title: Additional validity evidence for the Harder Personal Feelings Questionnaire-2 (PFQ2): a measure of shame and guilt proneness.
abstract: The present study sought to provide additional evidence for the construct validity of the Harder (Harder & Zalma, 1990) Personal Feelings Questionnaire-2 (PFQ2), a recently revised measure of shame and guilt proneness. Seventy university students, 35 male and 35 female, completed the PFQ2 and scales that assess self-derogation, instability of self-concept, shyness, social anxiety, public self-consciousness, private self-consciousness, and locus of control. The correlation results were generally consistent with validity predictions. As in previous studies, however, the discriminant validity of the shame and guilt scales was supported, but not strongly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Harder
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rockart
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cutler
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept; D012752:Shame; D012931:Social Environment