Cornelius J. Holland

The relationship between psychometric intelligence and the five-factor model of personality in a rehabilitation sample.

WAIS-R and NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) scores obtained from 85 rehabilitation clients of the Evaluation and Development Center of Southern Illinois Universitys Rehabilitation Institute were utilized to examine the relationship between psychometric intelligence and personality. Correlational analyses revealed that the NEO-PI Openness domain and its six facets significantly correlated with WAIS-R FSIQ, VIQ, PIQ, and 9 of the 11 subtests. Multiple regression analyses showed that the five NEO-PI domains accounted for significant proportions of WAIS-R, FSIQ, VIQ, and PIQ score variance. The NEO-PI Openness domain was found to be the best predictor of WAIS-R FSIQ, VIQ, and PIQ scores. The study concludes with a discussion of the meaning and implications of the findings and suggestions for future research.

EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR AND THE NEO PERSONALITY INVENTORY

The study examined the relationship between scores on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and on the NEO Personality Inventory by administering these measures to 161 women and 48 men in introductory psychology. Notable correlations were found for MBTI Introversion and Extraversion with NEO-PI Extraversion (– .58 and .58 for men, – .68 and .68 for women), MBTI Sensation and Intuition with NEO-PI Openness (– .60 and .71 for men, – .70 and .65 for women), MBTI Thinking and Feeling with NEO-PI Agreeableness (– .60 and .52 for men, – .41 and .39 for women), and MBTI Judging and Perceiving with NEO-PI Conscientiousness (.56 and – .62 for men, .49 and – .50 for women). These findings are consistent with McCrae and Costa (1989). Implications for interpretation of the scores are discussed.

An interview guide for behavioural counseling with parents

A 21-step interview guide is discussed as an aid for counselors in teaching parents to apply operant techniques to the problems they are experiencing with their children. The guide provides an analysis of the information required for a behavioural assessment of the problem and for choice of modification techniques. It may also serve the purpose of providing a standardized interview format for use in research projects.

Correlations between the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Neo Personality Inventory Facets

Using data obtained from 48 male and 161 female undergraduate students in psychology, correlations between scores on the scales of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the facets of the Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness domains of the NEO Personality Inventory were low to moderate.

The student nurse as therapeutic consultant

During the past decade parents have been taught to act as the primary agents of change for the problem behaviours of their children, which formerly often necessitated treatment by the professional (Brown, 1971; Berkowitz and Graziano, 1972; O’Dell, 1974; Tavomina, 1974). Although this extension of therapeutic services is still in its earlier stages of development and is awaiting much needed research, it promises to become one of the most significant developments in applied mental health in the latter part of the 20th century. Concurrent with this development is an attempt to train para-pscyhotherapeutic specialists to assume the role of primary consultants for the home-based programs of the parent-therapist. This article describes one such program, Directive Parental Counseling (DPC) (Holland, 1976) and its implementation by student nurses.

Directive parental counseling: The parents' manual

A 30-point manual to train parents as agents of intervention for remediating the problems of their children was developed to allow a counselor in a group setting to gather systematically the information necessary to bring about behavior change, and to teach the parents to make the necessary interventions.