The intercorrelations among Personal Orientation Inventory scale scores for a sample of 93 clergymen entering a clinical training program at a state hospital were computed. It was observed that these correlations were generally significantly greater for Ss than the correlations reported in the POI manual and by other researchers for samples of college students.
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