Now add together all the orange-colored numbers from the last
column and enter the total in the orange space at the bottom of page 73.
Do the same for the green, yellow, red, and blue responses, entering the
totals in the color-coded spaces. These are your Role Identity Difference
Scores.
To interpret the meaning of your scores, refer to the
Interpretation Guide on page 74. Look for your General Self Image
(G.S.I.) Score for each style across the left side of each chart. If your
G.S.I. score is between 7-14, refer to the bottom chart; between 15-27,
refer to the middle chart; between 28-35, refer to the top chart. Then
find your corresponding Role Identity Difference Score (0-10 top row;
11-28 bottom row) and read across the chart to the right unfit you find
the appropriate color-coded box for that particular dimension--orange for
Expressive Style, green for Interpersonal Style, yellow for Work Style,
red for Emotional Style, and blue for Intellectual Style.
Optional Scoring and Interpretation
As an optional means of scoring and interpreting the results of
your personality profile, you may also add together the separate Role
Identity Difference Scores you computed for each of the Big Five
dimensions to determine your Total Role Identity Difference Score. Your
total score will fall somewhere between 0 and 140.
Recent research conducted by Eileen Donahue, Richard Robins, Brent
Roberts, and Oliver P. John at the University of California at Berkeley
suggests that many people with high Total Role Identity Difference Scores
(about 70 or above) often feel somewhat anxious or depressed. Such people
also often report that their current relationships are likewise
unsatisfying or problematic. However, these researchers also emphasize
that having a high role identity difference score is not a sign of
personal and/or interpersonal problems unless the differences you see in
yourself make you feel uncomfortable. What is most important is that you
feel satisfied with your particular style of adapting to your own social
roles.
In general, the role identities with which people are most
satisfied are those most similar to their General Self Image. Therefore,
if you have a high Total Role Identity Difference Score, you may find it
useful to review the scores you gave yourself for each of your role
identities on Scorecards #2-#S. If the score you gave yourself for a
single role is very different form your General Self Rating on Scorecard
#1, this could be a sign that you are simply not satisfied with that
particular role.
Hotline Prep Box
By calling 1-900-288-3883, you can receive more detailed analysis
of your individual results. The cost for this call is 95 cents per
minute. For those under 18 parental permission is required. The Hotline
is sponsored by Psychology Today, NY, NY.
Reading this prep box before you call will facilitate the process
and get you on your personal information quicker and easier.
From any phone (for those without a touch-tone touch phone, a
voice-activation option is available). You will be asked to enter the
style for which you want more information: 1) expressive, 2)
interpersonal, 3) work, 4) emotional, or 5) intellectual. Of course, you
will be given the option at the end of each analysis to find out about
more than one specific style. You may choose any combination of styles,
up to all five, to receive more information about your Role Identity
Differences Scores as they relate to your General Self-Image. To prepare
for your call, open the test to page 72 and refer to the color-coded
chart beneath Scorecard #1 when you asked to plug in your General
Self-Image Scores. When you are asked to plug in your Role Identity
Difference Scores, refer to the chart at the bottom right of page 73. You
will hear a confirmation that what you've plugged in is correct, to avoid
mistakes.
BY EILEEN DONAHUE, PH.D., AND KEITH HARARY, PH.D.
HOW TO TAKE THE TEST
Begin by marking you responses to the 35 statements on Scorecard
#1, rating as honestly as possible the extent to which you agree or
disagree with each statement as a description of how you see your
personality in a general sense. Ine each, marking the number in the far
left-hand column would mean that you strongly disagree with the
particular statement; marking the number in the far-right-hand column
would mean that you strongly agree. You may, of course, mark any number
in between those two poles, indicating varying degrees of agreement or
disagreement. Mark only one number per item on the socrecard.
(If you participated in Part One of the test and saved your
results, you may skip this card and simply copy your Inner-Self
Scores--found in the top row of the top chart of Part One's Scoring
Guide--into the color-coded boxes at the bottom of page 72.)
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