Organizational researchers continually strive to establish models and patterns to predict the behavior of employees within the organizational context. However, much of this research relating to personality types has been conducted in silos. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to explore the relationships among Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, A/B Personality Types, and Locus of Control. Data were ...

conclusions diagnosing type d personality and knowing about the effect of these perceptions can help physician to identify patients with prone personality and prevent them from the disease by changing their lifestyle. results ninety-nine chd patients, with the mean age of 59.7 years (age range, 20 - 86) were studied and 58.8% of them were males. cronbach’s alpha for quality of life and type d p...

after the victory of the islamic revolution of iran a great number of islamic jurists entered the political scene, an event which made iranian politics to a great extent under a legalist approach. considering the structure of law and the way jurists look at reality, they have a different type of personality from other politicians. using the ideal type method, this article attempts to study isla...

This study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between teachers' personality type (feeling vs. thinking) and speaking skill of pre- intermediate EFL students in Iranian context. Twelve teachers and forty eight students from a local language institute participated in the study. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), an instrument based on Jung’s personality theory, was taken from tea...

BACKGROUND By using the conventional method of measuring two-points (systolic and diastolic) blood pressure, it is difficult to differentiate a heart disease-prone personality from normals. Recently, an oscillometric method that reflects the personalized trait of blood pressure was developed by one author. OBJECTIVE By using this new measurement technique, this study intended to test the poss...

In any group of subjects to whom the Allport Test for Measuring Ascendance-Submission has been given there are frequently found individuals whose personality types seem to be in sharp contrast with the types indicated by the scores made on the Allport Test. Such discrepancies between estimates and scores seem to indicate a possible divergence between the possession of certain personality traits...

We examined change and stability of the 3 personality types identified by Block and Block (1980) and studied their links with adjustment and relationships. We used data from a 5-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents, thereby covering the ages of 12-20 years. In Study 1, systematic evidence for personality change was found, in that the number of overcontrollers and...

Predator-prey interactions play important roles in ecological communities. Personality, consistent inter-individual differences in behaviour, of predators, prey or both are known to influence inter-specific interactions. An individual may also behave differently under the same situation and the level of such variability may differ between individuals. Such intra-individual variability (IIV) or ...