The Political Personality of Bill Clinton: A Psychodiagnostic Meta Analysis

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-1995

Disciplines

American Politics | Leadership Studies | Other Psychology | Personality and Social Contexts

Abstract

This paper reports the results of an exploratory political personality assessment of U.S. president Bill Clinton, derived from psychodiagnostic meta-analysis of biographical information in the public domain, and designed to place personological knowledge from diverse sources and divergent perspectives into a coherent psychodiagnostic framework.

Comments

A slightly revised version of this paper, titled “‘All the men’s president’ — The political personality of Bill Clinton,” was published in the 1995 issue of the St. John’s University faculty journal The Saint John’s Symposium, vol. 13, pp. 36–46. (Available at Digital Commons website: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_pubs/22/)

Related link: http://personality-politics.org/bill-clinton

Related report

Immelman, A. (1998, Autumn). The political personalities of 1996 U.S. presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. The Leadership Quarterly, 9(3), 335-366. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1048-9843(98)90035-2 (Available at Digital Commons: http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_pubs/3/)

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