A Review of Sentence Completion Methods In Personality Assessment

Abstract

Theoretical and empirical support for a variety of sentence completion tests are examined, Reasons for and consequences of, variations in construction, administration, scoring and interpretation are considered. Much of the variation is apparently gratuitous and has retarded the development of a systematic body of information relevant to any one test. Generally, the S-C has been found to be a valuable clinical and research instrument that compares favorably in economy and power with other available psychometric devices.

Rotter's sætningsfuldendelsestest i en komparativ undersøgelse af voldsofre

“…Goldberg (1965) nrevner 6 typer af forme lie analyser, som hovedsageligt er udf0rt sidst i 40'erne. Eno & Woehlke (1984) er et eksempel pa en analyse af ISB for grammatiske fejl, hvilket selvf0lgelig kan have diagnostisk vrerdi i f.eks.…”

“…Agesen et al (1984) fremhrever, at de har fundet testen srerdeles vrerdifuld til belysning af psykiske konflikter af bevidst og ubevidst natur, kognitiv stil, herunder regressive trrek i trenkningen og psykodynamisk forsvar. Goldberg (1965) har ikke sa meget til overs for den kliniske analyse, som han foragteligt kalder for impressionistiske metoder. En del "reldre" forfattere (Sechrest & Hemphill, 1954;Lewinsohn & Nichols, 1964;Rulla & Maddi, 1972) anvender vurderingsskalaer, hvor den samlede besvarelse udsrettes for en rrekke fastlagte specifikke vurderinger af funktionsmressige forhold eller personlighedstrrek.…”

“…Den bedste introduktion til testen findes hos Goldberg (1965), som ogsa er trykt i Murstein (1965). En artikel, der bygger pa Goldberg, er Agesen et al (1984).…”

The Relationship Between Self-Actualization and Adjustment Among American Catholic Priests

“…In a comprehensive review of the sentence completion method, Goldberg (1965) stated that this technique is useful in assessing adjustment, and that it compares well with other standard instruments. Goldberg (1968) A stratified sampling procedure was used in which the "strata" were size categories of dioceses and religious orders.…”

The Study of Adolescent Development Using a Sentence‐completion Method

“…However, it was felt that further exploration of these dimensions was necessary, preferably with a different technique, in order that some light might be shed on the results from a different angle. For this reason the sentencecompletion method was chosen as an additional means of studying the development of interpersonal relationships.Much work has been done on the use of the sentence-completion method as a diagnostic instrument (for review see Goldberg, 1965), but so f a r little attention has been paid to it as a means of studying child development. Two exceptions to this have been the papers of Harriss and Tseng (1 957) and Lessing, Pribyl and Patek (1966), though both papers have limited their scope by concentrating on positive and negative attitudes to parents and peers, the latter paper making a comparison between normal and disturbed children.…”