Abstract
Breskin’s non-verbal scale of rigidity is based on gestalt principles of preferencies of different perceptive contents, resulting as a potential alternative to the existing, mainly indirect and verbal measures of this psychological construct. Since there are only a few data about psychometric characteristics of the scale, as well as the data about potential cross-cultural differences, the aim of this work was to test some psychometric features of Breskin’s scale of rigidity on the example of the Croatian examinees (reliability, sensitivity, validity). The scale was applied on the example of 348 examinees of both sexes, mostly at the age of 17 to 3O.The results showed single-factor structure of the scale, a relatively satisfying reliability of the internal consistency type and a considerably high retest reliability. The basic descriptive parameters and distribution of frequencies suggest the normal pattern and good scale discriminativeness. Factor of validity can also be considered satisfying, and some aspects of construct validity are evaluated through relations with theoretically relevant constructs (creativity, openness to experience, authoritarianism, and so-called normativistic orientation), indicate the existence of convergent validity.
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