7 SOCIAL PERFORMANCE-SCALES FOR THE CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL INVENTORY

This article describes the construction and validation of 7 scales for the California Psychological Inventory (Cough, 1975, 1987) based on a socioanalytic interpretation of the Five-Factor Model. The scale cons truction differed from traditional rational and empirical approaches i n that it regarded responses to personality items as speech acts-skill ed performances that create an effect on an audience. Expected group d ifferences across 10 samples (total N = 763) and relations with other personality inventory scores, vocational choice, educational achieveme nt, drug use and anti-social behavior, job performance, and observer r atings supported the construct validity of the scales.