THEORY, DEVELOPMENT, AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CPI SOCIALIZATION SCALE

The socialization (So) scale of the California Psychological Inventory is based partly on a role-taking or perspective-taking theory of soci al deviance and partly on the pragmatics of differentiating between mo re socialized and less socialized individuals. The theory, history, an d current applications of the scale are reviewed, relationships to oth er scales and measures are examined, and the validity of the scale in arraying 69 male and 40 female samples along a putative continuum of s ocialization is evaluated. Finally, from these findings and from analy ses of observers' adjectival and Q-sort descriptions significantly rel ated to the scale, an interpretive psychology of the measure is propou nded.