An MMPI-based study of the personality characteristics of three groups of South African students

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dc.contributor.advisorVan der Spuy, H I Jen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLison, Samuel Malkielen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-21T19:21:38Z
dc.date.available2016-03-21T19:21:38Z
dc.date.issued1977en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 95-101.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study is to investigate the specific personality characteristics of three groups of South African students, utilising the MMPI as the assessment tool. The study of South African subjects in an investigation of this type is important as it can assist in facilitating the understanding of the influences on personality of the kind of society that South Africa- represents, and it can provide empirical data of the personality characteristics typical to South Africa that can alleviate the stereotyping that ignorance of real characteristics can generate. The study of group personality or national character has never fully been assimilated into the main body of psychology. However, more recent empirical concepts of national character, such as that of the "modal personality", which refers to relatively enduring personality characteristics and patterns that are modal among members of a society, and that of the "social personality", which refers to the notion that any culturally distinctive aggregate of individuals suitably studied with the help of psychological concepts and techniques will reveal a fairly general system of overt and covert behaviours, enables scientific studies to be undertaken. The MMPI is a personality assessment tool which, although primarily intended for clinical diagnosis, has had certain techniques developed that allow for the study of group or national character. These techniques plus further clinical and content scale analysis, where these scales low or high elevation warrant attention, enables full and reliable group personalities to be identified, described and compared.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationLison, S. M. (1977). <i>An MMPI-based study of the personality characteristics of three groups of South African students</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18098en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationLison, Samuel Malkiel. <i>"An MMPI-based study of the personality characteristics of three groups of South African students."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1977. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18098en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLison, S. 1977. An MMPI-based study of the personality characteristics of three groups of South African students. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Lison, Samuel Malkiel AB - The aim of this study is to investigate the specific personality characteristics of three groups of South African students, utilising the MMPI as the assessment tool. The study of South African subjects in an investigation of this type is important as it can assist in facilitating the understanding of the influences on personality of the kind of society that South Africa- represents, and it can provide empirical data of the personality characteristics typical to South Africa that can alleviate the stereotyping that ignorance of real characteristics can generate. The study of group personality or national character has never fully been assimilated into the main body of psychology. However, more recent empirical concepts of national character, such as that of the "modal personality", which refers to relatively enduring personality characteristics and patterns that are modal among members of a society, and that of the "social personality", which refers to the notion that any culturally distinctive aggregate of individuals suitably studied with the help of psychological concepts and techniques will reveal a fairly general system of overt and covert behaviours, enables scientific studies to be undertaken. The MMPI is a personality assessment tool which, although primarily intended for clinical diagnosis, has had certain techniques developed that allow for the study of group or national character. These techniques plus further clinical and content scale analysis, where these scales low or high elevation warrant attention, enables full and reliable group personalities to be identified, described and compared. DA - 1977 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1977 T1 - An MMPI-based study of the personality characteristics of three groups of South African students TI - An MMPI-based study of the personality characteristics of three groups of South African students UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18098 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/18098
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationLison SM. An MMPI-based study of the personality characteristics of three groups of South African students. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1977 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18098en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherPsychologyen_ZA
dc.titleAn MMPI-based study of the personality characteristics of three groups of South African studentsen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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