The project aims to develop a comprehensive questionnaire to assess personality among all south african language groups. In the first, qualitative part of the study, semistructured interviews were conducted with 1,216 participants from the 11 official language groups. We are interested in the psychometric properties of the south african personality inventory, a personality measure developed to apply equally to speakers of all official languages in south africa, by testing for measurement invariance across the four ethnocultural groups in south africa. Lastly, to be investigated are the relationships between gender and academic procrastination, age and academic procrastination, number of siblings and academic procrastination. Pdf we present the development and the underlying structure of a personality inventory for the main ethnocultural groups of south africa.
The basic traits inventory bti is an easy to use, south african developed personality inventory that assesses the big five factors of personality, namely extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. Labuschagne, honsbcom minidissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree magister commercii in industrial psychology at the northwest university potchefstroom campus. Practical realistic p scientific investigative w artistic a social service s. The basic traits inventory was specifically designed for use in the multicultural and multilingual south african context. List of classified and certified psychological tests south african. This study presents an investigation into the internal structure of the learning potential construct as measured by the apilb test battery developed by taylor 1997. Africentric worldview scale was used to test the africentric worldview of participants. Attempts at accelerated affirmative development will be effective to the extent to which there exists a comprehensive understanding of the factors underlying training performance success and the manner in which.
The relationship between procrastination and academic. Description a south african big five personality questionnaire. The sapi, an acron ym for the south african personality inven tory, is a project that aims t o develop an indigenous personality measure for all 11 o cial languages in south africa. The study intended to develop an indigenous and psychometrically sound. The development of an investigation into the psychometric properties of the intellect cluster a.
The purpose of this paper is to examine salient factors accounting for south africa s relatively peaceful transition from apartheid state to nonracial democracy, focusing on the political personalities of south african leaders p. The south african vocational interest inventory savii r. Implications for higher education, aubrey immelman and roelf van niekerk. Bibliography a south african big five personality questionnaire. Participate in south africas first ever indigenous. Each question has radio buttons to answer yes or no.
Participants are byron adams tilburg university, tilburg, the netherlands, and university of. The unfair useage of the 16pf sa92 in south africa. Here are some questions regarding the way you behave, feel, and act. The results advance the aim of the south african personality inventory to. Submissions from 1995 pdf article all the mens president the political personality of bill clinton, aubrey immelman. The bti is a valid and reliable personality instrument as indicated by results from research by taylor 2004, taylor. Kaunda 1971, speaking on african humanism, defended african personality from the misconceptions of western writers who fail to appreciate that, for the african, personality should have an intrinsic. Toward a new approach to the study of personality in culture. Nigrescence is the process of converting from negro to black among the people of the african diaspora. The south african personality inventory sapi was developed based on an extensive qualitative study of the implicit personality conceptions in the countrys 11 official languages nel et al. An investigation into the internal structure of the learning. The manner in which an individual responds to a personality questionnaire is.
The ten item personality inventory adapted from the bigfive was administered was used to test the big five personality index among participants. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, university of south africa, pretoria. The south african personality inventory sapi was developed based on an extensive qualitative study of the implicit personality concepti. South african personality inventory sapi was developed based on an extensive qualitative study of the implicit personality conceptions in the countrys 11 official languages nel et al. The sapi was conceptualised in order to address the need for an indigenous south african personality assessment. Personality inventory for dsm5 brief form in an undergraduate sample of south african university students heleen venema1, ruan spies1, and leon t. Exploring the personality structure in the 11 languages of. Negritude represents the active claiming of those best elements of a common african personality by the people of africa. The personality inventory fordiagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5th ed dsm5brief form pid. Therefore, studies investigating the crosscultural applicability of personality instruments in the south african context have had to take the variable of race into account. Velichko fetvadjiev victoria university of wellington. Eysencks personality inventory epi psychology test. Items were generated and selected to a final set of 146 with a continuous focus on. For the purpose of this study, we used an 82item version of the sapi which.
Psychometric properties of the personality inventory for dsm. With the high rate of violent crime and domestic violence in south africa it is imperative that we start to view these studies, conducted locally. Participants are byron adams university of johannesburg and tilburg university, gideon p. West university, deon meiring university of pretoria and university of. Jvr histories history of psychometric testing in south africa. Exploring the crosscultural application of social desirability within the sapi project. Psychology faculty publications psychology college of. The south african personality inventory sapi was developed based on an extensive.
South african personality inventory 2 abstract we present the development and the underlying structure of a personality inventory for the main ethnocultural groups of south africa, using an emicetic approach. A new south african personality inventory, to be developed in the proposed project, should be applicable in a fair, equitable manner and should show predictive validity in various applied settings, and should show as little adverse impact as possible. The big five personality test is by far the most scientifically validated and reliable psychological model to measure personality. Investigating measurement invariance in the south african. Earlier versions of the inventory were completed by a total of 3,000 individuals in six countries argentina, germany, india, israel, nigeria and south africa. In addition, changes to the health professions act 56 of 1974 introduced more stringent regulation around access to and use of psychological tests. Overall, there was significant difference on the emotional stability subscale of the ten item personality inventory. Personality measurement short measures abstract the big five inventory 2 bfi2 uses 60 items to hierarchically assess the big five personality domains and 15 morespeci. The crosscultural compatability of the 16 personality factor. It is also used commercially by psychologists, career counselors, and other professionals. Secondly, the research will investigate whether certain personality traits of individuals are linked to proneness to procrastination. Download a copy of hollands model pdf 188kb word 191kb there is much research to support hollands typology. Cpai2 ir interpersonal relatedness scales of the crosscultural personality assessment inventory s. So a few clever psychologists got together and created the south african personality inventory sapi.
It measures the five factors of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness, but unlike the neopir, the bti has five facets within each factor. Parametric associational tests pearsons correlation coefficient were used to test the relationship between these two variables. Sapi south african personality inventory, in development nel et al. Three approaches to culture and personality three approaches to the study of personality in its cultural context can be distinguished. Dec 31, 2012 personality assessment in south africa and africa abrahams, f. Items were generated and selected to a final set of 146 with a continuous focus on cultural adequacy and translatability.
Practitioners indicated that they needed tests that were appropriate for the multicultural south african context, that were available in all the official languages, and that were regularly updated. The personality inventory fordiagnostic and statistical. The employment equity act, 55 of 1998, section 8 government gazette, 1998 provides clear guidelines for psychometric testing in south africa. Baron model of social and emotional intelligence esi. However it is not without criticism, the most common being the prevalence of females to score in three personality types artistic, social and conventional. This is probably due to the fact that, as the hsrc was the sole developer of tests for a long period in the history of psychological testing in south africa, many practitioners were trained in and purchased hsrc tests and have become experienced users of these tests. There it was placed on a list of psychological tests under development. Factors were extracted using maximum likelihood with oblimin rotation for the twofactor solutions. Part 3 examines the nomological network of the new inventory in an emicetic framework by focusing on. Psychometric properties of the south african personality inventory. In the last ten years, the south african personality inventory sapi has been developed as an indigenous measurement of personality for the multicultural environment of south africa.
African personality testifies to the fluidity of the concept depending on whether one is defining it from a cultural, sociological, psychological, political or anthropological standpoint. Dec 17, 2015 locally, there has been no scientifically sound quiz to reveal your personality type, and international questionnaires dont take our unique culture into account. Personality and wellbeing in black and white south african. Each trait consists of four or five facets or subtraits, that provide narrower and more specific personality descriptions. A quantitative design with an exploratory approach was used to collect data. A major research project that stemmed from my phd is the south african personality inventory sapi project, which focuses on the development of an indigenous personality inventory for all language groups in south africa. Pdf developing and testing items for the south african personality. The eysenck personality inventory epi measures two pervasive, independent dimensions of personality, extraversionintroversion, and neuroticismstability, which account for most of the variance in the personality domain. Emotional intelligence questionnaire eiq thomas international. South african personality inventory to address the issues surrounding valid, reliable and fair assessment in a multicultural context, the south african personality inventory sapi project was initiated, aimed to develop a personality model and instrument that is applicable to the various cultural and language groups. Developing and testing items for the south african personality.
A multicultural country like south africa needs fair. We present the development and the underlying structure of a personality inventory for the main ethnocultural groups of south africa, using an emicetic. Prof deon meiring short cv 20 university of pretoria. Investigating the factor structure of the south african personality inventory english version. Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of commerce in the faculty of economic and management sciences at stellenbosch university. Developing and testing items for the south african personality inventory sapi. Tilburg university bias and equivalence of psychological measures. The sixteen personality factor questionnaire 16pf heather e. Article south africa s transition to majority rule. Validation of the emotional stability scale of the south african personality inventory. Mar 26, 20 the development of the south african personality inventory sapi began in 2005. The purpose of the savii is to measure the occupational interests of all south african learners in grades 8 to 12. Mead introduction the sixteen personality factor questionnaire 16pf is a comprehensive measure of normalrange personality found to be effective in a variety of settings where an indepth assessment of the whole person is needed.
It consists of 193 items and it takes about 20 minutes to complete. South africa has started to conduct studies on psychopathy looking at the etiology, prevalence and treatment of the disorder. Pdf developing and testing items for the south african. The aim of the sapi is to assess personality in an unbiased and equivalent way.
Personality and wellbeing in black and white south. Senior south african individual scale revised ssaisr mindmuzik media 181115 situationspecific evaluation expert batteries speex batteries pibspeex 1814 sixteen personality factor questionnaire 16pf jvr psychometrics 1811232 south african vocational interest inventory savii mindmuzik media 181128. The crosscultural applicability of the 16 personality factors inventory. The south african vocational interest inventory savii. The questionnaire consists of 126 items, divided into six fields of 21 items each. This article reports on the process of identifying items for, and provides a quantitative evaluation of, the south african personality inventory sapi items. The sample consisted of n524 students from tertiary institutions in the gauteng and the north west provinces of south africa. The researchers are currently investigating versions of sapi in different languages. We present the development and the underlying structure of a personality inventory for the main ethnocultural groups of south africa, using an emicetic approach.
Jul 25, 2017 using the data they had collected, meiring and his team developed a new personality inventory and sent it to the health professions council of south africa in 2014. In the first, qualitative part of the study, semistructured interviews were conducted with 1,216 participants from the 11. In one of these studies, meiring 2006 obtained commonalities of three personality tests, namely the. Basic traits inventory bti catalogue jvr africa group. Psychometric properties of the personality inventory for. Psychological testing in south africa cannot be investigated in isolation. Items were generated and selected to a final set of 146. Development of the south african personality inventory. Inventory hpi, hogan development survey hds, and motives, values, preferences inventory mvpi received. The first translation of the eqi was from english to spanish to allow for extensive data collection in argentina, 7 which was followed by data collection in a number of other countries. A new indigenous personality test for south africa.
The present research develops two abbreviated forms of the bfi2the 30item bfi2s and the 15item bfi2xsand then examines theirmeasurement. Examining the construct validity of the basic traits inventory and the tenitem personality inventoryin the south african context. Part 1 presents the development of the south african personality inventory sapi and investigates its underlying structure across groups. The crosscultural compatability of the 16 personality. This test is, together with the jung test and the disc assessment, one of the most well known personality tests worldwide. The sapi, an acronym for the south african personality inventory, is a project that aims to develop an indigenous personality measure for all 11 official languages in south africa. Exploring the personality structure in the 11 languages in south africa. South african personality inventory the sapi project. Against this background, i examine salient factors accounting for south africa s relatively peaceful transition from apartheid state to nonracial democracy, focusing on situational variables as well as the personal characteristics of south african presidents p. African personality lacks clarity of meaning or distinctness of conceptualisation. A multicultural country like south africa needs fair crosscultural psychometric instruments.
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