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Retzlaff, Paul; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
Construction and validation of the Personality Adjective Inventory, a new test of personality based on Murray's need-press theory and following the lead of the Personality Research Form is described. The inventory shows excellent psychometric properties across several measures of reliability, stability, and validity. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Personality Measures, Psychometrics, Rating Scales

Wilson, F. Robert; Cook, Ellen Piel – Sex Roles, 1984
Compares concurrent validity of four sex-role instruments administered to a group of 281 urban university students. Reports that the instruments are sufficiently different in their measurement characteristics to warrant limiting generalizations about behavior based on these instruments to a particular instrument being used. (KH)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Personality Measures, Psychological Studies, Psychometrics

Abbott, Robert D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
Presents a series of analyses of Jackson's Personality Research Form items and scales to determine the apparent effects of the use of the differential validity index on more traditional item psychometric indices which have been used to reduce the confounding of trait scales and social desirability. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Factor Analysis, Item Analysis, Matrices
Besyner, James K.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1978
This article describes an attempt to differntiate Holland's six types by means of personality need variables. Participants were administered Holland's VPI and Jackson's Personality Research Form (PRF). One-way analyses of variance revealed that PRF variables could not differentiate Holland's six types. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Personality Assessment

Harper, Frank B. W. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
The Personality Research Form and the Achievement Anxiety Test were compared to the Thematic Apperception Test and Mandler-Sarason Test Anxiety Questionnaire. The former were equally reliable and valid measures of motive for success and motive to avoid failure. The ease of administration and scoring would recommend their use to researchers.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Comparative Analysis, Failure
Jackson, Douglas N.; And Others – 1971
In a comparative evaluation of a standard true-false format for personality assessment and a forced-choice format, subjects from college residential units were assigned randomly to respond either to the forced-choice or standard true-false form of the Personality Research Form (PRF). All subjects also rated themselves and the members of their…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, College Housing, College Students, Comparative Analysis