Psychometric properties of the gifted students’ personal values questionnaire

- Корольов, Д.К. (orcid.org/0000-0002-9685-5286) (2020) Psychometric properties of the gifted students’ personal values questionnaire Український психологічний журнал, 1 (13). pp. 105-121. ISSN 2520-6265

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Abstract

The purpose of presented research is the finalization of the gifted students’ personal values questionnaire development. This work carried out in four stages: 1) approbation of the preliminary version of the questionnaire, 2) the response scale elaboration with acceptable discrimination, 3) development of internal consistent, factor and content valid scales, designing test norms, 4) assessing the instrument retest reliability and the criterion validity. Three hundred eighty-six university students answered the questionnaire at all stages of the study. Based on factor and content analysis six measuring scales were constructed: productive creative activity values, orientation on intensive emotional experience, orientation on social recognition, value uncertainty, orientation on profession, value of comfortable living. The data confirm the questionnaire final version compliance with other standard psychometric requirements: no answer to the items was chosen more often than 55%, the distribution of raw scale scores is normal, Cronbach’s Alpha closes to 0.70, corrected item-total correlation is above 0.20, retest reliability coefficient is not below 0.70.The instrument is recommended for individual assessment and research purpose in students’ population. Further research prospects are related to questionnaire validity determination in relation to other external criteria of giftedness and to the accumulation and reflection of experience in using the tool.

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