The Personal Orientation Dimensions (POD) is a measure of attitudes and values in terms of concepts of the actualizing person - one who is more fully functioning and lives a more enriched life. The POD represents a refinement and extension of concepts first measured by the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) and meets the need of counselors, therapists and personnel administrators for a comprehensive objective measure of concepts in humanistic psychology. The independence of the concepts measured makes results readily adaptable to statistical treatment and provides a more precise measure of these concepts than any other instrument available. The POD makes operational the theoretical work of Maslow and rhythmic polarity concepts of the author. POD items are comparatively non-threatening which facilitates communication of the results and provides a positive approach to personality assessment.
The dimensions are . . .