A validation and short form of the Basic Character Inventory

Abstract

The Basic Character Inventory (BCI) contains 136 items, 17 lower-order personality factors and three higher-order personality factors derived from psychoanalytic theory: Oral, Obsessive Compulsion, and Hysteria. Previous research that investigated the BCI's psychometric properties examined small, special populations and did not use modern statistical methods to validate the BCI. The present study validates the BCI via confirmatory factor analyses using a large sample of 6,285 Norwegian nursing and teaching students. Reliability, convergent validity, and divergent validity of the BCI were also assessed. Results indicated general support for the original BCI factor structure in a reduced form of the BCI that possesses strong reliability and validity, and is suitable for use in time-limited measurement settings.

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“…The instrument was modified by Torgersen in 1980 and validated in Norwegian populations (Lazare et al, 1966;Torgersen, 1980a). This instrument was chosen has given meaningful results in earlier clinical and non-clinical studies (Torgersen, 1980b;Torgersen, 1980a;Alnaes & Torgersen, 1990;Ravndal & Vaglum, 1991;Kaldestad, 1994;Perry et al, 2002;Neilands et al, 2008). It has also been used in previous studies on Norwegian medical students and physicians (Aasland et al, 1997;Tyssen et al, 2000;Tyssen et al, 2001b;Tyssen et al, 2005).…”