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The present article describes and applies a new psychometric approach for establishing and optimizing multi-faceted measurement instruments. For the reason that scale development goes hand-in-hand with the development of construct representations (e.g. structural models), in addition, it has implications for the latter. The method is intended to supplement the contemporary theoretical and empirical approaches to scale building, by targeting `problem' facets detrimental to construct validity. It thereby aims to minimize the plethora of facets through which constructs are generally represented. The basic principle on the strategy is usually to recognize difficulty facets based on their inabilityCorrespondence to: A. B. Siegling, London Psychometric Laboratory, University College London, WC1H 0AP, UK. E-mail: alexander.siegling.11@ucl.ac.uk 2014 The Authors. European Journal of Personality publishedto occupy a one of a kind component from the target construct's variance. It utilizes an option representation on the construct to assess regardless of whether a measure's facets fulfil this basic criterion. Prior to describing the method in detail, it can be necessary to specify its special concentrate and explain how it supplements current test building solutions. We then proceed having a short assessment of the construct of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI), on which the system will be applied in the present Uidity, and stability [73. Naturally, also the charge {of the|from the] investigation. Equivalent to definitions generally utilised in the literature (Costa McCrae, 1995; Smith, Fischer, Fister, 2003), we use the term facet to refer to a variable representing a narrow and hugely homogenous subset of affective, behavioural, or cognitive tendencies related having a offered construct. Facets are interrelated and define the hypothetical domain of a construct; their popular variance is conceptualized as representing the construct of interest. We make use of the term factor to designate a variable that subsumes the widespread, construct-related variance of several facets. Things deliver a mid-level between facets as well as the latent construct, serving to organize the facets into subcategories and delivering the basis for subscales.Rationale and focus: Redundant and extraneous facets The psychometric literatures of various constructs suggest that the modern scale-construction approaches.F Personality published by John Wiley Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Personality Psychology. Essential words: scale construction and development; facets; psychometrics; assessment; trait emotional self-efficacy; TEIQueExamining the literature of an individual-differences construct, a single usually finds a diversity of measures, with an overall abundance of facets. Even individual measures composed of a fairly big number of facets are rather popular. In some situations, the arrays of facets utilised to represent the exact same construct diverge significantly (in quantity and/or types), and correlations between their composites are weak or moderate (e.g. Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer, Toney, 2006; Brackett Mayer, 2003). It's then difficult to accept that all measures reflect the identical underlying attribute to a related degree. This rather messy state reflects the lack of sufficient criteria for defining psychological constructs, which are only indirectly inferable and measurable (Cronbach Meehl, 1955). Thus, researchers have noted that there is considerable uncertainty in figuring out the set of facets and models from which the composite representative of the targeted attribute can be derived (e.g. Petrides Furnham, 2001). The present write-up describes and applies a new psychometric method for creating and optimizing multi-faceted measurement instruments.