The Rogers-Diamond methodology is a personality questionnaire aimed at identifying the personality characteristics of the person being tested and the degree of socio-psychological adaptation , often to a new environment, conditions and rules of behavior.
The questionnaire includes 101 impersonal statements, and the test person must express their agreement or disagreement with them in accordance with a 7-point response scale.
Content
The history of the development of the method
This questionnaire was developed by Karl Ransom Rogers , one of the creators and leaders of humanistic psychology and the founder of personality-oriented psychotherapy, and Rosalind E. Diamond in 1954 in the article “Psychotherapy and Personality Changes: Coordinated Studies of a Client-Centered Approach ” (Eng. “Psychotherapy and Personality Change: Coordinated Research Studies in the Client-Centered Approach "). [1] The description of the technique was first translated into Russian by the candidate. psychol. sciences T. V. Snegireva in 1987 [2] , and in 2004 the questionnaire was significantly modified by the candidate. psychol. sciences A.K. Osnitsky and published in the journal "Psychology and School" [3] . Since then, the methodology has received significant spread, becoming one of the most commonly used methods for diagnosing socio-psychological adaptation, in particular, for such test groups as students .
In the framework of Russian research, the Rogers-Diamond technique is mainly used to diagnose possible problems with the adaptation of freshmen to new conditions and rules of behavior.
The scale of the questionnaire showed high efficiency and differentiating ability in terms of diagnosing not only adaptation and maladaptation states, but also the peculiarities of self-image, their restructuring in critical age periods of development and in critical situations that prompt an individual to re-evaluate himself and his abilities.
Poll Description
The questionnaire contains 101 statements. 37 of them meet the criteria of personality adaptation, 37 - maladaptation, 26 - neutral. The statements of the latter category also include the so-called “scale of lies”. All statements are impersonal and all pronouns are set in 3 l., Units. h. The purpose of this is to ensure that the test person does not fall under the influence of “direct identification” and that the test person more objectively correlates the statement with his abilities, characteristics and psychological state. In addition, the test subject avoids the influence of “socially desirable responses”. The classical scale of answers includes 7 points, but some experts doubt this division, since the gradation of values is often not significant for the philistine consciousness. The authors identified 6 integral indicators that allow us to analyze the results of the survey:
- Adaptation;
- Acceptance of others;
- Internality (level of subjective control);
- Self-perception;
- Emotional comfort;
- The pursuit of dominance.
Each of these indicators is calculated according to an empirically derived formula. Interpretation of the survey results is carried out according to standards that differ depending on the age of the test person. Experiments using the technique are carried out in most cases from 12-13 years old, at an earlier age - only individually. [four]
Survey
The Rogers-Diamond questionnaire is a list of statements about the lifestyle, psychological state, behavior and life of a person, which the testee can correlate with his lifestyle. After reading the statement, the test person must determine the extent to which this statement fits his habits and lifestyle, and select a score from 0 to 6, where:
- 0 - statement does not match my lifestyle;
- 1 - this in most cases does not suit me;
- 2 - I doubt that this applies to me;
- 3 - I do not dare to attribute this to my lifestyle;
- 4 - it may be like me, but I'm not completely sure;
- 5 - it looks like me;
- 6 - this statement is fully consistent with my lifestyle.
The answer score is entered in the corresponding cell of the answer form.
Processing Results
| No. | Indicators | Speech Numbers | Norms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, 33, 35, 37, 41, 44, 47, 51, 53, 55, 61, 63, 67, 72, 74, 75, 78, 80, 88, 91, 94, 96, 97, 98 | ||||
| 2, 6, 7, 13, 16, 18, 25, 28, 32, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 56, 59, 60, 62, 64, 69, 71, 73, 76, 77, 83, 84, 86, 90, 95, 99, 100 | ||||
| but | 34, 45, 48, 81, 89 | |||
| b | 8, 82, 92, 101 | |||
| but | 33, 35, 55, 67, 72, 74, 75, 80, 88, 94, 96 | |||
| b | 7, 59, 62, 65, 90, 95, 99 | |||
| but | 9, 14, 22, 26, 53, 97 | |||
| b | 2, 10, 21, 28, 40, 60, 76 | |||
| but | 23, 29, 30, 41, 44, 47, 78 | |||
| b | 6, 42, 43, 49, 50, 83, 85 | |||
| but | 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 19, 27, 37, 51, 63, 68, 79, 91, 98 | |||
| b | 25, 36, 52, 57, 70, 71, 73, 77 | |||
| but | 58, 61, 66 | |||
| b | 16, 32, 38, 69, 84, 87 | |||
| 17, 18, 54, 64, 86 | ||||
Questions numbered 1, 3, 20, 24, 31, 39, 46, 93 are not used on any scale.
Integral Indicators
- Adaptation: ;
- Self Acceptance: ;
- Acceptance of others: ;
- Emotional comfort: ;
- Internality: ;
- The pursuit of dominance: .
Notes
- ↑ Rogers, Carl R., and Rosalind F. Dymond , eds. Psychotherapy and Personality Change: Coordinated Research Studies in the Client-Centered Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.
- ↑ Snegireva T.V. Methods of studying the characteristics of personal self-regulation // Diagnostic and correctional work of a school psychologist / Ed. I.V.Dubrovina. - M., collection of works of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, 1987.
- ↑ Osnitsky, A.K. Determination of the characteristics of social adaptation / A.K. Osnitsky // Psychology and school. - 2004. - No. 1.— P.43-56
- ↑ Raygorodsky, D. Ya. Practical Psychodiagnostics. Methods and tests. Textbook / D. Ya. Raigorodsky // Samara, publishing house BAHRAKH. - 1998 .-- 672 p.