ABSTRACT
The Miner Sentence Completion Scales (MSCSs) were developed on a conceptual basis, not using factor analysis to specify their constructs. This was an intentional strategy, and it assumes that factor pure constructs are not a requirement for reliability and validity; the Wechsler instruments are offered as a case in point (Miner 1993). Yet there remains a question as to how the MSCS measures would fare at the hands of factor analysis-not because such an approach is required to create effective instruments or to aid in the development of tests with appropriate item structures, but to see how closely the MSCS instruments do in fact, given their conceptual origins, conform to the dictates of factor analysis. To what extent has a meeting of the minds actually occurred here, in spite of the wide diversity in origins?
