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    • Personality Assessment

    Background:

    • The Comrey Personality Scales are a psychological instrument designed to measure personality traits.
    • Assessing the construct validity of personality tests is crucial for their reliable application in research and clinical settings.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the construct validity of the Comrey Personality Scales.
    • To determine the extent to which biographical data correlates with scores on the eight personality scales.

    Main Methods:

    • Administered the Comrey Personality Scales and a biographical data inventory to 209 volunteer U.C.L.A. students.
    • Correlated biographical data variables with scores on the eight personality scales.
    • Correlated author estimates of scale scores (based on biographical data) with actual scale scores.

    Main Results:

    • The Social Conformity vs Rebelliousness and Orderliness vs. Lack of Compulsion scales demonstrated the strongest construct validity.
    • Correlations between biographical data and personality scale scores provided moderate to negligible support for the validity of the remaining scales.

    Conclusions:

    • The findings provide partial support for the construct validity of the Comrey Personality Scales.
    • The Social Conformity and Orderliness scales appear to be the most robust measures within the Comrey Personality Scales.