For several years, the Mary Conover Mellon Foundation has supported a research program, the main purpose of which is to increase our understanding of the processes of learning and personality development in undergraduates who attend a women's liberal arts college. 1 The research has made use of a variety of information concerning both students and alumnae (15,16,18). Data have been collected by means of interviews, testing, and general observation.The present paper reports some results of the personality testing program. Although at the research level there is always some confusion in distinguishing between attitudes, interests, values, and the like, it seems reasonable to regard most personality inventory responses as expressions of attitudes, including attitudes about the self. The test items to be discussed concern human feelings and experiences which are quite general; for some purposes they are probably superior to the more specific kinds of items found in interest inventories (3,13).Students undergo changes in attitudes, in widely varying degrees, while attending college (1, 5,7,8,13,14,15). It is difficult, however, to relate such changes directly to college education; during late 1 During the present study, research staff members included
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