The Personal Orientation Dimensions (POD) (Shostrom, 1975) has been developed as a refinement and extension of the measurement of concepts of actualizing. Samples nominated as actualizing or as non-actualizing were administered the POD to establish the validity of the instrument for differentiating between such clinically recognized populations. That all scales significantly differentiated these samples thus demonstrated the validity of the POD for discriminating between samples clinically observed to be actualizing or non-actualizing.
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