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AN EVALUATION OF THE VALIDITY OF THE PERSONALITY RESEARCH FORM WITH FILIPINO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Author(s) -
Fekken G. Cynthia,
Holden Ronald R.,
Jackson Douglas N.,
Guthrie George M.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598708246781
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , scale (ratio) , personality assessment inventory , rating scale , test validity , personality test , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychometrics , applied psychology , developmental psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
The cross‐cultural validity of a North American personality inventory, namely, the Personality Research Form (Jackson 1984) was examined using 394 university students in the Philippines who were able to speak and read English. Scale validities, with self and peer ratings as criteria, were generally significant but modest. Moderate scale and peer rating reliabilities probably contributed to these results. Elevated scores on a PRF scale designed to detect careless responding suggested failure to understand instructions or insufficient motivation may also account for the findings. Interestingly, recalculating validities for subsamples comprising ‘dependable’ and ‘undependable’ subjects yielded no substantial differences in overall validity. Implications for cross‐cultural personality assessment are discussed.