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Sixty years of asking "Who am I?": Analysis of the Twenty Statements Test (TST)
Bojan Musil & Andrej Preglej
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Abstract: In 1954, Kuhn and McPartland set a simple question "Who am I?" in the context of the research of self and self-concept. In later years, the questionnaire become popular in psychological and sociological research, while in recent times it was widely used in the field of cross-cultural (psychological) studies. After 60 years, we have asked that question again in the context of analytic review of past research of this instrument. In the overall evaluation of the instrument, we try to answer the question whether the use of the question is still scientifically meaningful.
Keywords: Who am I?, Twenty Statements Test (TST), self-concept, self, questionnaire analysis
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Musil, B., & Preglej, A. (2015). Šestdeset let spraševanja "Kdo sem jaz?": Analiza vprašalnika Twenty Statements Test (TST) [Sixty years of asking "Who am I?": Analysis of the Twenty Statements Test (TST)]. Psihološka obzorja, 24, 66–73. https://doi.org/10.20419/2015.24.429
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