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A TWO‐PART PERSONALITY MEASURE FOR USE AS A RESEARCH CRITERION
Author(s) -
HERON ALASTAIR
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1956.tb00586.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , internal consistency , measure (data warehouse) , consistency (knowledge bases) , variety (cybernetics) , criterion validity , independence (probability theory) , social psychology , clinical psychology , personality assessment inventory , psychometrics , developmental psychology , statistics , data mining , artificial intelligence , mathematics , computer science
present paper describes development and evaluation of a 20 min. two‐part personality measure suitable for use as a research criterion in a wide variety of situations. One part provides a score of emotional maladjustment based on twenty of seventy‐four items, having an internal consistency of 0.81; other part a score of sociability based on twelve of thirty‐six items, having an internal consistency of 0.74. Evidence is presented for validity of both scores, and for their independence of age and intelligence as assessed in adequately heterogeneous samples.