Personal Constructs For University Students

Personal constructs and personal characteristics.

An important issue in personality is the relationship between the life style of an individual, including his outlook, and his objective characteristics or characteristics of his situation. Certainly it would seem that the wayan individual chooses to construe his environment and his place in it should be related to his own characteristics. Thus, a handsome person might be expected to have quite ...

Schizophrenia, personal constructs, and Riedel's constructs.

W. W. Riedel's 1970 report of an investigation of personal constructs, using schizophrenics as Ss, encourages criticism of two major aspects of such endeavors. Unwarranted application of the disease model as a paradigm for studying undesirable conduct produces a series of strategy errors: weak explication of linkages between theory and measurements, noninclusion of relevant demographic data, un...

Personal Constructs in Systemic Practice

Canadian university students’ perceptions of future personal infertility

Objective: University is a time for self-discovery, development of independence and transition to adulthood. It is not well examined whether childless university students also consider the potential of future personal infertility. The objective of this study was to document expectations and perceptions related to personal infertility in a sample of young adults. Methods: Using a qualitative app...

Elicitation of British Army Commanders’ Personal Constructs

The design of information systems to aid the attainment of Situation Awareness would benefit from an understanding of the mental models that commanders reference in assessing situations. This paper presents novel experimental research conducted to elicit the personal constructs that constitute the fabric of British Army commanders’ mental models. For a given scenario, it is shown that four out ...