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...group seeking psychiatric help was lower on the F-scale, a test designed to measure the extent to which the subject accepts authoritarian positions in various areas. Students in the psychiatric group were lower on a measure of social desirability, that is they were less likely to endorse statements about values in a conventional and confirming manner. They were lower on a scale which measures the need to be different. For example, they were more inclined to say dislike rather than like to such statements as "Going along with a decision made by a supervisor or leader rather than starting...
Further support for these themes, although less definite, comes from test results that were significant on only one of the two samples. The psychiatric group was lower on a test of traditional value orientation, which means they were less inclined to emphasize the work success ethic, future time orientation, individualism, and puritan morality. They were also lower on the Self-Deception Scale, a test which is really a measure of conformity. At the same time, those seeking psychiatric help were higher on a scale which measure of conformity. At the same time, those seeking psychiatric help were higher...
Three other scales from the Myers Briggs Type Indicator add another dimension. The psychiatric group was higher on the scale for unconscious strain, or what might be interpreted as a sense of vulnerability, but lower on the scale for constructive reaction, or what we might think of as a feeling of competence in or capacity for coping. They are also lower on the scale for self-confidence, although the differences reached an acceptable rate of probability for the 1964 sample only. The 1965 sample difference was in the same direction, however...
...person with coverage from outside sources, O'Connell testified, would thus be rewarded with reduced premiums, as his economic losses would not have to be paid totally by the insurance company. Similarly, a student earning no wages has small potential economic loss and would pay lower premiums...
...first families of Reston. By and large, they are a well-educated, well-paid group. This beginning was necessary, for Simon had his first houses range from $27,000 to $50,000 in order to get his idea commercially off and running. His market advisors assured him that urban lower-income people would not be the first to move to the country where bulldozers were still breaking ground. As the composition of the residents moves to a broader cross section of income levels and interests, image of life at Reston will change as well. Reston's publicity, too, which thus...