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Pretest and change score intercorrelations in the validation of behavioral measures of openness
Author(s) -
Tittler Bennett I.,
Weitz Lawrence J.,
Anchor Kenneth N.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197610)32:4<806::aid-jclp2270320415>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - openness to experience , psychology , scale (ratio) , test (biology) , personality test , clinical psychology , california psychological inventory , id, ego and super ego , social psychology , developmental psychology , psychometrics , test validity , personality assessment inventory , personality , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Two behavioral measures of openness (a miniature situations test and a structured self‐disclosure interview), two self‐report measures of openness (the Dogmatism Scale and the Experience Inventory), and the Ego‐strength Scale were administered to 50 S s on two different occasions spaced several weeks apart. One of the behavioral measures, the miniature situations test, correlated positively with the other measures of openness on the pretest. With regard to change scores across the two sessions, the behavioral measures correlated positively with each other and negatively with the self‐report measures of openness and with the Ego‐strength Scale. These results were interpreted as supporting the theoretical supposition that behavioral measures are most suitable for the measurement of short‐term change in openness.