1. A TEST FOR DOMINANCE-FEELING (SELF-ESTEEM) IN COLLEGE WOMEN.
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Maslow, A. H.
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PERSONALITY tests ,WOMEN college students ,SELF-esteem ,SELF-confidence ,INTERVIEWING ,PRODUCT management - Abstract
This article focuses on a test on dominance feeling in college women. The Social Personality Inventory here described, emerged as a by-product of a clinical-experimental research with the role of dominance-feeling in the personalities of relatively normal people. It was filled out by as many of these subjects as could be reached, and the scores so obtained were correlated with the ratings for dominance feeling previously given to these subjects at the end of the interview with them. Thus, the present test arose directly from a large store of empirically derived facts and relationships. Each question was derived separately and was given separate preliminary empirical validation and, furthermore, the test as a whole had an external criterion of validity. When this research began, the interview was entirely exploratory. The only considerations that guide the choice of question and that determined lines of investigation were the ideas and facts that had been obtained with infra-human primates. The primary usefulness of the test is, of course, as a research instrument in the various problems of personality. It has, however, demonstrated its usefulness in other directions also. The writer has found it to give illumination and to save a good deal of time in his clinical dealings with students.
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- 1940
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