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Forced-choice (FC) and true-false (TF) guilt scales which controlled for social desirability were developed from a sentence-completion measure of guilt for 3 subcategories of guilt: Sex Guilt (SG), Hostile Guilt (HG), and Morality-Conscience Guilt (MCG). The 3 methods of measuring the 3 aspects of guilt were examined in a multitrait-multimethod matrix based on 95 male Ss. The matrix provided promising evidence of convergent and discriminant validity of the 3 guilt subcategories as measured by the forced-choice and true-false methods. Further evidence of discriminant validity was provided by including anxiety and social desirability scores as measured by 2 methods in the matrix.

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Forced-choice and true-false guilt inventories for females were developed from a sentence-completion measure of guilt for 3 subcategories of guilt: Sex-Guilt, Hostility-Guilt, and Morality-Conscience. A multitrait-multimethod matrix and a factor analysis based on the responses of 62 females to the 3 measures of 3 aspects of guilt provided evidence for convergent and discriminant validity. The measures of guilt are not significantly correlated with 2 measures of social desirability and are factorially dissimilar from responses given under instructions to make a "favorable impression." The inventories are viewed as measuring the personality disposition of guilt rather than the feeling state of guilt.