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A validation and short form of the Basic Character Inventory
Author(s) -
NEILANDS TORSTEN B.,
SILVERA DAVID H.,
PERRY JUDITH A.,
RICHARDSEN ASTRID,
HOLTE ARNE
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00630.x
Subject(s) - psychology , character (mathematics) , validation test , social psychology , applied psychology , psychometrics , test validity , clinical psychology , geometry , mathematics
The Basic Character Inventory (BCI) contains 136 items, 17 lower‐order personality factors and three higher‐order personality factors derived from psychoanalytic theory: Oral, Obsessive Compulsion, and Hysteria. Previous research that investigated the BCI's psychometric properties examined small, special populations and did not use modern statistical methods to validate the BCI. The present study validates the BCI via confirmatory factor analyses using a large sample of 6,285 Norwegian nursing and teaching students. Reliability, convergent validity, and divergent validity of the BCI were also assessed. Results indicated general support for the original BCI factor structure in a reduced form of the BCI that possesses strong reliability and validity, and is suitable for use in time‐limited measurement settings.