TY - JOUR A1 - Pendse, Suripad G. T1 - An Empirical Validity Test of Fromm's Personality Orientations Theory JF - Journal of General Psychology, Provincetown Vol. 99 (1978), pp. 133-139. N2 - E. FROMM (1947, 1955) has described each of 4 personality orientations (Receptive, Exploitative, Hoarding, and Marketing) by a list of adjectives. The present experiment investigated whether these adjectives have a reasonable degree of cohesiveness to constitute one orientation. 92 male and female university students were asked to check adjectives on FROMM's list that applied to them. Adjectives were alphabetically presented. The average intercorrelation among adjectives comprising each orientation was calculated and compared with average intercorrelations for 1,000 randomly selected combinations of adjectives. FROMM's orientations obtained high percentile ranks compared to simulated combinations. Adjective combinations were then chosen on the basis of factor analysis of half the data. The factor analytic combinations were also compared with 1,000 simulated combinations. Percentile ranks of FROMM's combinations were similar to those obtained by factor analytical combinations. FROMM's descriptions of personality orientations are seen to have a reasonable degree of cohesiveness, especially the Exploitative and Marketing orientations. Y1 - 1978 ER -