Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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 on a scale which measures the need to be aggressive and on a scale...
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...
...Freedom Budget is the A. Philip Randolph Institute's proposal to spend $185 billion of federal funds over the next ten years to create new jobs and to increase Social Security and other transfer payments. The Budget is on a much grander scale than the poverty program...
...these two schools the fear is that outside authorities will invade the campus and arrest users if the colleges do nothing about it. That is what happened at Princeton several months ago and it rated a full-scale scandal headline on the front page of the New York Daily News...