Development and Validation of Item Response Theory based Computer Adaptive Pictorial Situational Judgment Test of Resilience

By : Y. K. Nagle, Gowtham Arumugam

Page No: 1-14

Abstract:
Recent years, Personality assessment has become more challenging in predicting future behavior of an individual, since existing personality inventories, projective and semi-projective techniques have certain limitations for the assessment of personality traits. Hence, the present study was undertaken to develop and validate Pictorial Situational Judgment Test of Resilience (P-SJT-R) which is one of the personality trait. Sample of the study constitute of males (n = 959) and females (n = 664) with age range of 18 to 24 years, Undergraduate and graduate students from across India participated in the study. Situational stem of P-SJT-R has 34 items (Pictorial and written) and response alternative which is designed to reproduce one of five resilience-related factors. Further, the study examined well established five factors of resilient behavior and captured individuals’ responses to adverse situations. The P-SJT-R is a viable alternative measure of resilience. The P-SJT-R has established sound psychometric properties using IRT 3-PL model, and have evidence of reliability and; construct and criterion-related validity. The replicability of these findings has to be tested in a large community sample to mirror the findings.These results provide support for the use of P-SJT-R for the purpose of measuring resilience.

Authors: 
Y. K. Nagle
Former Scientist ‘F’ (DRDO) – 33 Services Selection Board, SCC, Bhopal, India.

Gowtham Arumugam
Scientist ‘B’ (DRDO) – 33 Services Selection Board, SCC, Bhopal, India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2022.17.01.1