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A validation and short form of the Basic Character Inventory
Torsten B Neilands1, David H Silvera, Judith A Perry
1Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, Box 0886, 50 Beale Street, Suite 1300, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. tor@ucsf.edu
Abstract:
The Basic Character Inventory (BCI) contains 136 items, 17 lower-order personality factors and three higher-order personality factors derived from psychoanalytic theory: Oral, Obsessive Compulsion, and Hysteria. Previous research that investigated the BCI's psychometric properties examined small, special populations and did not use modern statistical methods to validate the BCI. The present study validates the BCI via confirmatory factor analyses using a large sample of 6,285 Norwegian nursing and teaching students. Reliability, convergent validity, and divergent validity of the BCI were also assessed. Results indicated general support for the original BCI factor structure in a reduced form of the BCI that possesses strong reliability and validity, and is suitable for use in time-limited measurement settings.
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