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This article presents a theoretical, and data-supported defense of an approximation to a true personality profile in the context of a study of the individual person in four small groups of graduate students and in one culturally heterogeneous group of educators. Assessment methods include parallel profiles of a well-constructed inventory, peer ratings, and self-ratings, all based on a common set of construct definitions. In combination, the three methods provide composite profiles of high temporal stability, with essential contributions from each method. Discriminant validity of the composite profile is demonstrated through substitution of both randomly generated profiles and impostor profiles (i.e., single-method or composite profiles of another person) for the legitimate profiles of the subject under study.This article is an expanded version of a paper originally presented in the context of a topical discussion entitled "Nomovalidation and Idiovalidation" conducted by the author at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association,

An abbreviated form of the original five-section Phillips Rating Scale of Premorbid Adjustment in Schizophrenia, consisting of Part I, Abbreviated Scale of Premorbid Sexual Adjustment in Schizophrenia and Part II, Abbreviated Scale of Premorbid Personal-Social Adjustment, has been developed, utilizing a 7-point scale (0-6) for each part. Advantages of the Abbreviated Scale, for which adequate interrater reliability and validity have been demonstrated, are brevity, economy of time and effort, reduction of redundancy and overlap among items of different sections of the original scale, and elimination of detail for which information is minimal or highly variable (e.g., most recent history in multiple admissions) in the typical case history folder. Cross-cultural samples and validation based on measures of hospitalization are included in the analysed.The Phillips Rating Scale of Premorbid Adjustment in Schizophrenia (Phillips, 1953) has been shown to be effective in differentiating the performance of subgroups of schizophrenic patients in a variety of experimental studies conducted during the past two decades (Garmezy, 196S; Garmezy & Rodnick, 19S9; Rodnick & Garmezy, 19S7). While acknowledging the usefulness of the instrument, investigators who have relied on the PhillipsThe author acknowledges with appreciation the significant contribution of Leslie Phillips, and in presenting the Abbreviated Scales, reconfirms, two decades later, the value of the original work. Appreciation is expressed also to Sidney Steinberg, a student in the College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky at the time the first abbreviated scale was formulated and the preliminary collection of data was completed;

The Peace Corps has been involved in the assessment, selection, and placement of trainees and Volunteers for more than a decade. Until the summer of 1970, a contingent of senior psychologists, primarily of clinical orientation from a number of universities throughout the nation, had played a major role in the selection of Volunteers, by serving in a consultant capacity as chairmen of selection boards.It was the task of each such field selection officer to serve as the coordinator of assessment and selection for individual programs, beginning with initial interviews or orientation sessions prior to, or at the beginning of, training programs, and to conduct, in a relatively democratic style, the two board sessions scheduled for review of trainees midway through, and at the end of, the typically fourmonth training programs. In addition, it was the

The author is particularly indebted to the former country directors and staff members of Tonga and Micronesia for their contributions to the field ratings and for administrative support of the research study. Appreciation is expressed also to the administrative and training staff members of the University of Hawaii in Hilo, and to persons in the Office of Volunteer Placement,