Table 5.

Items from the Personnel Reaction Blank Uniquely Predictive of Externalizing Controlling for MPQ Personality Correlates.

Scale/Item #	Item Content*	r	β
Sense of Well-being:
Item 34	Regret about career choice	.23	.07
Item 68	Perceived sense of wrongdoing	.33	.11
Item 76	Frequent feelings of regret over one's actions	.38	.16
Prosocial Background:
Item 41	Frequent truancy from school	.32	.17
Item 46	Frequently disobeyed parents/guardians	.42	.15
Item 47	Lacked interest in school	.24	.10
Item 56	Strived to do well in school	−.33	−.15
Item 58	Was a nuisance to teachers	.36	.16
Item 61	Frequent classroom misbehavior/sent to principal	.42	.21
Item 63	Parents/guardians disapproved of friends	.32	.14
Compliance with Social Norms:
Item 64	Willing to take risks if prompted	.35	.11
Item 71	Is honest if given back too much change at store	−.14	−.06
Item 73	Strictly observes right and wrong	−.17	−.07
Conventional Occupational Preferences:
Item 21	Interested in working as night club entertainer	.24	.09

Note. All coefficients listed above are significant at p < .01. Beta coefficients remained significant in their prediction of ESI-100 scores after inclusion of the MPQ primary scale scores in the regression model.

^*A list of the specific items from the PRB is available from the test publisher (Institute for Personality and Ability Testing).