Sentence Completion Test

Lah, Michael I.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-1185-4_7

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“…The method is very simple: respondents provide continuations to incomplete sentences using their own words. Its popularity is attributable to its sensitivity to the unique responses generated by each individual, and in the past these have been purported to reveal unexpected truths about personality and/or psychopathology (Lah, 1989; Lubin, Larsen, & Matarazzo, 1984). Such tests, however, have been less prominent in contemporary psychological assessment, the main reason being the difficulty obtaining adequate reliability and validity for the purported claims.…”

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Sentence completion test for depression (SCD): An idiographic measure of depressive thinking

Barton

Morley

Bloxham

et al. 2005

British J Clinic Psychol

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The SCD demonstrates good construct validity, internal consistency, inter-rater reliability, sensitivity, and specificity. It offers an idiographic assessment of depression that is complementary to questionnaire measures, particularly by generating hypotheses about target problems and dysfunctional beliefs within a cognitive-behavioural case-formulation. This is achieved without loss to reliability and validity at the nomothetic level.

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Section: Sentence Completion Methodsmentioning

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Sentence completion test for depression (SCD): An idiographic measure of depressive thinking

Barton

Morley

Bloxham

et al. 2005

British J Clinic Psychol

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“…The exercise used to measure future-time reference (FTR) was a sentence-completion task, which has a long tradition in the social sciences (Holaday et al, 2000;Lah, 2001). In these tasks, respondents complete sentences that begin with initial words that are provided, known as the 'stem.'…”

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Endogenous Language Use and Patience

Kiss¹,

Keller²

2023

Preprint

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“…Sentence-completion tests have been very popular techniques of personality assessment in the clinic (Watkins, 1991). The Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB; Rotter, Lah, & Rafferty, 1992) seems to be the most commonly administered (Holoday, Smith, & Sherry, 2000) and most researched (Lah, 1989) among them. The manual offers a scoring system to compute from its 40 stems an Overall Adjustment Score (OAS), which purports to tap mood, resilience, productivity, and socialization.…”

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Construct and Incremental Validity of the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank in Adult Psychiatric Outpatients

McCloskey

2014

Psychol Rep

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The expression of positive vs negative attitudes in response to the 40 stems of the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB) can be scored and summed to an Overall Adjustment Score (OAS). By extending the validation of the OAS to adult psychiatric outpatients, this study demonstrates for the first time the incremental validity of a personality test over a simple self-rating. The RISB and six tests of adjustment were administered to 41 recent admissions to psychotherapy in two rural clinics. The tests of adjustment were selected to cover the two domains of symptoms vs function and the three methods of interview schedule vs objective inventory vs therapist ratings. Their scores were combined into an adjustment composite. The OAS related strongly to the composite in univariate regression, and moderately in hierarchical regression after covarying demographics, intelligence, social desirability, and self-ratings of adjustment. Construct validity was good, and incremental validity at least fair.

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Sentence Completion Test

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Sentence completion test for depression (SCD): An idiographic measure of depressive thinking

Sentence completion test for depression (SCD): An idiographic measure of depressive thinking

Endogenous Language Use and Patience

Construct and Incremental Validity of the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank in Adult Psychiatric Outpatients

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