1-4 The assessment of subjective self, ideal self, and projective self of medical college students: An application of Q-sort
A Q-sort technique was administered to assess the self concept of 419 students in a medical college.
The results indicated that, in choosing and sorting 15 personality trauts, college students tended to describe themselves more as frank, humorous-optimistic, diligent, and open-hearted than as persuasive, learned, emotionally atable, and agile. In describing their ideal self, students wanted more to be learned, intelligent-competent, healthly, humorous-optimistic, and popular than to be agile, enthusiastic, and handsome. In describing the self which they feel they project to others, students tended to figure that others see them more as humorous-optimistic, frank, popular, healthy, and enthusiastic than as persuasive, agile, and emotionally stable.
Among the three levels of self concept, the subjective self and the projective self were similar to each other but were actuallt quite different from the ideal self. The main source of difference between the subjevtive self and the ideal self came from the sorting of the qualities of learnedness, persuasiveness, diligence, and emotion stability. The Q-distributions of male and female students were quite simliar to each other. It also made little difference whether the first five cards or the first card was chosen for analysis.
The relation between scores of the Q-sort and the Guilford Personality Inventory demonstrated the concurrent validity of the Q-sort technique. For example: the weighted score of emotional stability from the Q-sort was significantly negatively correlated with the scales of depression, cyclic tendency, feelings of inferiority, and nervousness found in the inventory. The validity of the total self concept index and self acceptance index I were also supported but this was not the case for indexes II and III. The special characteristics of the Q-sort technique and its utility in the field of counseling and guidance were also examind
Keywords
Q-sort, ideal self, projective self, self-acceptance, self concept, subjective self
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