Recent work has questioned the psychometric properties of the Central Life Interest Inventory. This study of 173 subjects ranging from office clerks to corporate vice presidents demonstrated acceptable coefficients of stability for that instrument under a variety of assumptions and methods. An admonition to reassess conceptual and empirical work relying on this instrument may have been premature.
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