Self-discrepancy: Long-term test-retest reliability and test-criterion predictive validity.
@article{Watson2016SelfdiscrepancyLT, title={Self-discrepancy: Long-term test-retest reliability and test-criterion predictive validity.}, author={Neill Watson and Brandon Cory Bryan and Todd M. Thrash}, journal={Psychological assessment}, year={2016}, volume={28 1}, pages={ 59-69 } }
Long-term test-retest reliability and predictive test-criterion evidence of validity of scores on measures of the real-ideal self-discrepancy and of the real-ought self-discrepancy were tested over periods of 1 year and 3 years. A sample of 184 undergraduates completed at 2 time points 1 year apart 3 instruments that each measure the 2 self-discrepancies: the idiographic Self-Concept Questionnaire-Personal Constructs, the nonidiographic Self-Concept Questionnaire-Conventional Constructs, and…
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