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Scores of 433 students on 218 items from a Dutch version of the Adjective Checklist.
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A 433 by 218 matrix containing integers. dimnames(acl)[[2]]
are adjectives
Each item is an adjective with five ordered answer categories (0 = completely disagree, 1 = disagree, 2 = agree nor disagree, 3 = agree, 4 = completely agree). The respondents were instructed to consider whether an adjective described their personality, and mark the answer category that fits best to this description. The 218 items constitute 22 scales (see table) 77 items of the 218 items that constitute the ten scales were negatively worded. The negatively worded items are indicated by an asterisk in the texttt{dimnames} and their item scores were reversed.
Communality | Items 1-10 | Change | Items111-119 | |
Achievement | Items 11-20 | Succorance | Items121-129 | |
Dominance | Items 21-30 | Abasement | Items131-139 | |
Endurance | Items 31-40 | Deference | Items141-149 | |
Order | Items 41-50 | Personal Adjustment | Items151-159 | |
Intelligence | Items 51-60 | Ideal Self | Items161-169 | |
Nurturance | Items 61-70 | Critical parent | Items171-179 | |
Affiliation | Items 71-80 | Nurturant parent | Items181-189 | |
Exhibition | Items 81-90 | Adult | Items191-199 | |
Autonomy | Items 91-100 | Free Child | Items200-209 | |
Aggression | Items 101-110 | Adapted Child | Items210-218 |
Data were kindly made available by H. C. M. Vorst from the University of Amsterdam. The original Adjective Checklist was developed by Gough and Heilbrun (1980).
Gough, H. G. and Heilbrun,A. B. (1980) The Adjective Check List, Manual 1980 Edition. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
Van der Ark, L. A. (2007) Mokken scale analysis in R. Journal of Statistical Software. http://www.jstatsoft.org
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