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ERIC Number: EJ125077
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1975
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Improving the Validity of Affective Self-Report Measures through Constructing Personality Scales Unconfounded with Social Desirability: A Study of the Personality Research Form
Abbott, Robert D.
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 35, 2, 371-7, Sum 75
Presents a series of analyses of Jackson's Personality Research Form items and scales to determine the apparent effects of the use of the differential validity index on more traditional item psychometric indices which have been used to reduce the confounding of trait scales and social desirability. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Factor Analysis, Item Analysis, Matrices, Personality Measures, Self Evaluation, Social Influences, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Identifiers: Personality Research Form; Social Desirability