Gayle Privette
Biographic Data
| ID | 4231722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gayle Privette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gayle |
| FAMILY NAME | Privette |
| SIGNATURE | PRIVETTE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of West Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Empathy and Reactive Depression
Empathy and reactive depression were investigated with 53 women, from 21 to 53 years of age, who worked or planned to work as nurses, counselors, or social workers. Empathy was measured using the Mehrabian and Epstein Questionnaire Measure of Empathic Tendency. The adapted Zung Self-rating Depression Scale was used to measure Depressive Symptomatology, and Paykel's Scale for Life Events was used to identify stressful events. A narrative questionn…
Preferences for Religious or Nonreligious Counseling and Psychotherapy
Religious values in counseling and preferences for religious or secular counseling were investigated in two geographic areas. Over-all, 164 respondents distinguished religious from secular counseling and endorsed the importance of religious issues and the availability of counseling which can deal with religious issues. 51 preferred religious counseling. Small minorities expressed biases against religious or nonreligious counseling. Counseling pre…
Humanistic Constructs and Counseling Homeless Men
The present humanistic model for counseling homeless men assumed that counseling goals evolve from each client's internal frame of reference and may include a positive adaptation to his homeless experience. The model encompasses Rogers' necessary components of psychotherapy, Sullivan's interpersonal theory of psychiatry, Adler's use of wellness and encouragement, and Privette's peak-performance contribution. Factor analysis of history of homeless…
Mental Health Values of Clergy
Multivariate analyses of variance indicated that both religious affiliation and education in counseling of 44 Episcopal and 51 Catholic clergy had over-all effects on their scores on the Mental Health Values Questionnaire. In separate univariate analyses, significant effects were found on six of eight mental health value subscales. On all subscales in which significant interactions occurred, much of the variance was found among the clergy who wer…
Black and White Homeless Men
In this analysis of racial confounds in the study of homelessness and self-actualization, 100 black and 71 white homeless men from a mission and a street environment were compared to test the hypothesis that the prototypes of black and white homeless men are different. Discriminant analysis of items from the Short Index of Self-actualization of Jones and Crandall, willingness to use services, history of homelessness, and self-reported health rati…
Highest Happiness
Descriptions of peak experiences collected from 29 exhibiting artists were compared with parallel data from a comparison group of 123 men and women enrolled in university courses in social sciences. Each person narratively described a personal incident of highest happiness, then rated a series of descriptions on Likert-type scales. A multivariate analysis of variance indicated no significant differences in the two groups' descriptions of peak exp…
Reliability and Readability of Questionnaire
The Questionnaire: Peak Performance and Peak Experience is based on both research and theoretical content found through a comparative analysis of literature germane to peak performance, peak experience, and flow. The Dale-Chall Readability Formula indicated that readability of the questionnaire is at the upper limits of the 9th and 10th grades. A Pearson product-moment correlation, based on 33 paired trials, was used to estimate over-all reliabil…
Experience as a Component of Personality Theory
Two experiential phenomena, performance and feeling, were defined operationally by a model that indicated gradients and possible interrelations between phenomena (Privette, 1985). Six events characterize major gradients and interrelations: peak performance, functioning at one's best; peak experience, highest happiness; flow, intrinsic reward, identified as a sport or game; an average event, identified as an event the preceding afternoon; deepest …
Experience as a Component of Personality Theory
Experience, an internal state or process, has salience, as does behavior, as a basic data category of personality. Two key experiential phenomena, which exemplify experience as a data category, were identified and operationally defined by a model. Peak experience and peak performance were taken to be prototypes of feeling and performance. Possible relations between these phenomena and ramifications for selected behavioral and personality variable…
Peak experience, peak performance, and flow
Description et comparaison detaillee des caracteristiques de trois concepts illustrant des experiences humaines positives: la joie intense («peak experience»), le fonctionnement superieur («peak performance») et l'experience gratifiante intrinseque («flow»)
Factor analysis of peak performance
Academic peer counseling
Experiential Correlates of Peak Intellectual Performance
Experiential correlates of superior intellectual functioning were examined, using a peak performance paradigm. The construct, “peak performance,” is identifiable and measurable and refers to a superior level of functioning, irrespective of type of activity. A tentative topology of peak intellectual performance was based partially on the retrospective self-reports of 21 adult respondents and a factor structure of peak performance reported by 120 a…
Dynamics of Peak Performance
Are there common elements in experiences of high level performance in different activities? This exploratory study initiates a research basis for understanding superior use of human potential. Peak performance, defined operationally as behavior that exceeds one's predictable level of functioning, represents superior use of potential in any human endeavor. Examined were episodes of peak performance reported by adult subjects in four groups: psycho…
Peak experience, peak performance, and flow
Description et comparaison detaillee des caracteristiques de trois concepts illustrant des experiences humaines positives: la joie intense («peak experience»), le fonctionnement superieur («peak performance») et l'experience gratifiante intrinseque («flow»)
Factor analysis of peak performance
Dynamics of Peak Performance
Are there common elements in experiences of high level performance in different activities? This exploratory study initiates a research basis for understanding superior use of human potential. Peak performance, defined operationally as behavior that exceeds one's predictable level of functioning, represents superior use of potential in any human endeavor. Examined were episodes of peak performance reported by adult subjects in four groups: psycho…
Dynamics of Peak Performance
Are there common elements in experiences of high level performance in different activities? This exploratory study initiates a research basis for understanding superior use of human potential. Peak performance, defined operationally as behavior that exceeds one's predictable level of functioning, represents superior use of potential in any human endeavor. Examined were episodes of peak performance reported by adult subjects in four groups: psycho…
Academic peer counseling
Experiential Correlates of Peak Intellectual Performance
Experiential correlates of superior intellectual functioning were examined, using a peak performance paradigm. The construct, “peak performance,” is identifiable and measurable and refers to a superior level of functioning, irrespective of type of activity. A tentative topology of peak intellectual performance was based partially on the retrospective self-reports of 21 adult respondents and a factor structure of peak performance reported by 120 a…
Peak experience, peak performance, and flow
Description et comparaison detaillee des caracteristiques de trois concepts illustrant des experiences humaines positives: la joie intense («peak experience»), le fonctionnement superieur («peak performance») et l'experience gratifiante intrinseque («flow»)
Factor analysis of peak performance
Experience as a Component of Personality Theory
Two experiential phenomena, performance and feeling, were defined operationally by a model that indicated gradients and possible interrelations between phenomena (Privette, 1985). Six events characterize major gradients and interrelations: peak performance, functioning at one's best; peak experience, highest happiness; flow, intrinsic reward, identified as a sport or game; an average event, identified as an event the preceding afternoon; deepest …
Experience as a Component of Personality Theory
Experience, an internal state or process, has salience, as does behavior, as a basic data category of personality. Two key experiential phenomena, which exemplify experience as a data category, were identified and operationally defined by a model. Peak experience and peak performance were taken to be prototypes of feeling and performance. Possible relations between these phenomena and ramifications for selected behavioral and personality variable…
Reliability and Readability of Questionnaire
The Questionnaire: Peak Performance and Peak Experience is based on both research and theoretical content found through a comparative analysis of literature germane to peak performance, peak experience, and flow. The Dale-Chall Readability Formula indicated that readability of the questionnaire is at the upper limits of the 9th and 10th grades. A Pearson product-moment correlation, based on 33 paired trials, was used to estimate over-all reliabil…
Highest Happiness
Descriptions of peak experiences collected from 29 exhibiting artists were compared with parallel data from a comparison group of 123 men and women enrolled in university courses in social sciences. Each person narratively described a personal incident of highest happiness, then rated a series of descriptions on Likert-type scales. A multivariate analysis of variance indicated no significant differences in the two groups' descriptions of peak exp…
Black and White Homeless Men
In this analysis of racial confounds in the study of homelessness and self-actualization, 100 black and 71 white homeless men from a mission and a street environment were compared to test the hypothesis that the prototypes of black and white homeless men are different. Discriminant analysis of items from the Short Index of Self-actualization of Jones and Crandall, willingness to use services, history of homelessness, and self-reported health rati…
Preferences for Religious or Nonreligious Counseling and Psychotherapy
Religious values in counseling and preferences for religious or secular counseling were investigated in two geographic areas. Over-all, 164 respondents distinguished religious from secular counseling and endorsed the importance of religious issues and the availability of counseling which can deal with religious issues. 51 preferred religious counseling. Small minorities expressed biases against religious or nonreligious counseling. Counseling pre…
Humanistic Constructs and Counseling Homeless Men
The present humanistic model for counseling homeless men assumed that counseling goals evolve from each client's internal frame of reference and may include a positive adaptation to his homeless experience. The model encompasses Rogers' necessary components of psychotherapy, Sullivan's interpersonal theory of psychiatry, Adler's use of wellness and encouragement, and Privette's peak-performance contribution. Factor analysis of history of homeless…
Mental Health Values of Clergy
Multivariate analyses of variance indicated that both religious affiliation and education in counseling of 44 Episcopal and 51 Catholic clergy had over-all effects on their scores on the Mental Health Values Questionnaire. In separate univariate analyses, significant effects were found on six of eight mental health value subscales. On all subscales in which significant interactions occurred, much of the variance was found among the clergy who wer…
Empathy and Reactive Depression
Empathy and reactive depression were investigated with 53 women, from 21 to 53 years of age, who worked or planned to work as nurses, counselors, or social workers. Empathy was measured using the Mehrabian and Epstein Questionnaire Measure of Empathic Tendency. The adapted Zung Self-rating Depression Scale was used to measure Depressive Symptomatology, and Paykel's Scale for Life Events was used to identify stressful events. A narrative questionn…
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Experiential learning (3 works)