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Measurement of ego development by sentence completion and personality test
Author(s) -
Lorr Maurice,
Manning Tracey T.
Publication year - 1978
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(197804)34:2<354::aid-jclp2270340217>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - sentence completion tests , psychology , loevinger's stages of ego development , personality , id, ego and super ego , discriminant function analysis , personality assessment inventory , test (biology) , california psychological inventory , developmental psychology , socialization , personality test , dimension (graph theory) , psychometrics , psychological testing , test validity , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , pure mathematics , biology , paleontology
Study aims were (a) to compare the characteristics of the ego development stages as reveated by incomplete sentences and personality inventory scales; and (b) to ascretain how well a structured inventory can estimate ego development as assessed by Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test (SCT). S s were 423 girls and 225 boys from five high schools five high schools, who were administered the Interpersonal Style Inventory (ISI) and the SCT. The ego development groups to which the boys and girls were allocated on the basis of the SCT scores were compared by means of discriminant function analysis. The 27 self‐report scores from the ISI and a supplementary form were used as predictors. The analyses revealed two dimensions of differences for the girls and one for the boys. The first dimension, defined primearily by level of socialization, was essentially the same for girls and boys. The second dimension for girls involved degree of rule‐boundness.