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Construction of a questionnaire to measure the personality characteristic openness to experience, in relation to the job of a probation officer. Abstract Questionnaire constructed to measure the personality characteristic openness, as defined by Costa & McCrae (1977), to aid an occupational psychologist screening applicants for the job of a Probation Officer. Questionnaire consisted of 30 statements, with responses indicted on a 5 point likert scale. 50 Participants selected using an opportunity sample from the University of Teesside. 15 of the 50 were re-tested, and completed Goldberg's (1990) openness questionnaire. Reliability was tested for, using Cronbach's Alpha, giving a value of 0.8212 for the final scale at the 0.8 level. The test-retest reliability correlation coefficient was 0.93, and the concurrent validity was not significant at the 0.75 level, with a value of 0.541. The factor analysis suggested that the questionnaire had one underlying factor, which was interpreted as 'Openness'. Introduction The job that has...

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