Internal consistency reliability estimates were obtained for two samples of college students for the Jackson Personality Inventory using Bender's coefficient theta. In the California sample (n = 82), values ranged from .84 to .95, with a median of .93. The Pennsylvania sample (n = 307) yielded a range of .75 to .93, with a median of .90.
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