Coefficients alpha for 231 women and 112 men at a counseling center ranged across subscales of the Brief Symptom Inventory from .70 to .88. Values are comparable to those in the manual. Symptom patterns are similar to those of the psychiatric patients described in the manual.

Summav.-The major purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the relation between perfectionism and Millon's basic personality patterns. The subjects were 91 clients (60 women and 31 men) at two midwestern university counseling services (ns = 38 and 24) and a private-practice office (n = 29). The subjects completed the Millon inventory and two perfectionism scales i n one session. Scores on perfectionism were most strongly related to the passive-aggressive, avoidant, schizoid, and dependent scores. Also, there was a significant negatlve relation between perfectionism and the compulsive pattern. It was suggested ~h a r [he present study be replicared with the Millon-I1 and that the differences between perfectionism and compulsiveness be explored further.People with perfectionistic characteristics tend to have unrealistically high standards and measure their self-worth almost entirely in terms of their productivity (Burns, 1980). In an attempt to gain more understanding about perfectionism, certain typologies have been theoretically derived, e.g., Burns (1983) suggested there are career, marital, emotional, moral, and sexual perfectionists; Hamachek (1978) differentiated normal from neurotic perfectionists; and Sorotzkin (1985) created a dichotomy of neurotic versus narcissistic perfectionists. Unfortunately no typology has been empirically based, so it remains unclear which types of people are more prone than others to have perfectionistic tendencies.A typology of personality that has received a lot of attention recently is Millon's (1981Millon's ( , 1984 framework. Millon's system is based on biological social, and psychological data about personality. Fortunately, Millon developed an inventory, the Mdon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (1983), to measure empirically his eight basic personality patterns, viz., schizoid, avoidant, dependent, histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial, compulsive, and passive-aggressive. The purpose of the present brief report was to examine empirically the relation between perfectionism and the Millon basic personality patterns. Sample and ProcedureThe subjects were 91 clients (60 women and 31 men) at two midwestern university counseling services (ns = 38 and 24) and a private-practice office (n = 29). The mean age was 25 yr. (SD = 5.0, range = 18 to 51 yr.); all but one subject were white. A l l subjects were students, and their ed-'Re uests for reprints should be sent to Steven

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between the Introversion-Extroversion Scale (IE) and the Occupational Scales of the 1985 Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). The subjects were 153 female and 70 male career-counseling clients at a university counseling service. The results indicated that introversion was highly related to realistic and investigative occupations, and that extroversion was highly related to social and enterprising occupations. Also, the occupations which showed the greatest sex differences in IE tended to involve business interests, with the males being more extroverted than the females; it was suggested that males might enter business occupations at least in part to have their social needs met.

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