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A sentence completion task for eliciting personal constructs in specific domains

Grice, J. W, Burkley III, E., Burkley, M., Wright, S., Slaby, J.

Keywords:
sentence completion, self-concept, idiographic

Abstract:
A novel sentence completion task was developed to assess how individuals view themselves and others in different domains of experience. This task was incorporated into a repertory grid and evaluated in two studies. In the first study, ratings obtained from the grid procedure were shown to be internally consistent and reliable over time in two distinct domains of experience: mathematics and athletics. Moreover, ratings for oneself in the grids for each domain were found to be highly correlated with corresponding subscale scores from a popular multidimensional measure of self-concept. In the second study, the repertory grid ratings were again shown to be internally consistent and to yield information that was truly distinct across the domains of mathematics and athletics. Positive ratings for oneself in the grids were again shown to correlate highly with corresponding subscale scores from the same multidimensional measure of self-concept. The theoretical and methodological implications of these results and new procedures were discussed.