Part I: Construct Development and Scale Creation
Choose a construct you would like to measure.
Create an operational definition of your construct using at least three peer-reviewed journal articles as references.
Select and list five items used to sample the domain.
Select the method of scaling appropriate for the domain.
Justify why you selected the scaling method you did.
Format the items into an instrument with which you would query respondents.
Justify whether this is an interview or self-report instrument.
Part II: Analysis and Justification
Write a 1,500- to 1,750-word analysis of how you developed your instrument.
- Describe how you would norm this instrument and which reliability measures you would use.
- Discuss how many people you would give it to.
- Describe the characteristics that your respondents would have.
- Explain to whom the instrument would be generalized.
- Describe how you would establish validity.
- Describe the methods you used for item selection.
- Discuss whether or not cut-off scores would be established.
- Explain how item selection will be evaluated.Discussion 1 – Week 10Collapse
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What are two broad areas of research that lead us to believe that some behavioral/personality characteristics may be biologically (genetically/hormonally) determined? Give one specific example of research that points to this conclusion.
Discussion 2 – Week 10
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Describe how three different perspectives (of the eight perspectives discussed in the text) explain relations between personality and culture. Which theory accounts for cultural influences on personality best? Worst?
1. Read: Chapters 11 & 13 in Friedman & Schustack’s Personality: Classical theories and modern research;
Read Chapters 33-36 in Friedman & Schustack’s Readings in personality: Classical theories and modern research.