California Adult Q-Set.
CAQ
- What it measures
- Comprehensive personality description via a forced-choice Q-sort of 100 personality-descriptive statements; yields whole-person profiles and prototypes (e.g. ego-resiliency, ego-control)
- Length and format
- 100 Q-sort items (forced 9-category distribution). Q-sort (rank statements from most to least characteristic) (observational/coding system)
- Language versions
- Adapted internationally - German, Dutch, Italian, Chinese and others (approx 10+ langs); child form (CCQ) also translated
- 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
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Block J. The Q-Sort Method in Personality Assessment and Psychiatric Research. Consulting Psychologists Press; 1978.
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