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A multiple-choice version of the sentence completion method.

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    A new multiple choice (MC) test effectively measures children's autonomy, mirroring results from the original sentence completion (SC) format. This validated MC adaptation offers a practical alternative for assessing personality development.

    Area of Science:

    • Child Psychology
    • Psychometric Assessment
    • Personality Development

    Background:

    • Sentence completion (SC) measures are valuable for assessing children's autonomy.
    • Adapting such measures to a multiple choice (MC) format can increase accessibility and ease of administration.
    • Ensuring the equivalence of SC and MC forms is crucial for reliable and valid psychological assessment.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To adapt a sentence completion (SC) measure of children's autonomy into a multiple choice (MC) format.
    • To establish criteria for evaluating the psychometric equivalence between the SC and MC versions.
    • To determine if the MC format serves as a reasonable alternative to the SC format for assessing children's autonomy.

    Main Methods:

    • Proposed specific criteria for MC test equivalence to SC, focusing on response obscurity, statistical similarity (means, variances), social desirability, and inter-test correlation.

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  • Administered both SC and MC versions of the autonomy measure to children.
  • Analyzed the data to compare the psychometric properties and factor structures of the two test formats.

    • Main Results:

    • The multiple choice (MC) format met most proposed criteria for equivalence to the sentence completion (SC) measure.
    • The MC test did not appear obvious to children, and its statistical properties (means, variances) were similar to the SC test.
    • Both SC and MC tests demonstrated significant correlation, and the MC format largely replicated the factor structure of the SC test, indicating construct validity.

    Conclusions:

    • The adapted multiple choice (MC) measure is a psychometrically sound and reasonable alternative to the sentence completion (SC) measure for assessing children's autonomy.
    • This MC adaptation facilitates the assessment of clearly defined personality areas in children.
    • The findings support the use of validated MC tests as practical tools in child psychology research and practice.