THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A BRIEF Q-SORT MEASURE OF PERSONALITY, THE ANGELO Q-SET

This article reports the development of a brief relatively comprehensi ve measure of personality based on the Q-sort technique, the Angelo Q- Set (AQS). It has 10 traits selected from qualities nested within the structure of the Big Five supertraits. It was administered to 332 unde rgraduates. Some also completed a measure of the Big Five, the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Others completed the AQS on two occasions to permit an examination of test-retest reliability. Results showed th at AQS scores are reliable, and they, correlate in expected ways with Big Five supertraits. Factor analysis of the AQS revealed sh orthogona l factors, five of which approximate the Big Five. Some possible appli cations of the AQS are discussed.