Note on the validity and reliability of the total scores yielded by the Pressey X-O Test of the Emotions

Abstract

303 students in the San Diego State Teachers College served as subjects of the study. 150 of them also gave self ratings. Neither the total emotional affectivity scores nor the total emotional idiosyncrasy scores were highly reliable. The self ratings for total emotional affectivity and for total emotional idiosyncrasy were equally unreliable. Few of the validity coefficients indicated even a marked degree of relationship, indicating that the several series of scores, of self ratings, and of ratings by others did not measure the same thing or things in the same amount. Apparently, then, the usefulness of the test lies in the analysis which it yields, since the total scores yield results of little significance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)