A Review of the Personal Orientation Dimensions Inventory

Abstract

The Personal Orientation Dimensions Inventory is considered to be an extension and refinement of the concepts measured by the Personal Orientation Inventory. Changes include the elimination of item overlap, an increase in the number of scales and items in the inventory as well as a new theoretical perspective. Significant difficulties still appear to exist in the areas of test construction, theoretical justification, and interpretation. Moreover, the new inventory creates new problems concerning cost for scoring, failure to generate significant amounts of research, as well as a potential loss of relatedness to old research.