Development of a structured disguised personality test

Abstract

"To develop a disguised but objective personality inventory, a factor analysis was performed on scores based on 400 examinees' tendencies to accept or reject 13 lists of proverbs constructed to cover 13 areas. The three test factors which emerged… were: Conventional Mores, Hostility, and Fear of Failure. Using 200 new examinees, scales were constructed by item analysis to measure each. In subsequent samples, the three scales were found to have corrected split-half reliabilities ranging from .45 to .83 and intercorrelations ranging from - .12 to .54. The reliabilities and intercorrelations among the scales were higher when the groups were more heterogeneous in background. The reliabilities and intercorrelations among the scales suggest that three separate behavioral tendencies are being assessed." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)