Critical note on the Pressey Interest-Attitudes Test

Abstract

Since some of the sub-tests of the Pressey interest-attitude test contain more than twice as many immature as mature items, a person may obtain a low maturity score merely because he checks all items over-extensively. High correlations between the number of checks on mature and immature items indicate that an individual's score may be more a function of his checking threshold than of his maturity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)