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The Sentence Completion Test: An Experiment and Evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

H. Halstead
H. Halstead*
Affiliation:
Uffculme Clinic, Birmingham
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The Sentence Completion Test is now a well-established technique. It is more than sixty years since Ebbinghaus (2) published the first completion test, which he used to assess mental abilities of schoolchildren in Breslau. But it was not until 1928 that the completion method was used for “personality” assessment, when a fifty-item test was used by Payne (11) as part of a guidance programme.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 443 , April 1960 , pp. 663 - 674
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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