title: Measuring the Jungian personality types of Hispanic high school students.
abstract: Measures of normal variations in personality, called psychological type, are frequently used in education (e.g., to identify learning styles) and counseling (e.g., in career counseling). However, the most frequently-used measure of types, developed by Myers and Briggs, has been criticized on various psychometric grounds. The present study investigated the psychometric properties of an alternative measure, the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ), which employs normative rather than ipsative (forced-choice) items. Because previous studies of the measure have primarily used older and highly literate participants, the present study was conducted with 328 Hispanic high school students to determine whether the sound psychometric quality of PPSDQ scores was compromised by vocabulary or language issues. The results of reliability and factor analyses were generally favorable as regards PPSDQ score integrity.
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX 78249-0664, USA. kmittag@lonestar.utsa.edu
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Mittag
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012659:Semantic Differential; D012928:Social Desirability; D014481:United States