Reliability and validity of the personal orientation inventory in South Africa

• Main Author: Schulz, Georg Martin
• Other Authors: Cilliers, Frans
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Self-actualization; Personal Orientation Inventory; Reliability; Validity; South African sample; 155.283; Self-actualization (Psychology); Humanistic psychology; Personality tests; Personal orientation inventory
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17695

A survey of literature has revealed that there is a need for a reliability and validity study of the Personal Orientation Inventory in South Africa. The two major objectives of this research where therefore to determine firstly, the test-retest reliability of the Personal Orientation Inventory and secondly, to establish the construct validity, in other words, how well the Personal Orientation Inventory correlates with other measures purporting to measure similar traits. The total sample of 317 individuals used in this research, consisted of both male and female school leavers such as students and national servicemen, ranging in age from 17 to 22 years. The results of this introductory study regarding reliability and validity of the Personal Orientation Inventory in South Africa demonstrated clear support for similar research done overseas and showed to be compatible with the humanistic psychology movement's original concept of self-actualization. === Industrial and Organisational Psychology === M.A. (Industrial Psychology)