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Constructing Personality Tests to Meet a Structural Criterion: Application of the Interpersonal Circumplex
Author(s) -
Gurtman Michael B.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1993.tb01033.x
Subject(s) - psychology , equivalence (formal languages) , personality , interpersonal communication , social psychology , loneliness , test (biology) , neglect , short forms , construct (python library) , psychological testing , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , mathematics , computer science , paleontology , discrete mathematics , psychiatry , biology , programming language
Construct validation of personality tests begins when items are selected according to substantive and structural postulates; nevertheless, substance has generally been emphasized to the neglect of structure. The present approach shows how a structural model—the interpersonal circumplex—could be used to ensure that test items for measures of interpersonal problems (e.g., loneliness, nonassertiveness) faithfully mirror the theoretical characteristics of their constructs. New item statistics are derived with applicability to item analysis and test construction, and the equivalence of item‐curve fitting and circumplex scoring is illuminated.