George V. C. Parker

TL;DR: For instance, the authors performed an empirical analysis of the item factor structure of most commonly used personality measurement instruments, such as the Adjective Check List (ACL) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MINIPI).

TL;DR: Factor analysis of Gough's 300-item Adjective Check List identified 8 highest-loading items for 7 factors of self-perception, which should be valuable for rapid, straight-forward, quantified self-description.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed empirically an ACL femininity scale through identification of ACL adjectives for which adjectives were appropriate for which the item endorsement was evaluated. But, although there are a number of existing scales for this inventory (Gough and Heilbrun, 1965), there has been no reported investigation thus far identifying systematically sex differences associated with ACL item endorsement.

TL;DR: In the area of test construction, response instability has traditionally been categorized as a kind of nuisance to be minimized in order to achieve test reliability as discussed by the authors, from a practical point of view.