Affiliation:
1. Appalachian State University
2. Ohio State University
Abstract
Many theorists have written about personality structures associated with positive mental health (2, 3). Conceptual systems theory provides one framework for identifying these structures (5). The purpose of this study was to replicate Wexler's finding that self-actualization is related to conceptual structure for 117 female undergraduates who completed four measures of conceptual structure and a measure of self-actualization not used in the original Wexler study, the Personal Orientation Inventory. The measures of conceptual structure included the Interpersonal Discrimination Test (1), the Wyer Integration Test (6), the Interpersonal Topical Inventory (4), and the Paragraph Completion Tesr.