ADLERIAN PERSONALITY PRIORITIES - PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ATTITUDINAL DIFFERENCES

This study investigated the relationship between Adlerian personality priorities (pleasing, achieving, outdoing, detaching, avoiding) and se veral selected psychological and attitudinal variables theoretically l inked to those priorities. Two hundred sixty-two undergraduate student s completed measures of personality priority, locus of control, social interest, self-esteem, and dysfunctional attitudes. Results revealed significant differences between the various personality priorities on measures of self-esteem, social interest, internal locus of control, a nd dysfunctional attitudes. These findings lend empirical support for the use of personality priorities as a tool for conceptualizing client s. Implications for counseling practice and future research on persona lity priorities are presented.