Letters From Jenny

• • These letters reveal the story of an older woman and her intense love/hate feelings toward her son, Ross.

  Letters from jenny
• • Alfred baldwin developed this technique to analyze approximately one-third of the letters jenny wrote.

  personal structure analysis
• • refers to the proximity of two items in the letters.

  Contiguity
• Allport used the commonsense technique and grouped the terms into 8 clusters

  1. quarrelsome suspicious
  2. self centered (possessive)
  3. independent autonomous
  4. dramatic intense
  5. aesthetic artistic
  6. aggressive
  7. cynical morbid
  8. sentimental.
• • Jeffrey paige used this technique to extract primary personal dispositions revealed by Jenny’s letters. In all, Paige identified eight factors: aggression, possessiveness, affiliation, autonomy, familial acceptance, sexuality, sentience, and martyrdom.

  Factor analysis