Perception of Self as Related to Perception of the “Ideal Personality”

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The prediction that persons assumed to have normal orientations will perceive their own personalities as similar to the “ideal personality” was tested with an Adjective Q Sort, on which Ss Q sorted 55 adjectives (a) to describe the self, and/or (b) to describe the ideal personality. The prediction was confirmed, as evidenced by the findings (a) that median rs, for individual Ss, between the two sets of Q-sort scores, were .67 to .75, for 4 groups who performed both Q sorts, and (b) that, when group medians were based on first Q sorts by the Ss involved, median self-descriptive Q-sort scores were highly correlated ( r = .85 to .91) with median ideal-personality Q-sort scores. Across-group rs between variables were only slightly lower than across-group rs within a given variable.

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