Sub-scales
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24 sub-scales:
- Overall score: the tendency to check more or fewer adjectives
- Favorability of self-description: the tendency to check more or fewer favorable adjectives as self-descriptive
- Unfavorability of self-description: the tendency to check more or fewer unfavorable adjectives as self-descriptive
- Defensiveness: "self-controlled and resolute" (high) vs. "anxious and apprehensive" (low)
- Self-Confidence: "assertive, affiliative, outgoing" (high) vs. "unassuming, forgetful, mild" (low)
- Self-Control: "serious, sober" (high) vs. "headstrong, irresponsible, complaining" (low)
- Lability: "spontaneous...excitable, temperamental" (high) vs. "phlegmatic, routinized, planful" (low)
- Personal Adjustment: "dependable, peacable, trusting" (high) vs. "aloof, defensive, anxious" (low)
- Achievement: the tendency to "strive to be outstanding in pursuits of socially recognized significance"
- Dominance: the tendency to "seek and sustain leadership roles in groups or to be influential and controlling in individual relationships"
- Endurance: the tendency to "persist in any task undertaken"
- Order: the tendency to "place special emphasis on neatness, organization, and planning in one's activities"
- Intraception: the tendency to "engage in attempts to understand one's own behavior or the behavior of others"
- Nurturance: the tendency to "engage in behaviors which extend material or emotional benefits to others"
- Affiliation: the tendency to "seek and sustain numerous personal friendships"
- Heterosexuality: the tendency to "seek the company of and derive emotional satisfactions from interactions with opposite-sexed peers"
- Exhibition: the tendency to "behave in such a way as to elicit the immediate attention of others"
- Autonomy: the tendency to "act independently of others or of social values and expectations"
- Aggression: the tendency to "engage in behaviors which attack or hurt others"
- Change: the tendency to "seek novelty of experience and avoid routine"
- Succorance: the tendency to "solicit sympathy, affection, or emotional support from others"
- Abasement: the tendency to "express feelings of inferiority through self-criticism, guilt, or social impotence"
- Deference: the tendency to "seek and sustain subordinate roles in relationships with others"
- Counseling Readiness: : "feels left out of things, unable to enjoy life to the full, and unduly anxious" (high) vs. "self-confident, poised, sure of himself and outgoing" (low)
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