Adjective Check List.
ACL
- What it measures
- Broadband personality description via 300 trait adjectives - 37 scales incl. the 15 Murray needs, topical scales, transactional-analysis ego states, and the Big Five (via later scoring)
- Length and format
- 300 adjectives. checklist (endorse each adjective as self-descriptive or not) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into Spanish, Italian, German, French, Japanese and many others (approx 20+ langs)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Gough HG, Heilbrun AB. The Adjective Check List Manual. Consulting Psychologists Press; 1983.
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