Consumable Booklet of T.M, Rega. No. 564838 Copyright Regd. No. © A-73256/2005 Dt 13.505 SCT-pp L. N. Dubey (Jabalpur) Archana Dubey (Jabalpur) (English Version) Please fill in the following entries : [Deate fez) [en se fe Ja] Name. Father'sName Date of Birth] | Gender: Male Female Qualification. Faculty : Arts[_] Commerce [_] Science Technical Institution : City/Town. Area: Metro[]Urban[]Rural[]__ Type of Family : Joint []single [] INSTRUCTIONS Onthe following pages 50 incomplete sentences have been given. Readthe sentence and complete it with the first thought comes to your mind. There are no right or wrong answers. Please do complete all the 50 statements. Be rest assured, your responses will be kept strictly confidential. SCORING TABLE Trait Raw Score | z-Score Sociability Self-confidence ‘Ambitious Full Test Scorer, Estd. 1971 www.npcindia.com ‘® (0562) 2601080 NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CORPORATION UG-1, Nirmal Heights, Near Mental Hospital, Agra-282 007 Scanned with CamScanner21 Consumable Booklet of SCT-0D Sr. No. SENTENCES 1. Social functions 2 1 when I think going out of house/home. 3 1 about my dress. I when I meet a stranger. In my opinion 6. Sometimes I think eee ee 7. The guests who come to my house—_______________ 8. When somebody asks me several questions then. 9. I feel proud that [___ 10, When alone T_T ya J heen travelling alone. 12 1 when talking with boys/girls. 18, I feel ashmed when 14. If it happened so I__—___$_$_$_____ 15. I feel happy whe 16. The memory of the happening__me. 17. IfIhad. area q [= 0 Tt item No. “ff 11] 12 e]o]wli7|s |e) 13) 4] ts Raw Score | | Total | Scanned with CamScannerConsumable Booklet of SCT-00 | 3 Sr. No. SENTENCES 18. I feel perturbed —__ 1 Tt about my future. 20. Very often I feel that I. 21. Forgetting a success, in my opinion _______ 22, I feel unhappy when, 23. When in a crowd I 24. My weaknessis. 25. Ido not know why I 26. My difficulty is 27. Onall sides I 28. My interest for outdoor games 29. Ido not feel good when 30. IwishthatI 81. Inmy family all: peoples= == = tt ae A 82: ~~ Very often other people" “i itaee ybeden won 8b f 33. I do not want that 34. My companions think thatI——— oy 7 i 0 Tem, [es [ af [a] @)e|wlal2]= a] ela ln) el elo Faw Score| | | Total Scanned with CamScanner4 Consumable Booklet of SCT-00 (Sr. No. SENTENCES 35. The cause of my unhappiness is. 36. | When somebody wants my thing(s). 37. IfI 38, I—__________ when talking to elders. 39. I, in the eyes of my parents—__ 40. I to do the work quickly. 4. #L in taking decision quickly. 42, In putting my standpoint to others J_________ 43. Comfortably I 44, The cause of my failure. 45. When I get up from sleep___ TTT Sty problem 47. If may get my rights then___/"[["[{[{___> 48. Marriage in my opinion is. 49. | When nobody accepts my view then. 50. In the darkness 1 as 7 i a) Game slatuls]@l«[«|«|s]«[e]=ls "| *|@ Raw Score [ Tot AAT) | eer am ee Scanned with CamScannerManual for SENTENCE COMPLETION TEST SCT_pp L. N. Dubey (Retd.) Professor College of Educational Psychology and Guidance JABALPUR (M.P) & Archana Dubey Govt. M.H. College of Home Science JABALPUR (M. P.) TM Copyright Regd. No. An ISO 9001 : 2008 Certified Company ISBN : 978-93-86203-70-0 Estd. 1971 www.npcindia.com ® (0562) 2601080 NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CORPORATION UG-1, Nirmal Heights, Near Mental Hospital, Agra-282 007 Scanned with CamScannerINTRODUCTION In the Sentence Completion Test the subject is asked to complete a sentence of which the first word or words are given. The tester encourages the subjects to write the responses as quick as possible, though the quickness of response is encouraged, there is no attempt to measure speed of reaction. The response tends to provide information that the subject is willing to give, not that which he cannot help giving. Analysis is usually more similar to that used with the Thematic Apperception Test to Word Association Method. As in other project devices, it is assumed that the subject reflects his own wishes, desires, fears and attitudes in the sentences he composes, but this method differs in the subject's production does not depend so much upon his interpretation of the standard stimulus as upon what he is able and willing to write under the test conditions. In contrast to the usual objectives tests, the sentence completion method has the distinct advantage of providing freedom of response instead of forcing the subject to answer "Yes’ or ‘No’ or ?’. He can response the stimulus as he wants. In addition, the nature of the test is somewhat designed and itis less clear to the subject, what constitute ‘good’ or ‘bad’ answer. He cannot manipulate the answers. Sentence beginnings vary. It may start from third person such as ‘He’, ‘She’ or the use of common names such as Mary, James. Personal pronoun is also frequently used in relation to verbs, e.g., | like, | wish, | think ; neutral stimuli in which no pronouns are used are also presented. The sentence beginnings may be highly structured such as “The most fun we had last suramer.... ." or highly unstructured such as, in the sentence beginning “Sometimes... In a recent study Sacks constructed two forms of the Sentence Completion Test in order to compare the value of items stated in the-first person with items stated in the third person. Six of seven psychologists participating in the rating found the form of the test employing the first person to be superior. Generally, sentence starting from first person or with the situation in which the subject feels his own, involvement, he reveals his inner feelings. Scanned with CamScanneroe ee 4 | Manual for SCT-00 In this test most of the sentences are starting with first person or situation is kept in such a way that his personal involvement is necessary. He expresses his own feeling, liking, attitude etc. Sentence Completion Tests are a class of semi-structured projective techniques. Sentence Completion Tests typically provide respondents with beginnings of Sentences, referred to as ‘stems’, and respondents then complete the sentences in ways that are meaningful to them. The responses are believed to provide indications of attitudes, belots, motivations or other mental states. Therefore, sentence completion technique, with such advantage, promotes the respondents to disclose their concealed feelings. Notwithstanding, there is debate over whether or not sentence completion tests elicit responses from conscious thought rather than unconscious states. This debate would affect whether sentence completion tests can be strictly categorized as projective tests. Asentence completion test form may be relatively short, such as those used to assess responses to advertisements, or much longer, such as those used to assess personality. Along sentence completion test is Forer Sentence Completion Tests, which has 100 stems. The tests are usually administered in booklet form where respondents complete the stems by writing words on paper. The structures of sentence completion tests vary according to the length and relative generality and wording of the sentence stems. Structured tests have longer stems that lead respondents to more specific types of responses; less structured tests provide shorter stems, which produce a wider variety of responses. Hermann Ebbinghaus is generally credited with developing the first sentence completion test in 1897. Ebbinghaus’s sentence completion test was used as part of an intelligence test. Simultaneously, Carl Jung’s word association test may also have been 2 Procursor to modern sentence completion tests. Moreover, in recent decades, sentence completion tests have increased in usage, in part because they are easy to develop and easy to administer. As of the 1980s, sentence completion tests were the eighty-fifth most widely used personality assessment instruments. Another reason for the increased usage of sentence completion tests is because of their superiority to other measures in uncovering a = ar Want Cees canned wi amscannerManual for SCT-o0| 5 conflicted attitudes. Some sentence completion tests were developed as a way to overcome the problems associated with thematic apperception measures of the same constructs. The uses of sentence completion tests include personality analysis, clinical applications, attitude assessment, achievement motivation and measurement of other constructs. They are used in several disciplines, including psychology, management, education and marketing. Sentence Completion measures have also been incorporated into non-projective applications, such as intelligence tests, language comprehension and language and cognitive development tests. The most widely used sentence completion tests include : Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (assesses personality traits; perhaps the most widely used of all sentence completion tests). ‘Miner Sentence Completion Test (measures managerial motivations). ‘Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT) from Jane Loevinger (measures ego development). Objectives The objectives of this test is to measure certain personality traits. An attempt has been made to measure three personality characteristics through the responses of the subjects. These traits are : (1) Sociability, (2) Self-confidence, (3) Ambitious. All the sentences are so framed that they lead to reveal the position or negative aspect related to one of the traits. Administration There is no special training required for a person administering the test. It is easily administered in a group of 30 students like other objective tests. Instruction In the Sentence Completion Test the instructions are simple. The subjects are to be told that it is a simple sentence completion test. In this test incomplete sentence are given, and they have to complete the incomplete sentences as quickly as possible with the first Scanned with CamScanner—_ 6 | Manual for SCT-00 thought that comes in their mind. They are expected to write the sentences that carry full meaning. There is no time limit in this test, but the subjects should be asked to complete the test as quickly as they can. No sentence is to be left incomplete. Scoring Every sentence can be placed into the following three categories : 1. Positive—That shows the positive aspect of one of the traits. —Award 2 Score 2. Negative—That shows the negative aspect of one of the traits. —Award 1 Score | 3. Neutral—That shows neither positive nor negative aspect traits —Award 0 Score | Alll the scores should be added traitwise as well as of total test. TABLE 1 Categories Score Awarded Positive 2 Negative 1 Neutral 0 Explanation All the sentences are kept in such a way that either they reveal the Positive or Negative aspect of any one of the given traits. There is possibility of such responses which may not reveal either positive or negative aspect of the trait. Sample This test has been standardized on a sample of 1,150 students drawn from schools and colleges of M.P., 450 girls and 700 boys are included in the e sample by stratified random sampling method. The age range is 14 to 19 years. a Reliability TABLE 2 Method Sociability | Self-confidence | Ambitious Total _| Split Half 0.72" 0.69" 0.73" 0.62" Test-Retest 0.76" O71" 0.68" 0.67" * Significant at 0.01 level of significance. Scanned with CamScannerValidity Manual for SCT-0017 The validation criterian used for this test is the correlation of the test rating scores of only 10 per cent of the sample by the teachers. The coefficient of correlation are as below : TABLE 3 Sr. No. Traits Coefficient of Correlations | I Sociability — 0.66 iM Self-confidence -0.73 uM Ambitious -0.69 Number of Statements Indicating the Trait TABLE 4 Trait Area Serial No. of Statements Total Sociability 1,3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 23, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 36, 48 15 Self-confidence | 2, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25, 27, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50 20 Ambitious 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 24, 26, 30, 33, 35, 37, 43, 47 15 Total | 50 REVISING THE NORMS With the data received from the field by various users of the Test, the Statistical Results have been revised with the additional data from 680 subjects (380 boys and 300 girls). As such, the total N is as following : TABLE 5 Revised Sample Population Male Female Total ] 1,080 750 1,830 ia a Scanned with CamScanner8 | Manual for SCT-pp Revised Statistical Results TABLE 6 Revised Statistical Results N= 1,830 Sr. No. Traits Items. Range of Score Mean SD I Sociability 15 00—30 19.50 4.13 wt Self-confidence 20 00—40 26.00 5.28 tt Ambitious 15 00—30 20.00 4.61 Total 50 00—100 65.50 14.02 ; Norms Based on the statistical results presented in Table 6, z-Score Norms have been developed. The norms have been developed trait-wise *Sociability, *Self-confidence and “Ambitious and for the full scale as well. The z-Score norms have been presented as Trait—Sociability. Table 7, Self-confidence Table 8, Ambitious Table 9 and for full Scale in Table 10. Norms for interpretation of the level of Personality Traits, have been given in table 11 and for total personality type in table 12. TABLE 7 z-Score Norms for the Trait-! : Sociability Mean=19.50 SD =4.13 N= 1,830 Raw | zScore | Raw | zScore | Raw | zScore | Raw | zscore Score Score Score Score 00 -472 08 -2.78 16 - 0.85 24 + 1,08 01 -4.47 09 — 2.54 17 - 0.60 25 +1.33 02 = 4.23 10 2.30 18 = 0.36 26 +157 03 -3.99 1" = 2.05 19 = 0.12 27 +1.81 04 -3.75 12 =1.81 20 +0.12 28 + 2.05 05 -3.51 13 -1.57 21 +0.36 29 +2.30 06 ~ 3.26 14 = 1.33 22 +0.60 30 + 2.54 07 3.02 15 ~ 1.08 23 +0.85 Scanned with CamScannerManual for SCT-001 9 TABLE 8 z-Score Norms for Trait-Il : Self-confidence Mean = 26.00 SD = 5.28 N= 1,830 Raw | zScore | Raw | zscore| Raw | zscore | Raw | zScore Score Score Score Score 00 - 4.92 1 = 2.84 22 = 0.75 33 +132 ) 1 -4.73 12 2.65 23 - 0.56 34 +1.51 02 = 4.54 13 =2.46 24 =0.37 35 +1.70 : 03 ~4.35 14 -2.27 25 -0.18 36 +1.89 04 -4.16 15 - 2.08 26 £0.00 37 +2.08 05 -3.97 16 -1.89 27 +0.18 38 +2.27 06 -3.79 7 = 1.70 28 +0.37 39 + 2.46 07 -3.60 18 -1.51 29 +0.56 40 + 2.65 08 -3.41 19 -1.32 30 +0.75 09 -3.22 20 =1.13 31 +0.94 10 = 3.03 21 —0.94 32 +113 TABLE 9 z-Score Norms for Trait-lll : Ambitious Mean = 20.00 SD =4.61 N= 1,830 (Raw z-Score | Raw zScore | Raw | zScore | Raw | zScore Score Score Score Score 00 -4.33 08 -2.60 16 - 0.86 24 +0.86 01 -4.12 09 - 2.38 17 — 0.65 25 + 1.08 02 —3.90 10 -2.16 18 - 0.43 26 +1.30 03 - 3.68 11 - 1.95 19 0.21 27 +151 04 -3.47 12 -1.73 20 + 0.00 28 +173 905 ~3.25 13 -1.51 21 +0.21 29 +1.95 | 06 | -3.03 14 - 1.30 22 + 0.43 30 + 2.16 07 -0.81 15 = 1.08 23 + 0.65 ; Sn Scanned with CamScanner10 | Manual for SCT-00 TABLE 10 z-Score Norms for Full Test Mean=65.50 SD=14.02 N= 1,830 Raw | zscore | Raw | z-score | Raw | z-score | Raw | 2600, Score Score Score Score 00 -4.67 26 -2.81 52 = 0.96 78 +0.89 o1 - 4.60 27 -2.74 53 -0.89 79 + 0.98 02 -4.52 28 -2.67 54 -0.82 80 + 1.03 03 = 4.45 29 = 2.60 55 = 0.74 81 +110 04 -4.38 30 -2.53 56 -0.67 82 +117 05 =431 31 -2.46 57 - 0.60 83 +124 06 -4.24 32 = 2.38 58 -0.53 84 #131 07 -447 33 -2.31 59 - 0.46 85 +1.39 08 - 4.10 34 ~2.24 60 = 0.39 86 +146 09 - 4.02 35 -2.47 61 - 0.32 87 +1.53 10 = 3.95 36 =2.10 62 ~0.24 88 +1.60 11 ~3.88 37 __ | -203 63 -0.17 89 +1.67 12 -3.81 38 -1.96 64 -0.10 90 +174 13 -3.74 39 = 1.89 65 = 0.03 91 +1.81 14 -3.67 40 -1.81 66 + 0.03 92 + 1.89 15 -3.60 41 1.74 67 +0.10 93 +1.96 16 42 -1.67 68 +0.17 94 +2.03 7 so 1.60 69 + 0.24 95 +£2.10 |__18 % - 1.53 70 +0.32 $3 +217 19 45 - 1.46 71 +0.39 97 +2.24 | 20 a6 = 1.39 72 +0.48 $3 +231 24 a7 =1.31 73 + 0.53 99 + 2.38 7 42 =3.10 [48 [124] 74 +060 | 400 | +246 | 23 = 3.03 49 -1.17 75 + 0.67 24 -2.96 50 1.40 76 +074 25 -2.88 51 ~ 1.03 7 + 0.82 Scanned with CamScanner| | Manual for SCT-001 11 TABLE 11 Norms for Interpretation of the Level of Three Personality Traits Sr. No. Personality Traits zSdgore Grade Level Raw Score Range Range Sociability |Self-confidence | Ambitious 7. | 28 & above| 37 & above 30 (+201 A |Extremely High & above 2. |25to27 | 33t036 261029 |+1.26t0] B |High + 2.00 3. | 22t024 | 291032 231025 |+0.51to] C | Above Average +125 4. |18to21 |24t028 181022 [-050to! D | Average +0.50 5. |15to17 | 20to23 15t017 |-1.25to] E | Below Average - 0.51 6. |12t014 | 16to 19 111014 |-2.00t0] F |Low - 1.26 7. | 11 &below] 15 &below | 10 & below 2.01 G | Extremely Low & below TABLE 12 Norms for Interpretation of the Level of Personality (Full Test) Sr.No.] Raw Score] — z-Score Grade Level and Type of Personality Range Range 1. [94 & above | + 2.01 & above A__| Supreme Personality 2. |84t093 | +1.26t0+2.00/ B__| Highly Amicable Personality 3. 173 to 83 +0.51 to + 1.25 Cc Above Average Amicable Personality 4. |59t072 |-0.50t0+0.50/ __D__| Average Amicable Personality 5. |48to58 | 1.25to-0.51 E__ | Below Average Amicable Personality 6. }38t047 |-2.00to-1.26] F _| Highly Maladjusted Personality |? |87 & below [= 2.01 & below G_ | Extremely Maladjusted Personality Scanned with CamScanner— 12 | Manual for SCT-0D REFERENCES ‘Anderson, H.H. and Anderson, G.L. 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New York : Psychological Corporation. Rotter, J.B. : Lah, M.I. and Rafferty, J.E. (1992). Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank. San Antonio : Psychological Corporation, Stein, Mil. (1947). The Use of Sentence Completion Test for the Diagnosis of Personality. J. Clin. Psychol. 3, 46-56. Symonds, PM. (1947). The Sentence Completion Test as a Projective Technique. J. Abnorm and Soc. Psy. Techniques and Other Devices for Understanding the Dynamics of Human Behaviour Prentice Hall, Inc. New York. LP. Bhargava Book Qo ‘©2077. llrightsreserved. No portion ofthis Test material shouldbe reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher. Manual for Sentence Completion Test (SCT-20} (English Version) PAKS) — Scanned with CamScanner