Sentence completion tests consist of item stems that people complete to reflect their personality. How they complete the sentences can provide clues about underlying attitudes, affects, and concerns. Sentence completion tests have been constructed for personality assessment, clinical applications, and measuring constructs like egocentricity, moral attitudes, and depression. They can assess psychological characteristics and contribute to assessing personality as well as intellectual functioning.

2. SENTENCE
COMPLETION
TEST

3. Consists of words or phrases, usually
referred to as item stems, that people are asked
to complete a sentence.
How individuals go about this task tends to
reflect the kind of person they are.
Sentence Completion Test Method

4. Performance
BasedSelf Report
Self Descriptions
Sentence Completion Test Method
Often provide indirect or direct clues to
their underlying attitudes, affects and concerns.

5. Sentence Completion Test Method
Some Sentence Completion Test have been
constructed with standard sets of items for use in
general personality assessment/analysis clinical
application, attitude assessment, achhievement
motivation and measurement of other construct..Example:
Egocentricity
Moral Attitudes
Marital Satisfaction
Depression

6. Sentence Completion Test Method
Is used to:
Assess psychological characteristics
Construct formal measures of
intelligence By: Herman Ebbinghaus, 1987

7. Could contribute to assessing personality
characteristics as well as intellectual
functioning originated with some observations.
(Carl Jung, 1916)
“Say the first word that comes to your mind.”
Sentence Completion Test Method

8. Three types of Data:
Structural - consist of such objective response
characteristic,
Behavioral– manner in which people work
on the sentence completion task,
Thematic – provides a rich array of clues to their
underlying feelings and attitudes and concern.
(e.g.: total time required to complete the te
(e.g.: careful or careless)
Sentence Completion Test Method

9. Can be phrased to evoke persons attitude
towards specific individual.
Example: Mother __________
Perspective on particular events and
circumstances in their lives.
Example: In school __________
Sentence Completion Test Method

10. Example:

11. Sack’s Sentence Completion Test
Is a 60-item test that asks respondents to
complete 60 questions with the first thing that
comes to mind across four areas: Family, Sex,
Interpersonal Relationship and Self-
concept.

12. Sack’s Sentence Completion Test
Interpretation
Guide:2 - SEVERELY DISTURBED. Appears to require
conflicts in this area.
1 - MIDLY DISTURBED. Has emotional conflict in
this area but appears able to handle them without
therapeutic aid.
0 - NO SIGNIFICANT disturbance rated in this area.
X - UNKNOWN, Insufficient evidence

13. Sack’s Sentence Completion Test
Attitude towards Own Ability (2, 7, 32 and
47)
2 = feels completely incomplete and hopeless
1 = feels he has a specific ability but tends to
fear difficulty
0 = confident on his ability to overcome
Interpretation
Guide: