Hi, Peter -
I'm not sure whether you are asking for scholarly sources on unvalidated
measures of personality, or actual articles with unvalidated measures of
personality. If the former, I don't have any references to provide, but I may
be able to help with the latter, as I have done a critical-thinking project on
evaluating "popular press" personality tests in my personality theories
course.
If you are having trouble locating popular-press articles with personality
tests, I suspect that the problem you are having is not with the search terms
you are using but WHERE you are searching. I believe that PsycINFO searches
scholarly sources and not general interest magazines. I asked one of our
reference librarians to identify the database that would search popular press
(and not scholarly) periodicals, and I found some really great ones in such
classic US magazine sources as Cosmopolitan, Cosmo Girl, Mademoiselle, Men's
Health, Teen Magazine, Autoweek, and Redbook.
Good luck -
Retta
Peter Schmolck wrote:
> Hi,
> in my current research methods class one of the student groups is going
> to investigate the validity of a typical personality "test" from a
> popular magazine. I wonder if any of you had the same idea already?
>
> Also, I'm desperately searching for some literature on that genre. I
> could not locate _any_ reference yet. For instance, PsycINFO apparently
> does not provide a thesaurus descriptor like "pseudo-test" or
> "psycho-test". Hasn't got "horoscopes" neither, but at least "astrology"
> as related to "superstitions". Given the high impact of magazine "tests"
> and those lots of similar self-assessment tests on the internet on the
> general public's understanding of psychology and psychologists, isn't
> that remarkable? But, in part at least, my problems in locating relevant
> references with google and PsycINFO, might be due to a lack of
> foreign-language proficiency. Could you, native-English speakers, please
> help me with some useful search terms (and search phrases) that are
> often used in (colloquial) English for "magazine tests?"
>
> BTW, already in its early stages, this student project provides a good
> lesson in importance of explication and clarification of constructs.
> They selected a "test" that purports to assess "Is success more
> important to you than harmony?"
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Peter
>
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