SENTENCE COMPLETION

TEST

Consists of words or phrases, usually referred to as item stems, that people are asked to complete a sentence.

How individuals go about this task tends to reflect the kind of person they are.

Sentence Completion Test Method

Performance BasedSelf Report

Self Descriptions

Sentence Completion Test Method

Often provide indirect or direct clues to their underlying attitudes, affects and concerns.

Sentence Completion Test Method

Some Sentence Completion Test have been constructed with standard sets of items for use in general personality assessment/analysis clinical application, attitude assessment, achhievement motivation and measurement of other construct..

Example: Egocentricity Moral Attitudes Marital Satisfaction Depression

Sentence Completion Test Method

Is used to: Assess psychological

characteristics Construct formal measures of

intelligenceBy: Herman Ebbinghaus, 1987

Could contribute to assessing personality characteristics as well as intellectual functioning originated with some observations. (Carl Jung, 1916)

“Say the first word that comes to your mind.”

Sentence Completion Test Method

Three types of Data:Structural - consist of such objective response characteristic,Behavioral – manner in which people work on the sentence completion task,Thematic – provides a rich array of clues to their underlying feelings and attitudes and concern.

(e.g.: total time required to complete the test.)

(e.g.: careful or careless)

Sentence Completion Test Method

Can be phrased to evoke persons attitude towards specific individual.

Example: Mother __________Perspective on particular events and

circumstances in their lives.Example: In school __________

Sentence Completion Test Method

Example:

Sack’s Sentence Completion Test

Is a 60-item test that asks respondents to complete 60 questions with the first thing that comes to mind across four areas: Family, Sex, Interpersonal Relationship and Self-concept.

Sack’s Sentence Completion TestInterpretation Guide:2 - SEVERELY DISTURBED. Appears to require

conflicts in this area.1 - MIDLY DISTURBED. Has emotional conflict in this area but appears able to handle them without therapeutic aid.0 - NO SIGNIFICANT disturbance rated in this area.X - UNKNOWN, Insufficient evidence

Sack’s Sentence Completion Test

Attitude towards Own Ability (2, 7, 32 and 47)2 = feels completely incomplete and hopeless1 = feels he has a specific ability but tends to fear difficulty0 = confident on his ability to overcome obstacle

Interpretation Guide: