California Psychological Inventory

California Psychological Inventory by Harrison Gough (1957/1987)
Includes:
*Development
*Uses
*Administration and Scoring
*Interpretation
*Evaluation
*Scales
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1. California Psychological Inventory MAS, Pamela Bianca E.

2. Name of Test: Author: Date Published: Edition/Revision: California Psychological Inventory Harrison Gough 1957 1987

3. Type of test: What it measure: Number of items: Type of items: Norm: Individual/Group Personality 462 True-false Intended for both adolescents and adults

4. DEVELOPMENT External criterion strategy Internal consistency analysis Mixture of both

5. USES/PURPOSE Predict delinquency, leadership, parole outcome, college attendance, performance and others. Predicts job performance in a number of careers as well as performance in school. Effectively used with problems of social behavior and delinquency.

6. Identify an individual who behaves in a certain way Predict how an individual will behave and react in variety of interpersonal situations.

7. ADMINISTRATION Individual or group setting Usually an hour SCORING Counting number of items endorsed on each scale and plotting the raw scores on a profile

8. INTERPRETATION Check on three validity scales Scoring above average = more behavior consistency in dominant/high scores Scoring below average = more behavior consistency in low scores Overlap leads to clustering.

9. EVALUATION Reliability test-retest approach .90

10. SCALES Do (dominance) Cs (Capacity for status) Sy (Sociability) Sp (Social persistence) Sa (Self-acceptance) Wb (Sense of well-being) Re (Responsibility) So (socialization Sc (Self-control) To (Tolerance) Gi (Good impression) Cm (Communality) Ac (Achievement-conformance) Ai (Achievement-independence) Ie ( Intell . Efficiency) Py ( Psychlgc’l -mindedness) Fx (Flexibility) Fe (Femininity)