Chapter 1 - Criteria for Selection and Evaluation of Scales and Measures

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The origins of this volume go back over 50 years to a collection of social attitude measures compiled by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan (see Robinson & Shaver, 1969). The original work was substantially updated and configured as an edited volume by Robinson, Shaver and Wrightsman in 1991. Its scope was increased to cover personality as well as attitude measures. The current editors share the goals of previous editors in seeking to provide systematic reviews of high quality instruments. Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes was enormously successful in providing a concise compendium of a broad range of scales and measures that were extremely useful for social-personality research and assessment. However, it is now more than two decades since this volume was published, so it is time to produce a completely revised and updated resource for researchers and practitioners alike. In addition, the landscape of assessment in personality and social psychology is very different from that in 1991, and we briefly introduce this volume with an overview of some of the key developments that have impacted assessment methods since that time. The original title has been broadened to encompass, Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs, thereby allowing inclusion of a considerably wider range of key topics, in a major expansion from 12 chapters in the 1991 version, to no fewer than 26 substantive chapters in the present volume. An examination of the most often cited areas of research and professional need, and more frequently used measures in the current social-personality literature further guided our selection of the chapters covered in this book.

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