Relationship between selected personality variables: measured by the patterns of social adaptation scale and the California psychological inventory

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Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Madsen, Nancy Lee
Title Relationship between selected personality variables: measured by the patterns of social adaptation scale and the California psychological inventory
Date 1976-06
Description The problem of this investigation was to examine the validity of the Patterns of Social Adaptation Scale (PSA) as a measure of assertion. The instrument was administered concurrently with the California Personality Inventory (CPI) to 99 undergraduate nursing students, all of whom were women. Significant correlations were obtained between assertiveness as measured by the PSA, and eight personality dimensions measured by the CPI (dominance, capacity for status, sociability, self acceptance, tolerance, social presence, achievement via conformance and psychological mindedness). Multiple regression analysis suggested that assertiveness may be partially explained by these eight personality variables (R[2] = .2409). The CPI variable which contributed the greatest weight to the prediction was psychological mindedness (B-.249). These findings correspond with descriptive definitions of assertion as reported in the literature. The results of this investigation were consistent with the general hypothesis that the PSA has some validity as a measure of assertion.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject California Psychological Inventory; Patterns of Social Adapation Scale
Subject MESH Psychological Tests; Behavior
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Relationship between selected personality variables: measured by the Patterns of Social Adaptation Scale and the California Psychological Inventory." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Relationship between selected personality variables: measured by the Patterns of Social Adaptation Scale and the California Psychological Inventory." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. BF21.5 1976 .M33.
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Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dn46rn
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