Reliability and Validity of Scores on the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ)

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the reliability and the construct validity of scores on the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ), a measure of Jungian types developed by the last author. Classical psychometric analyses of data from 641 participants were supportive of a view that the instrument has reasonable properties; these analyses included item and alpha analyses and both oblique and orthogonal exploratory factor analyses. The divergent validity of PPSDQ scale scores was also investigated.

Alternative Ways of Measuring Counselees' Jungian Psychological‐Type Preferences

“…Regarding the second research question, involving the internal consistency of PPSDQ scores, alpha coefficients for the four scales in the present study ranged from .88 to .92, as reported in Table 2. These coefficients were slightly better than, but generally comparable to, related PPSDQ results reported by Kier et al (1998) for a similar sample of college students from two other universities. These coefficients were higher than those reported for a sample of Hispanic high school seniors (Mittag, 1999).…”

“…Table 2 presents the possible and the actual score ranges on the four PPSDQ scales and also shows Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the four scales in the present study. For comparative purposes, Table 2 also presents related results from the Kier et al (1998) study involving 641 students from two universities other than the university involved in the present study and from the Mittag (1999) study involving 328 Hispanic high school students.…”

“…The PPSDQ items were revised and refined in a series of studies using various statistical analyses and samples (cf. Arnau, Thompson, & Rosen, 1999;Kier, Melancon, & Thompson, 1998;Mittag, 1999;Thompson & Melancon, 1996;Thompson & Stone, 1994).…”

Reliability and validity of scores from the Singer‐Loomis Type Deployment Inventory

“…In that study, the internal consistency reliability of data from the SL-TDI ranged from .64 to .90 (Arnau et al 1999) which are also considered acceptable to excellent. In addition, evidence for the validity of SL-TDI scores came from moderate bivariate and multivariate correlations with another alternative measure of Jungian personality, the PPSDQ (Thompson 1996; see also Kier, Melancon, & Thompson 1998;Thompson & Arnau 1998;Thompson & Melancon 1995).…”

Psychological type and sex differences among church leaders in the United Kingdom

“…Like many other operationalisations of Jungian psychological type theory (see for example, Keirsey and Bates, 1978;Ware, Yokomoto, & Morris, 1985;Mitchell, 1991;Budd, 1997;Kier, Melancon, & Thompson, 1998), the FPTS makes use of a fourth index, attitudes towards the outer world, pioneered by Myers and Briggs. The two attitudes towards the outer world are determined by which of the two sets of functions (that is, Perceiving S/N, or Judging T/F), is preferred in dealings with the outer world.…”