Steel mill “hot strip” accidents and interpersonal desirability values

Abstract

CONCLUSIONSArmy general prisoners deviate significantly in all clinical scales of the MMPI regardless of their psychiatric classification when compared with a "normal" group of soldiers ; that is, when compared with Schmidt's normal group, they have more neurotic; psychopathic and psychotic trends.MMPI results suggest that there is a general personality pattern somewhat typical of all general prisoners with elevation particularly in the variables of psychopathy and hypomania.The writer suggests that if some inventory such as the MMPI were used to screen recruits for the Army those with elevated Pd and /or Ma scales (65 or higher) should have (a) a thorough psychiatric case report and (b) a subsequent thorough psychiatric interview before they could be considered suitable for enlistment.

Groupthink: Hypothesis in Need of Testing

“…Evidence to support this has been found in military situations (Goodacre, 1951;Hemphill & Sechrest, 1952;Strupp & Housman, 1953) and in industrial settings (Van Zelst, 1952a, 1952bSperoff & Kerr, 1952).…”

Job Satisfaction and Interpersonal Desirability Values

“…Likes -Dislikes = Interpersonal Desirability Value (12). Some workers received as high as five "like" nominations, others received as low as three "dislike" nominations while many workers received neither "like" nor "dislike" nominations.…”

Fuzzy Nominating Technique to Determine Fuzzy Preference Index of a Player in Kabaddi

“…Accident proneness is inversely correlated with sociometric choices received (Speroff & Kerr, 1952;Fuller & Baune, 1951;Zeleny, 1947).…”