THE VALUE PATTERNS OF MEN WHO VOLUNTARILY QUIT SEMINARY TRAINING

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The ministry is one of the oldest, most respected, and most unique professions. Its practitioners are men of uncommon dedication and talent. Although different assignments for ministers require different combinations of abilities and personality traits, it is widely believed that all who enter the ministry, regardless of the specific assignments they may receive, should be more than minimally intelligent and communicative and should have a commitment to a specific pattern of personal values. Although certain spokesmen for the churches deplore the idea of a uniform and regimented clergy, there is considerable agreement among the objectives of different seminaries, and there is a general feeling among lay persons that the minister should be a man of certain distinctions.Measurement of these personal characteristics has become increasingly widespread in recent years as a result of the continuing development and refinement of interest inventories, attitude questionnaires, and value scales. Some writers anticipate that further psychometric exploration of these personality variables will facilitate and enhance the selection of candidates for the ministry [2, 4, 5, 7, 8]. This article reports the results of one such psychometric exploration.

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