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A New Technique for Personality Scale Construction. Preliminary Findings.
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Schaffner, Paul E.; Darlington, Richard B. – 1977
Most methods of personality scale construction have clear statistical disadvantages. A hybrid method (Darlington and Bishop, 1966) was found to increase scale validity more than any other method, with large item pools. A simple modification of the Darlington-Bishop method (algebraically and conceptually similar to ridge regression, but…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Diagnostic Tests, Measurement Instruments, Personality Measures