A Psychometric Evaluation of the Multiple Choice Version of the Miner Sentence Completion Scale

Abstract

A psychometric evaluation of the multiple choice version of the Miner Sentence Completion Scale (MSCS) was conducted. One hundred eighty-nine male and 82 female senior business students enrolled in a Business Policy course responded to the MSCS and the Manifest Needs Questionnaire (MNQ). Reliability estimates (coefficient alphas) were calculated for the subscales and the Total Score measure of the MSCS. The subjects' responses to the MSCS were also factor analyzed. Scale scores from the MSCS were correlated to the scores from the MNQ. The results indicated that the MSCS subscales lacked reliability and that the seven-subscale structure, suggested by Miner (1965), was not supported. The results and recommendations for the future use of the multiple choice version of the MSCS were discussed.

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