College norms for the Leary Interpersonal Checklist.

Abstract

Leary system of interpersonal diagnosis is a useful tool for clinicians andresearchers. This article contributes to the normative data pool for the LearyInterpersonal Checklist by presenting scores for 246 female and 228 male collegestudents. These data include standard scores for DOM and LOV (dominanceand love, loosely) as subjects rated self, mother, father, and ideal.There is a renewal of interest in systems fordescription and diagnosis based on interpersonalinteraction (Duncan & Fisk, 1977; McLemore& Benjamin, 1979). According to McLemore andBenjamin, The concept of interpersonal diag-nosis was most elaborated by Timothy Leary•.(p. 19). According to Cohen (Note 1), Leary'ssystem has proven to be useful in applied clinicalsettings with a variety of patients, including fam-ilies as well as individuals. However, one of thecriticisms of Leary's (1957a) classical work hasbeen the failure to extend the system to a suffi-ciently large N (Carson, 1969; Leary, 1957b;Cohen, Note 1).SubjectsFour hundred seventy-four subjects partici-pated in this study; 52% (246) were female, and48% (228) were male. Ninety-three percent (429)were white, 6% (27) were black, and 1% (5) wereof other racial/ethnic background. With regardto class standing, 41% were freshmen, 31% weresophomores, 18% were juniors, and 9% were se-niors. Ages ranged from 17 to 42 years, with amean of 20.08 and standard deviation of 2.65. Themedian and the modal age were both 19 years.Marital status included 93% single, 5.6% married,and 1.5% divorced. None were widowed, and 13did not respond.MethodVolunteer subjects completed the Leary Inter-personal Checklist (ICL) in groups under the su-pervision of the experimenter. ICL targets

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