Expressive styles and their measurement

Presents theoretical formulations concerning the motoric, ideational, and sensory-perceptual expressive dimensions. The dimensions are defined as general orientations toward the world of objects including the self. The development of the Motoric Ideational Sensory Test (MIST) as an instrumentation for the measurement of the dimensions is described. A sample of 91 male and 96 female undergraduates served as Ss for the MIST development. A 2nd sample of 133 female and 116 male Ss were utilized for a test-retest reliability study, and for observing sex differences. Following the test development, 8 expressive style types were derived representing homogeneous sets of pattern scores across the 3 dimensions. The validity of the expressive styles was then studied in relation to classes of variables pertaining to personality and cognitive factors. (19 ref.)