California Psychological InventoryMAS, Pamela Bianca E.

• Name of Test:

• Author:• Date Published: • Edition/Revision:

California Psychological Inventory

Harrison Gough19571987

• Type of test:•What it measure:• Number of items:• Type of items:• Norm:

Individual/Group Personality

462True-false Intended for both adolescents and adults

DEVELOPMENT

• External criterion strategy• Internal consistency analysis•Mixture of both

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.

• Identify an individual who behaves in a certain way• Predict how an individual will behave and

react in variety of interpersonal situations.

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

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.

EVALUATION

Reliability• test-retest approach• .90

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)