Personality Research Form

The Personality Research Form is designed to measure and assess personality characteristics in children grade 7 - 16, college students and adults. The PRF is a timed test that takes 30 - 45 minutes to complete.

Development of the PRF was guided by the belief that more rigorous and valid assessment of personality characteristics could be achieved through the application of modern principles of personality and test theory. The goals established for the Personality Assessment Inventory were to develop an item pool and a set of personality scales relevant to normal human functioning in a wide variety of situations.

The PRF is recommended for use in personality research and for measuring normal personality traits in settings such as schools, colleges, clinics, guidance centers, business, and industry.

The PRF 15 Scores

• achievement
• affiliation
• aggression
• autonomy
• dominance
• endurance
• exhibition
• harm avoidance
• impulsivity
• nurturance
• order
• play
• social recognition
• understanding
• infrequency

Reliability: The odd-even reliabilities adjusted using the Spearman-Brown correction were calculated from the responses of 192 subjects. The reliability estimates for the personality scales ranged from 0.48 to 0.90, with a median reliability of about 0.78. The reliabilities of the Desirability validity Scale ranged from 0.59 to 0.66, and those of the Infrequency validity Scale ranged from 0.33 to 0.57. Test-retest reliability estimates ranged from 0.57 to 0.85 with a median of 0.77.

Validity: The PRF manual contains nine tables reporting correlations between scales on various forms of the PRF and scales on other tests. Reported are the relationships between the PRF-AA and the CPI and Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB), the PRF-A and the Allport Vernon Lindzey Study of Values (SOV), and the PRF-E and the JPI, Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS), Bentler Psychological Inventory (BPI), Bentler Interactive Psychological Inventory (BIPI), and Cattell's High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ). In general, the PRF scales have higher correlations with scales from the other instruments measuring the same or a similar construct (e.g., dominance-leadership) than with scales measuring different or antithetical constructs.

Norms: The normative sample consisted of 1,029 male and 1,002 female college students selected to represent a stratified random sample by regions of the United States.

Population: Grades 7-16 and adults, college.

Score: 15 scores.

Time:30 - 45 minutes.

Author: Douglas N. Jackson.

Publisher: Research Psychologists Press, Inc.