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Personality: broadband models

Interpersonal Adjective Scales.

IAS

What it measures
Interpersonal traits arranged on the interpersonal circumplex - eight octants around Dominance (agency) and Nurturance (communion)
Length and format
64 (IAS-R/IAS); original IAS 128. 8-pt accuracy rating of trait adjectives (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Adapted into Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese and others (approx 10+ 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
Wiggins JS. Interpersonal Adjective Scales: Professional Manual. Psychological Assessment Resources; 1995.

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