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A cross‐cultural unisex ideal self scale for the adjective check list
Author(s) -
Gough Harrison G.,
Fioravanti Mario,
Lazzari Renato
Publication year - 1979
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(197904)35:2<314::aid-jclp2270350219>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - psychology , adjective check list , adjective , social desirability , social psychology , scale (ratio) , congruence (geometry) , developmental psychology , noun , personality , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Item analyses of self‐report and ideal‐self Adjective Check List protocols of 100 American men, 146 American women, 95 Italian males, and 134 Italian females permitted the identification of 46 items that showed consistent and statistically significant differentiations. The Ideal Self scale (Iss) comprised of these items had internal alpha reliabilities of .86, .86, .84, and .82 in the four subsamples. Correlations between Iss and phi coefficients of congruence between self protocols were .72, .75, .45, and .51 in the same four samples. Iss was moderately related to social desirability (median r = .40), but gave rise to a pattern of descriptive ratings rather different from that produced by the desirability measure. Iss scores on self‐report protocols were indicative of social effectiveness and goal‐attaining abilities among high‐scorers, and of constriction and social ineffectiveness among low‐scorers.