Background for and development of a brief Adult Behavioral Classification Project Inventory.

Abstract

An abridgement of the Adult Behavioral Classification Project Inventory (AdBCP) was accomplished. The creation and development of the full-scale Inventory is described in Phase I. In Phase II, the participant pool was divided into half, and each half of the data set was subjected to both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses with a factor control of 11 of the strongest factors in the original data set. Items identifying these factors had to have at least magnitude of .35 factor structure weights, leaving a 42-item instrument, the Brief AdBCP Inventory. Predicting from the first half to the second half by confirmatory factor analysis resulted in a fair confirmation of the factor structure. A rough norm table is offered based on the factor scores of the first half of the participants' records.