personality
With four, seven-point items, the scale measures one’s motivation to increase his/her knowledge and the willingness to change how the “world” is understood.
Six, seven-point Likert-type items measure a person’s ability to sustain effort despite hardships and setbacks.
With six, seven-point Likert-type items the scale measures a person’s ability to recover from stressful events that are experienced.
How much one wants to be in control of his/her life, most particularly his/her job, is measured with three, seven-point Likert-type items.
The degree to which a person has positive expectations about his/her future is measured with six, seven-point Likert-type items.
Using six items, this scale not only measures how strongly a person identifies with a particular gender but how important that identity is to his/her self-image.
With four, seven-point Likert-type items, the scale measures whether a person has a habitual mental attitude in which self-distinctiveness is emphasized or, at the other extreme, an integration mindset in which assimilation and cooperation are emphasized.
Six, seven-point Likert-type items are used to measure one’s self-efficacy with regard to accomplishing goals in life despite obstacles.
Four, seven-point uni-polar items are used to measure how much a person is described as being kind and friendly. (Two versions of the scale are described, both having four items and three of them being in common.)
A person’s chronic motivation to critically evaluate alternatives in order to improve the quality of decisions that are made is measured with twelve, six-point Likert-type items.