820 undergraduate students from 7 schools of a major university responded to a checklist of 33 adjectives relating to various aspects of personality. The hypothesis was that the students would be consistent in their self-perceptions within schools and that on the average some schools would differ significantly from each other in general conformity with stereotypic expectations. The results indicated that undergraduate students do show consistency in their self-perceptions within schools and that they differ reliably from school to school, as was the case in an earlier study employing a biographical inventory, although the two instruments tap different aspects of self-perception.
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