Preliminary Development Of Healthy Personality Scale Of College Students

The purpose of the research is to develop the"Healthy Personality scale of College Students", which can enrich the study on the measurement of healthy personality especially for academician.First, by looking into the former study on this subject, the model of healthy personality of college students had been developed.Second, 30 college students coming from 6 different universities in Shijiazhuang was interviewed. The interview was semi-structured. The outline of the interview was based on the model which developed from the former research of healthy personality. And some alterations was made on the model which was based on the outcome of the interviews.The third, the preliminary scale was developed. The questions came from the former personality questionnaires, and the original description of the interviews.The fourth, the teachers and graduated students majored psychology were asked to make appraisals of the scale. And then, the scale was revised by the appraisals they made.The fifth, 1440 scales was distributed at Hebei Normal University, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Hebei Medical University and Hebei University of Science and Technology. The distribution is under the rule of stratified random sampling. The students came from 9 different majors, such as liberal arts, science, fine art, physical education, economics and engineering.The sixth, based on the item analysis and the exploratory analysis, the formal scale was made out after modification.At last, by confirmatory analysis, the effect of the common factors on the scale and the relations among the factors was discussed. We did the empirical research at the same time. The first draft of the scale contains 109 questions (includes 2 reduplicate questions). The formal scale contains 64 questions (includes 1 reduplicate question). There are 9 factors in the scale, such as flexible, empathy, extraversion , positivity, emotion control, optimistic, stability, sense of worth, acceptance by others and self-acceptance.The outcome of reliability analysis and validity analysis is good. And the outcome of the confirmatory analysis indicates that the model fits the data well.Because the research just developed the preliminary scale. The further study seems necessary. First, the formal scale includes 9 factors. But the number of questions of every factor is not close to each other. The questions should be added in order to make the amount of questions of every factors close to each other. After that, the test will be start again. Second, the scales were only distributed round the college students in Shijiazhuang. So the outcome of the research couldn't be generalized. The scales should be distributed at other regions in the further research, in order to modify the scale.