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Peer reviewedLamb, Michael E.; Chuang, Susan S.; Wessels, Holger; Broberg, Anders G.; Hwang, Carl Philip – Child Development, 2002
This longitudinal study investigated the validity of the Five Factor Model of personality with Swedish children ages 2 to 15 years. Findings of item analyses showed consistently reliable irritability, conscientiousness, and positive activity factors, while internal reliability of other factors increased over time. Found that irritability and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
Download full textArnau, Randolph C.; Thompson, Bruce; Rosen, David H. – 1997
The present study was a psychometric evaluation of two recently revised Jungian personality instruments, the Singer-Loomis Type Deployment Inventory (SL-TDI) and the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ). The study also examined the relationship between Jungian personality dimensions and the Five-Factor Model of personality…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Higher Education, Models, Personality Assessment
Pascarella, Ernest T.; Terenzini, Patrick T. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1977
Discriminant analysis was separately employed for men and women in order to determine the independent personality dimensions that discriminate among the four Clark-Trow student types. Two significant discriminant functions placed the male vocational, nonconformist, academic, and collegiate types in positions that are essentially consistent with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Models, Personality Assessment, Personality Studies
Peer reviewedMcNulty, John L.; Harkness, Allan R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Williams, Carolyn L. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
The development of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) scales to measure the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5), a model of personality, is reported. Preliminary scales were refined with the MMPI-A normative sample of 1,620 and a clinical sample of 713 adolescents, and their construct validity was supported. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis, Construct Validity, Models
Peer reviewedGallucci, Nicholas T. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
The contributions of specific scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) to the classification of 180 adolescent substance abusers into groups characterized by aspects of behavioral control were studied. Seven scales made significant contributions to the classification of substance abusers into three groups, with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Classification, Construct Validity
Sjogren, Douglas; And Others – 1969
An instrument for measuring the value orientation of educational administrators was constructed following the model developed by England for measuring the value orientation of managers. The instrument was administered, via mail, to a stratified sample of 210 administrators from five States in the Plains and Rocky Mountain areas. Respondents rated…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Patterns, Literature Reviews, Measurement Instruments
Peer reviewedTrull, Timothy J.; Widiger, Thomas A.; Useda, J. David; Holcomb, Jay; Doan, Bao-Tran; Axelrod, Seth R.; Stern, Barry L.; Gershuny, Beth S. – Psychological Assessment, 1998
Reports on the psychometric properties of a new semistructured interview, the Structured Interview for the Five-Factor Model of Personality (T. Trull and T. Widiger, 1997). Data from clinical and nonclinical samples (187 undergraduates and 46 mental health outpatients) support the reliability and validity of the measure's scores. (SLD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interviews, Mental Disorders, Models
Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC. – 1979
The stimulus for this colloquium was the convergence of several significant developments bearing on the construct validation of standardized tests and other assessment methods. Of these developments, some were fundamental to psychology as a science; others reflected socio-political pressures on measurement in education and employment. The ten…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Educational Practices, Educational Testing, Employment Practices
Peer reviewedPiedmont, Ralph L. – Assessment, 1994
Reliability and construct validity of observer ratings on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) were evaluated in a sample of 101 college students and the observations of 2 people who knew each student. Results document the strong internal consistency of each scale and a factor structure replicating previous findings. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Friendship, Higher Education, Individual Development
Lustig, Myron W. – 1980
A questionnaire containing all 78 items from the three forms of Robert F. Bales' Interpersonal Rating Forms (IRF) was administered to 266 college students to test the reliability and validity of the IRF. The questions asked for self-perceptions about one's roles and behaviors in task groups. The results indicated that the scales are neither…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, College Students, Communication Research, Group Behavior
