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Development of the Hogan Personality Content Single-Items Inventory.

Dustin Wood¹, P D Harms¹, Ryne A Sherman²

¹University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA.

|November 14, 2023

Summary

The Hogan Personality Content Single-Items (HPCS) inventory offers a brief method for assessing Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) and Hogan Developmental Survey (HDS) subscales. This new tool demonstrates reliability and validity for organizational psychology research.

Keywords:

personality assessment retest reliability short scales single-item scales

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Psychological assessment
Organizational psychology
Personality research

Background:

Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) and Hogan Developmental Survey (HDS) are validated for organizational use but underutilized in basic research.
A need exists for efficient personality assessment tools in research settings.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce the Hogan Personality Content Single-Items (HPCS) inventory.
Evaluate the reliability and validity of HPCS for measuring HPI and HDS content subscales.
Explore the utility of single-item scales in personality assessment.

Main Methods:

Developed HPCS with one item per HPI/HDS content subscale (74 items total).
Assessed reliability (retest, self-other, other-other agreement).
Examined convergent validity with full HPI/HDS scales and criterion-related validity.

Main Results:

HPCS demonstrated adequate item-level retest reliability.
Both self-other and other-other agreement were satisfactory.
HPCS showed convergent correlations with corresponding full HPI/HDS scales.
HPCS and full HPI/HDS related similarly to other variables.

Conclusions:

HPCS is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring HPI and HDS content subscales.
HPCS offers a time-efficient alternative to full inventories in certain research contexts.
Findings inform best practices for developing and using single-item scales.