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.

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.