The impact of modified instructions on ego-level scores: A psychometric hazard or indication of optimal ego level?

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 229-249

  Drewes, Martine J ^b   Westenberg, P Michiel ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0035007643     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327752JPA7602_07     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Blumentritt, T., Novy, D. M., Gaa, J. P., & Liberman, D. (1996). Effects of maximum performance instructions on the Sentence Completion Test of Ego Development. Journal of Personality Assessment, 67, 79-89.
2. Browning, D. L., & Quinlan, D. M. (1985). Ego development and intelligence in a psychiatric population: Wechsler subtest scores. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49, 260-263.
3. Cohn, L. D. (1991). Sex differences in the course of personality development: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 109, 252-266.
4. Cohn, L. D. (1998). Age trends in personality development: A quantitative review. In P. M. Westenberg. A. Blasi, & L. D. Cohn (Eds.), Personality development: Theoretical, empirical, and clinical investigations of Loevinger's conception of ego development (pp. 133-144). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
5. Cronbach, L. J. (1970). Essentials of psychological testing (3rd ed.). New York: Harper & Row.
6. Hauser, S. T. (1976). Loevinger's model and measure of ego development: A critical review. Psychological Bulletin, 83, 928-995.
7. Hy, L. X. (1998). Managing SCT data. In J. Loevinger (Ed.), Technical foundations for measuring ego development (pp. 41-48). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
8. Hy, L. X., & Loevinger, J. (1996). Measuring ego development (Rev. ed.). Mahwah. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
9. Jackson, D. N. (1993). Personality development and nonlinear measurement models. Psychological Inquiry, 4, 30-33.
10. Jurich, J., & Holt, R. R. (1987). Effects of modified instructions on the Washington University Sentence Completion Test of Ego Development. Journal of Personality Assessment, 51, 186-193.
11. Lamborn, S. D., Fischer, K. W., & Pipp, S. (1994). Constructive criticism and social lies: A developmental sequence for understanding honesty and kindness in social interactions. Developmental Psychology, 30, 495-508.
12. Loevinger, J. (1976). Ego development: Conceptions and theories. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
13. Loevinger, J. (1979). Construct validity of the sentence completion test for ego development. Psychological Measurement, 3, 291-311.
14. Loevinger, J. (1985). Revision of the sentence completion test for ego development. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 420-427.
15. Loevinger, J. (1997). Stages of personality development. In R. Hogan, J. Johnson, & S. Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology (pp. 199-208). New York: Academic.
16. Loevinger, J. (1998a). Reliability and validity of the SCT. In J. Loevinger (Ed.), Technical foundations for measuring ego development (pp. 29-40). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
17. Loevinger, J. (Ed.). (1998b). Technical foundations for measuring ego development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
18. Loevinger, J., Carlson, V., Westenberg, P. M., & Lasker, H. (1998). Ego development as a stage-type theory and a process. In J. Loevinger (Ed.), Technical foundations for measuring ego development (pp. 49-56). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
19. Loevinger, J., Hy, L. X., & Bobbitt, K. (1998). Revision of the scoring manual. In J. Loevinger (Ed.), Technical foundations for measuring ego development (pp. 19-24). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
20. Maslow, A. (1954). Motivation and personality. New York: Harper.
21. Newman, D. L., Tellegen, A., & Bouchard, T. J., Jr. (1998). Individual differences in adult ego development: Sources of influence in twins reared apart. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 985-995.
22. Novy, D. M., & Francis, D. J. (1992). Psychometric properties of the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 52, 1029-1039.
23. Redmore, C. ( 1976). Susceptibility to faking of a Sentence Completion Test of Ego Development. Journal of Personality Assessment, 40, 607-616.
24. Redmore, C., & Waldman, K. (1975). Reliability of a sentence completion measure of ego development. Journal of Personality Assessment, 39, 236-243.
25. Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
26. Weiss, D. S., Zilberg, N. J., & Genevro, J. L. (1989). Psychometric properties of Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test in an adult psychiatric outpatient sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 53, 478-486.
27. Westenberg, P. M., Blasi, A., & Cohn, L. D. (Eds.). (1998). Personality development: Theoretical, empirical, and clinical investigations of Loevinger's conception of ego development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
28. Westenberg, P. M., & Block, J. (1993). Ego development and individual differences in personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 792-800.
29. Westenberg, P. M., & Gjerde, P. F. (1999). Ego development during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood: A nine-year longitudinal study. Journal of Research in Personality, 33, 233-252.
30. Westenberg, P. M., Jonckheer, J., Treffers, P. D. A., & Drewes, M. J. (1998). Ego development in children and adolescents: Another side of the impulsive, self-protective, and conformist ego levels. In P. M. Westenberg, A. Blasi, & L. D. Cohn (Eds.), Personality development: Theoretical, empirical, and clinical investigations of Loevinger's conception of ego development (pp. 89-112). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
31. Westenberg, P. M., Siebelink, B. M., Warmenhoven, N. J. C., & Treffers, P. D. A. (1999). Separation anxiety and overanxious disorders: Relations to age and level of psychosocial maturity. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38, 1-8.
32. Westenberg. P. M., Treffers, P. D. A., & Drewes, M. J. (1998). A new version of the WUSCT: The Sentence Completion Test for Children and Youths (SCT-Y). In J. Loevinger (Ed.), Technical foundations for measuring ego development. The Washington University Sentence Completion Test (pp. 81-90). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
33. Westenberg, P. M., van Strien, S. D., & Drewes, M. J. (2001). Revised description and measurement of ego development in early adolescence. Manuscript submitted for publication.