CSIV

Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values

Thank you for your interest in the Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values (CSIV). The CSIV is a self-report inventory designed to complement interpersonal circumplex measures that assess interpersonal behavior by efficiently assessing a comprehensive set of agentic and communal values. The eight 8-item scales of the CSIV exhibit a circumplex structure, adequate internal and test-retest reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity with measures of interpersonal traits, interpersonal problems, and implicit interpersonal motives. The development and psychometrics of the CSIV are detailed in:

Locke, K.D. (2000). Circumplex scales of interpersonal values: Reliability, validity, and applicability to interpersonal problems and personality disorders. Journal of Personality Assessment, 75, 249-267.

You are free to administer the CSIV as you wish, but I hope you will make an effort to give me feedback about what you find to be the strengths and weaknesses of the measure.

You can take the CSIV on-line by clicking on the "Take the CSIV" button to the left.

The following are examples of papers in which I have used the CSIV:

· Locke, K.D., & Christensen, L. (2007). Re-Construing the relational self-construal and its relationship with self-consistency. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 389-402.

· Locke, K.D. & Sadler, P. (2007). Self-efficacy, values, and complementarity in dyadic interactions: Integrating interpersonal and social-cognitive theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 94-109.

· Locke, K.D. (2003). Status and solidarity in social comparison: agentic and communal values and vertical and horizontal directions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 619-631.