TY - JOUR
AU - Mach, Brigitte K.
AB - The Self Concept: Test Equivalence and Perceived Validity* STEPHEN P. SPITZER, JOHN R. STRATTON, JACK D. FITZGERALD, and BRIGITTE K. MACH, University of Iowa SOCIAL psychological theorists have persistently emphasized the fact that persons come to hold attitudes not only toward others but also toward themselves. As a result, the self-concept as a construct has achieved considerable prominence in current research. With the popularity of the self as an object for study there has been a corre- sponding interest in the development and application of instruments designed specifically to tap some aspect of self-evaluation. Concur- rent with the accumulation of research on the self, a number of problems have become salient. Among the more important of these are the equivalence of measures of self-evaluation and the validity of such instruments. A perusal of Wylie’s The Self Concept discloses the existence of no fewer than 100 instruments, only a small minority of which have seen repeated use.l It seems that every student of the self-concept, either because of dissatisfaction with existing instruments or the choice of research problems, has contributed at least one additional device. Consequently, the integration and interpretation of results yielded by this plethora of instruments is by 
TI - The Self Concept: Test Equivalence and Perceived Validity
JF - The Sociological Quarterly
DO - 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1966.tb01693.x
DA - 1966-06-01
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SP - 265
EP - 280
VL - 7
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -