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A NEW PERSONALITY TEST FOR BOYS
Author(s) -
GIBSON H. B.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1965.tb01808.x
Subject(s) - psychology , extraversion and introversion , test (biology) , personality , neuroticism , developmental psychology , reading (process) , personality test , social psychology , big five personality traits , psychometrics , test validity , paleontology , biology , political science , law
S ummary . This test was devised to overcome two obstacles to the testing of boys at an age when many are only semi‐literate; (i) the limited reading and verbal capacity of such children, and (ii) the tendency of subjects to be reticent about personal problems. To overcome (i), the items of a simply worded personality inventory were printed separately on cards and illustrated with pictures; to mitigate (ii), the test was heavily buffered with items providing a check on veracity of response, and the material was presented as though it were a test of reading and comprehension. The test was administered individually. Analysis of the results obtained from 285 boys aged 8 to 10 years, revealed two principal components, one explicable in terms of neuroticism and the other in terms of extraversion. Two independent scales were formed representing these personality dimensions. Some preliminary validating data is available from teachers' ratings of the boys' behaviour, scores on the body sway test, and parental interviews by psychiatric social workers.