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    • Personality Assessment
    • Psychometrics

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    • Self-perception is crucial in understanding individual differences.
    • Existing measures of self-perception can be lengthy.
    • The Gough Adjective Check List (ACL) is a well-established tool.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a concise and reliable instrument for measuring self-perception.
    • To identify the most salient items representing key factors of self-perception.
    • To validate the new instrument for rapid, quantified self-description.

    Main Methods:

    • Factor analysis was applied to Gough's 300-item ACL to identify core self-perception factors.
    • The highest-loading items for each factor were selected.
    • A new 66-item scale was created and administered to 713 female teacher trainees.
    • Internal consistency, test-retest stability, and concurrent validity were assessed.

    Main Results:

    • Factor analysis successfully replicated the original seven factors of self-perception.
    • The new 66-item scale demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency and test-retest stability.
    • Correlations with another self-description inventory confirmed the concurrent validity of the developed instrument.

    Conclusions:

    • A brief, reliable, and valid instrument for quantified self-description has been developed.
    • This new instrument is valuable for efficient assessment of self-perception.
    • The findings support the utility of factor analysis in creating concise psychological measures.