A model for place evaluation is developed through a facet theoretical study of a convention center. A questionnaire viewing user satisfaction was given to 86 respondents. Similarity structure analysis produced a three-facet solution, with facets of referent (life area) with elements of social, service, spatial, and aesthetic; focus (centrality) with elements of central and peripheral; and level with elements of internal physical, external, and internal atmosphere. Partial order structuple analysis with base coordinates identified individuals in terms of their responses to these facets of place evaluations. Respondents were classified as either structuring their principal evaluations in terms of either social and service aspects of the location or in terms of features relating to spatial, aesthetic, physical qualities, and elements that were central to subjects' location-specific purpose. The results are compared with previous facet studies, which have enabled a generic model of place evaluation to be developed.

The paper reports the development of a 17 item questionnaire to measure the approachability of family practice consultations. Approachability is selectively taken to be a function of the ability to make an appointment and as a perception of whether the family doctor is open and approachable. One hundred and six users of family practice services, were approached on an opportunity basis and completed the questionnaire. Factor analysis and reliability analysis demonstrated the instrument to be structured by three significant factors. The factors were labelled 'the doctor','the consultation environment' and 'emotions'. The questionnaire is subject to further development to allow its wider use to gauge the effects of individual consultations on patients.

Motivation for receiving orthodontic treatment is systematically investigated and a multivariate model of this process advanced. An interview schedule is developed out of a mapping sentence and administered to a sample of respondents all of whom had been previously classified as having high need for orthodontic treatment (n = 109). Smallest Space Analyses (SSA) of this data revealed two facets of motivation; treatment reason and information source. The elements of each of these facets (treatment reason = psychological, physical health; source = self, family, dentist) are discussed. Partial Order Scalogram Analysis by base Coordinates (POSAC) is used to demonstrate the roles played by each facet element in structuring motivations. This reflected internal versus external forms of motivation. In this family sources and psychological reasons (internal) form the first dimension of differentiation between respondents, the second (external) being made up of physical reasons. The dentist and self sources were found to play relatively minor roles.

Described within this paper is an approach to the assessment and understanding of the reasons an individual orthodontic consumer possesses for undergoing intervention for malocclusion. The facet theory approach is reviewed as it applies to dental well being and a mapping sentence is proposed as a template which may be employed in investigating treatment motives. Caveats are issued regarding assumptions of simple causal linkages between malocclusion and dental/orthodontic state.

Critics of the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI) allege that (1) it is not a homogeneous measure of cognitive style, (2) the traditional three-factor model leaves too much unexplained variance so that more parsimonious scales provide a more homogeneous factor structure, and (3) the inventory confounds level and style. These propositions have been tested for samples of experienced managers in the U.K. (N = 156), Australia (N = 143) and the U.S. (N = 131), and for the combined sample (N = 430). The 13-item measure suggested by Taylor [(1989b) Personality and Individual Differences, 9, 921–929] produced more coherent factors than either Taylor's 20-item measure or the 32-item KAI, though with some loss of internal reliability. Taylor's claim that the abridged versions of the KAI would produce orthogonal factors was not substantiated. Kirton's claim for the homogeneity of the KAI is supported. Exploratory factor analysis confirms Taylor's suggestion that the Sufficiency of Originality (SO) subscale be divided into subfactors indicating preference for the generation and support of novel ideas and preference for change/stability. However, the view that either the KAI or the SO scale confounds level and style is not accepted.

Investigation of the relationship between the extent of 34 senior managers' use of applications software and their adaptive-innovative cognitive style shows that the extent of software use correlates with total scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory; it is also positively related to two of the subscales measuring Sufficiency of Originality and Rule-conformity but negatively related to the third subscale measuring Efficiency. Three forms of the Kirton inventory, the 32-item measure devised by Kirton and two abridged versions recently proposed by Taylor, produce substantially similar results when used as unitary measures of adaption-innovation and for the subscales.

There is an increasing body of literature concerned with what has come to be known as Bi-modal. or Bi-modality, (personality) theory. This article contains a brief resume of Bi-modality Theory and its two behavior modes of Agonic and Hedonic. The development of a questionnaire to assess personal preference for operating within each modality is reported. The theory is brought to the reader's attention. and a direction in which the theory may be extended in the future is outlined. References are provided to guide those interested in further reading.

Social science literature which has addressed concern for the quality of the natural environment is reviewed. The development of multidimensional models is identified as a contemporary theme in this and environmental psychology research. The results of research by Hackett, 1987, 1989, 1992a&b, in press, and Hackett & Florence, 199 1, are reviewed and a multivariate model of environmental concern is developed. Commonality of structure is found to exist in environmental concern attitudes/values within this model. However, environmental conservation action and/or issue specific variables are found to be important in structuring evaluations.