The Personal Attitude Scale-II: A Revised Measure of Spontaneity
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measuring spontanietyAbstract
In this study, the authors report a revision of the Personal Attitude Scale (PAS), a 58-item spontaneity measure, developed by Collins, Kumar, Treadwell, and Leach (1997) and test for its reliability and validity. After an item analysis (n = 544), the authors retained 66 of the 88 items to form the new scale, called the PAS-II, for which they found high internal consistency reliability and test-retest reliability coefficient (n = 167). The authors present evidence of construct validity for the PAS-II. Using Bonferroni p = .003 (overall a = .05 to test for significance) as hypothesized, the authors found that the PAS-II correlated positively with self-report measures of selfactualization,
extraversion, creative capacity, and playfulness and negatively with measures of neuroticism and depression. The PAS-II did not correlate (Bonferroni p>.003) with either the Lie (faking good) or the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scales.
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