How Good is the Modern Questionnaire? General Principles for Evaluation.

Cattell, Raymond B.

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How Good is the Modern Questionnaire? General Principles for Evaluation

Cattell, Raymond B.

Journal of Personality Assessment, 38, 2, 115-129, Apr 74

Questionnaires are vulnerable to joking and suffer from lack of agreement regarding the unitary traits through which scales are validated. Eight basic requirements for construction of factor-true scales are established and it is shown that one or more of the requirements is missing for 80 percent of recently published questionnaires. (Author)

Descriptors: Factor Structure, Personality Assessment, Questionnaires, Response Style (Tests), Standards, Statistical Analysis, Test Construction, Test Reviews, Test Validity

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