The conceptual congruence inventory (CCI): An experimental tool for the investigation and measurement of 22 common affective concepts
✍ Scribed by Joseph C. Andorfer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 355 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Background of the C C P . The Role-Construct Repertory Grid ('), Payne Object Classification Test ( 9 , 12) and the Object Sorting Task@) have been used successfully to evaluate the nature of a person's concepts. The Repertory Grid determines the concepts that are prepotent in a person's cognitive life and the ways that they are interrelated. The Object Sorting Task and Object Classification Test are used to determine whether a person successfully can group related items into recognizable classes without making any class, or concept, broader or narrower than the culture deems appropriate and without positing a deviant class.
The CCI was developed because the need for a standard, convenient and economical instrument that would reveal the over-and underinclusiveness of a person's affective concepts became apparent to the author during a research with families and dyads. These criteria are not met by the other similarly conceived tests. The Object Sorting Task and the Object Classification Test, while standardized to admit inter4 comparison, do not deal with affective concepts. The Repertory Grid, which deals with concepts of an affective-interpersonal nature, is not readily standardized because the S selects the "constructs" and because even in Landfield's(*) version, the roles, which are analogous for all Ss, must describe different people for different Ss.
The Scales. The CCI consists of 22 scales that correspond to 22 commonly used affective concepts that were chosen by 30 college students from a list of 100 as the highest in interpersonal utility. Eleven of these are termed positive: Loving (LO), Kind (KD), Gentle (GE), Friendly (FR), Sincere (SI), Sympathetic (SY), Insightful (IN), Secure (SE), Trusting (TG), Trustworthy (TY), and Content (Co). The other 11 are their negative complements: Hateful (HA), Unkind (uKD), Cruel (CR),