title: Measuring dispositional humility: a first approximation.
abstract: Humility is a psychological construct that has not received much empirical attention until recently. This new emphasis on positive psychology and humility has been both conceptual and empirical. The present study had two objectives: to review the literature briefly to verify the importance of humility and its positive perception by others, and to begin to develop a preliminary measure of humility. Results indicated that humility is held in high regard by others. Two factors emerged from exploratory factor analysis that appear to converge on measuring humility, with acceptable convergent and divergent validity and internal consistency reliability. These results are discussed in terms of the expected relationships among humility and other constructs (e.g., social desirability, narcissism, self-esteem).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, MS 1715, Boise, ID 83725-1715, USA. elandru@boisestate.edu
authors.forename: R Eric
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Landrum
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002605:Character; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D012945:Social Values; D055815:Young Adult