Adaptation of U. Pareek`s Personal Effectiveness Scale

This work is devoted to the adaptation of the English-language questionnaire for measuring the level of personal effectiveness of U. Pareek (Personal Effectiveness Scale by U. Pareek) on the russian sample. Little research has been done on the personal effectiveness in Russia, and mainly as a theoretical construct in methodological research, while empirical research lacks one important detail – a tool for measuring the level of personal effectiveness. In addition, the training market is overflowing with offers of psychological training to improve personal effectiveness, where a tool for measuring the "trained" characteristic would also be useful. One of the existing foreign methods for measuring personal effectiveness is the personal effectiveness scale by Udai Pareek, which was chosen for adaptation. The adaptation process was divided into several stages in accordance with the classical testing theory: translation of the questionnaire items into Russian, selection of the sample, measurement of the reliability, complexity and discriminativity coefficients, determination of the questionnaire validity, determination of the factor structure of the scale. The translated version of the scale did not show satisfactory psychometric results, and therefore it needs to be improved. Analysis of the factor structure of the adapted questionnaire "Personal Effectiveness Scale" by U. Pareek allows us to make an assumption about the need to rework some items and re-examine the sample, expanded in volume and structure.