Titre du document / Document title
Role of behaviorally descriptive adjectives in description of personality
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
MERENDA P. F. ;
FAVA J. L. ;
Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)
Univ. Rhode Island, Kingston RI, ETATS-UNIS
Résumé / Abstract
Behaviorally descriptive adjectives and personality trait terms have been analyzed periodically by many psychological researchers and practitioners during the last half of this century. This analysis of personality-descriptive adjectives and terms has led to the development of several widely used adjective checklists for personality assessment and the postulation and the construct validation of several personality models. Foremost among the adjective checklists have been the 1948 Activity Vector Analysis (AVA), the 1950 Adjective Check List (ACL), and the more recent Personality Adjective Check List (PACL) in 1987. The first descriptions and reports of their developmental and validation research appeared in the professional refereed litterature, respectively by CLarke in 1956, Gough in 1960, and Strack in 1987. The ACL contains 300 adjectives, various forms of the AVA contain 81 to 87 adjectives, and the PACL contains 153 adjectives. The dimensionality of personality models and the number of scales interpreted in the protocols from these instruments have either remained stable as the case of AVA (4 dimensions, 6 scales) or have been quite variable over time. For example, the ACL was originally 5-dimensional with 6 scales being interpreted. Currently, the ACL yields 37 interpretable scales, and the PACL perhaps a 5-factor structure
Revue / Journal Title
Psychological reports
ISSN
0033-2941
Source / Source
1994, vol. 74, n
o1, pp. 259-274 (1 p.3/4)
Langue / Language
Anglais
Editeur / Publisher
Psychological Reports, Missoula, MT, ETATS-UNIS
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Localisation / Location
INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 8745, 35400004916608.0490
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