Norberto Orozco Portales III

IV – 21 BSE Values Education majors

 PURPOSE
The HSPQ is a new aid for teachers, guidance :
counselors and for general clinical and research use.
It is a standardized test that can be given within a
class period to individuals or in groups, to yield a
general assessment to personality development.
Measures distinct (14) dimensions or traits of
personality which have been found by psychologist to
come near to covering the total personality
By working with these 14 scores, the psychologist can
obtain prediction of school achievement, vocational
fitness, danger of delinquency, likelihood of
leadership qualities, need for clinical help in neurotic
condition, etc.
Reading level of the test is adapted to ages 11-12
through 18 years old
ADMINISTRATION
The test is administered without a time limit but can be
complete by all, but the slowest readers finish in about 40-
50 minutes per form.
During the test meaning words may be explained to an
examinee upon request, except for the intelligence scales
no. (23, 24, 43, 44, 63, 64, 83, 84, 104, 124)
The average time needed by high school pupils to finish the
test will generally fall with in a class period of 50 to 60
minutes definitely better performance can insured in the
slower examinees by calling out at 10, 20 and 30 minutes
from the start.
Individual testing can be carried out with essentially the
same procedure as group testing so that one leaves the
examinees tor read instructions himself, you ask questions
if necessary and to work alone.
 SCORING
Check to see that each question has been given one
and only one answers at the same time, not yet
whether there are gross oddities of response which
could upset the keys. Watch for the occasional child
who makes all positions, or who proceeds mechanically
to mark all right hand responses, etc. reject such
answer sheet.
Place cardboard stencil key no. 1 on the left hand side
of the answer sheet adjusting it as described right to
the key. All necessary instructions for applying the
hand stencil key to get “raw scores” for 7 of the factor
are also printed on the key itself. Do the same with
cardboard stencil key no. 2 to get the other raw scores.
 STANDARDIZATION:
Norms in Stens and Centiles
The main standard scores are stens, in which a
person can score from 1 to 10, but additionally,
scores can be converted to centiles, which shows
what rank the examinees would have in a group of
a hundred people.
To obtain the sten score or centile ranks, simply
take a raw score you get from applying the scoring
key and enter in the appropriate table in the
tabular supplement with norms published
separately for the test
 INTERPRETING the SCORES
Each dimension is defined by two poles or extremes.
The left hand one description is a score at the low end
of the stens (1, 2 and 3) and the right hand, at the high
end (8, 9, and 10).
Fourteen sources of information are really not too
many to handle when one considers that a
comprehensive description of personality is
conveyed. The information can be packaged in even
more condensed form in terms of three or four broad
and therefore more approximate categories, each of
which combines in one score or estimate, 4 or more of
the original 14 scores.
 BRIEF DESCRIPTION of the
14 HSPQ Personality Factors
Low Sten Score Description Alphabetic High Sten Score Description
Designation
of Factor
A boy/girl with low score is: A boy/girl with high score is:
Reserved, detached, critical, A Warmhearted, outgoing,
aloof, stiff easygoing, participating
Less intelligent, concrete B More intelligent, abstract
thinking, of lower scholastic thinking, bright, of higher
mental capacity scholastic mental capacity
Affected by feelings, C Emotionally stable, mature, faces
emotionally less stable easily, reality, calm, of higher ego stretch
upset, changeable (not the same as egolistical)
Undemonstrative, deliberate, D Excitable, impatient, demanding,
inactive, stodgy, phlegmatic overactive, unrestrained
 BRIEF DESCRIPTION of the
14 HSPQ Personality Factors
Low Sten Score Description Alphabetic High Sten Score Description
Designation
of Factor
A boy/girl with low score is: A boy/girl with high score is:
Obedient, mild, easily led, E Assertive, competitive, aggressive,
accommodating, submissive stubborn, dominant
Sober, taciturn, Serious F Enthusiastic, heedless, happy-go-
lucky
Disregards rules, expedient, G Conscientious, persistent,
has weaker super ego strength moralistic stand, has stronger
super ego strength
Shy, timid, threat sensitive H Adventurous “thick-skinned”,
socially bold
Tough-minded, rejects, I Tender minded, sensitive,
illusions clinging, over projected
 BRIEF DESCRIPTION of the
14 HSPQ Personality Factors
Low Sten Score Description Alphabetic High Sten Score Description
Designation
of Factor
A boy/girl with low score is: A boy/girl with high score is:
Zestful, likes group actions J Circumspect individualism,
reflective, internally restrained
Self assured, placid, secure, O Apprehensive, self-reproducing,
complacent, untroubled insecure, worrying, guilt prone
Socially group dependent, Q2 Self sufficient, prefers own
joiner and sound follower decision, resourceful
Uncontrolled, lax, follows own Q3 Controlled, socially-precise, self-
urges, careless of social rule, disciplined, compulsive, has high
has low integration self concept control
Relaxed, tranquil, torpid, Q4 Tense, driven, over-wrought,
unfrustrated, composed frustrated, fretful