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| Chapter 7: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior |
Do a California Q-sort on yourself! This is a very unusual way to measure personality. When you complete most surveys you have only one decision to make, to decide the degree to which each item is or is not like you. However, with such a survey, it is possible that someone could mark "1" (not like me) or "5" (exactly like me) for every single item on the scale. No one is "not like me" or "exactly like me" on everything; the Q-sort forces test takers to use the full range of the scale. When you complete a Q-sort you have 2 decisions to make: (1) you have to decide the degree to which each item is characteristic or not characteristic of you; and, (2) you have to decide if that one trait is more or less characteristic of you, compared to all other 100 traits. This description of the Q-sort makes it sound a bit more difficult than it actually is to take, however, it is time consuming. (Please set aside about one-hour).
Go to your textbook author's research website: http://rap.ucr.edu/qsorter/ and there you will find the Q-sort computer program, along with instructions.
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