The Self-Expansiveness Level Form: examination of its validity and relation to the Neo Personality Inventory--Revised

Technology-Focused Expansive Professionals: Developing Continuous Learning in the High-Technology Sector

This article outlines a conceptual model to explain the focus and development of expansive behavior. Key indicators of expansiveness are high self-directed energy, motivation for continuous learning, and an action/applied orientation. Particular attention is given to technology-focused expansive professionals who show continued involvement in knowledge acquisition, discovery, and invention. Emerging technologies impose fast-paced, competitive, global pressures that demand and energize technology-focused expansiveness. However, as technologies stabilize, learning more about oneself and how one relates to others (self-awareness-focused expansiveness) may be important for continuous learning and business success. Human resource challenges for managing technology-focused expansive professionals, creating suitable business cultures, and developing the self-awareness necessitated by business maturity are discussed.

Measures of spiritual and transpersonal constructs for use in yoga research

This article presents information on standardized paper-and-pencil measures of spiritual and transpersonal constructs that hold promise for use in yoga research. Nine instruments are discussed at length including the Assessment Schedule for Altered States of Consciousness, Ego Grasping Orientation, Expressions of Spirituality Inventory, Hindu Religious Coping Scale, Measures of Hindu Pathways, Self-Expansiveness Level Form, Spiritual Orientation Inventory, Spiritual Transcendence Scale, and the Vedic Personality Inventory. As well, a listing of an additional 14 measures, along with primary citations, is provided. In conclusion, the authors proffer recommendations for the use of psychometric tests and provide a general proposal for programmatic research.

Examination of relations between the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised and the Temperament and Character Inventory

The present investigation examined the relation of the Five Factor Model of personality as measured by the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised to the seven-factor model of temperament and character as tapped by the Temperament and Character Inventory by testing a sample of 344 undergraduate students. Correlations and regression analyses suggest there is substantial overlap between the NEO-Personality Inventory-Revised domains and Temperament and Character Inventory dimensions as reflected in multiple correlations ranging from .54 to .80 for the latter when used as predictors of NEO Personality Inventory-Revised domains and .46 to .78 for the former domains when used as predictors of Temperament and Character Inventory dimension scores. Information for constructing the regression equations to allow for the prediction of personality constructs for one model from scores obtained on the other are provided.