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19702
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English
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Personality and Adjustment Among Mormon Missionaries
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Lubbock, Texas
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Texas Tech University
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Ph.D.
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"The personality traits associated with adjustment to Mormon missionary service were identified by examining the responses to 250 former Mormon missionaries to a questionnaire about missionary service, the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), and a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Denial scale. The participants, 54 women and 196 men, were student volunteers recruited from undergraduate courses at Brigham Young University. An inverse relationship was found between adjustment and NEO-PI Neuroticism scale scores. Adjustment was positively related to NEO-PI Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness scale scores. The MMPI Denial scale was also positively associated with mission adjustment. Women had significantly lower scores on the missionary Adjustment scale than men. Multiple regression procedures indicated that the personality variables used in this study accounted for 23 percent of the variance in mission adjustment. The NEO-PI Neuroticism and Extraversion scales alone accounted for 21 percent of the variance in mission adjustment." [Author's abstract]