the c.p.i. using young australian males

A factorial solution of the items of the California Psychological Inventory (C.P.I.) for a sample of 116 14-year-old boys is presented, and related to Hammond's theory of personality structure and the distinction between factorial and clinical scales. A general procedure for factor analysing a pool of items of unlimited size was formulated, involving a two-stage factor analysis and a technique for refining the second order scales. The six main factors were called “Personal adequacy and well-being”, “Serious/flippant life attitude”, “Sociability and interpersonal competence”, “Community alienation”, “Rigidity of thought”, and “Authoritarianism”. Only the first and last scales were not independent. The first four factors fitted Hammond's theory.

The beginning resident and supervision.

THE initial year of training for a psychiatric resident represents a period of professional transition. The manner in which the transition is negotiated will have a profound effect on both his personal well-being and professional adequacy. As a number of authors have pointed out, supervision plays a central role in the negotiations. 1-3 In the following pages, the initial supervisory experience will be examined from the point of view of the beginning resident. By contrasting the resident's perception of the supervisory process with the supervisor's intent, the present paper aims at clarifying the nature of the interplay between the parties so as to better understand the relevance of supervision to the student's professional development. To accomplish this aim, 12 psychiatric residents in the Department of Psychiatry of the Yale University School of Medicine were interviewed during their initial year of training. The

Personal Adequacy and Self-Perception in High School Students: A Study of Behavioral and Internal Perceptual Factors

Personal Adequacy and Self-Perception in High School Students: A Study of Behavioral and Internal Perceptual Factors