This investigation was concerned with the widely spread practice to extract subscales from extensive psychodiagnostic inventories and to present their items in questionnaires as homogeneous item-blocks. By way of examining the effects of the mode of item-...

Two studies have been conducted respectively to examine the validity of the Italian version of the Individuation scale (), and to investigate individuation within the frame of the Five Factor Model of personality (FFM). The ...

The psycholexical approach to personality, which has resulted in a widely accepted framework of personality trait description, is used for the development of the construction of a personality questionnaire. The principles and theoretical notions leading ...

This article presents the results of a comparison between two questionnaires about regulation activities related to studying in higher education. The questionnaire developed within a different educational setting appears to be less discriminative and ...

We investigated whether the speed of responding to personality questionnaires affects the psychometric quality of the resulting questionnaire scores. Austrian adolescents (n = 106) completed Eysenck's Personality Inventory in a computerized version, which ...

The results are presented for the validation of a videotape as an analogous situation for a flight. The video includes the most significant elements of a flight by air: confirmation of the flight, packing, going to the airport, checking-in, going through ...

Statements of ethics and related guidelines have been developed in Australia over the period since 1968, covering psychological testing in general, and practices of individual, group, ‘blind' and computerized testing in particular. Guidelines on the ...

Tests and assessments in the USA have taken on additional burdens as their uses have been greatly expanded by educators, employers, and policy makers. Increased demands are often placed on the same assessment, by different constituencies, to serve varied ...