Stability and Internal Consistency of a Measure of Self-Actualization
- 1 October 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 21 (2) , 422-424
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1967.21.2.422
Abstract
The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI), a recently developed measure of self-actualizing tendencies, was administered on 2 occasions to 48 college students to determine the stability, independence, and utility of 10 subscales. Stability coefficients and intercorrelations indicated that 3 of the 12 scales, Inner Direction, Time Competence, and Self-actualization Value, accounted for almost all the variance. Since many of the intercorrelations approximated the scales' reliabilities, it was concluded that performance on the POI could be more accurately and parsimoniously expressed in terms of fewer dimensions.Keywords
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