Thank you for your interest in the Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values (CSIV). The CSIV is a 64-item self-report inventory designed to complement interpersonal circumplex measures that assess interpersonal behavior by efficiently assessing a comprehensive set of agentic and communal values. The eight 8-item scales of the CSIV exhibit a circumplex structure, adequate internal and test-retest reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity with measures of interpersonal traits, interpersonal problems, and implicit interpersonal motives. You are free to administer the CSIV as you wish (you can obtain the Form and Scoring by clicking tabs to the left). Information about the 32-item short-form version is available via a link in the lefthand side-bar. If you have questions, please email me at klocke@uidaho.edu.

The development and psychometrics of the CSIV are detailed in: 

Locke, K.D. (2000). Circumplex scales of interpersonal values: Reliability, validity, and applicability to interpersonal problems and personality disorders. Journal of Personality Assessment, 75, 249-267. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327752JPA7502_6

Examples of papers which have used the CSIV include:

• Cain, N. M., De Panfilis, C., Meehan, K. B., & Clarkin, J. F. (2017). A multisurface interpersonal circumplex assessment of rejection sensitivity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99, 35-45.

• Carlson, S. E., Smith, T. W., Parkhurst, K. A., Tinajero, R., Grove, J. L., Goans, C., Hirai, M. & Ruiz, J. M. (2022). Moving Toward, Moving Against, and Moving Away: An Interpersonal Approach to Construct Validation of the Horney–Coolidge Type Inventory. Journal of Personality Assessment, 104(5), 650-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2021.1991358.

• Deits-Lebehn, C., Smith, T. W., Grove, J. L., Williams, P. G., & Uchino, B. N. (2022). Interpersonal style contributes to the association of dispositional mindfulness with social functioning. Mindfulness, 13, 373-384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01798-z.

• Dowgwillo, E. A., & Pincus, A. L. (2017). Differentiating dark triad traits within and across interpersonal circumplex surfaces. Assessment, 24, 24-44.

• Du, T. V., Thomas, K. M., Miller, J. D., & Lynam, D. R. (2022). Differentiations in interpersonal functioning across Narcissism dimensions. Journal of Personality Disorders, 36, 455-475.

• Grove, J. L., Smith, T. W., Girard, J. M., & Wright, A. G. (2019). Narcissistic admiration and rivalry: An interpersonal approach to construct validation. Journal of Personality Disorders, 33, 751-775.

• Jordan, K. D., Masters, K. S., Hooker, S. A., Ruiz, J. M., & Smith, T. W. (2014). An interpersonal approach to religiousness and spirituality: Implications for health and well‐being. Journal of Personality, 82, 418-431.

• Jordan, K. D., Williams, P. G., & Smith, T. W. (2015). Interpersonal distinctions among hypochondriacal trait components: Styles, goals, vulnerabilities, and perceptions of health care providers. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 34(6), 459. 

• Hopwood, C. J., Ansell, E. B., Pincus, A. L., Wright, A.G.C., Lukowitsky, M. R., & Roche, M. J. (2011). The circumplex structure of interpersonal sensitivities. Journal of Personality, 79, 707-740. 

• Hopwood, C. H., Stahlmann, A. G., & Bleidorn, W. (2022). Personality and compassion for animals, Anthrozoös, 36, 69-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2022.2084996

• Locke, K.D. (2003). Status and solidarity in social comparison: agentic and communal values and vertical and horizontal directions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 619-631.

• Locke, K.D., & Christensen, L. (2007). Re-Construing the relational self-construal and its relationship with self-consistency. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 389-402.

• Locke, K.D. & Sadler, P. (2007). Self-efficacy, values, and complementarity in dyadic interactions: Integrating interpersonal and social-cognitive theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 94-109.

• Locke, K. D., Sayegh, L., Weber, C., & Turecki, G. (2018). Interpersonal self-efficacy, goals, and problems of persistently depressed outpatients: Prototypical circumplex profiles and distinctive subgroups. Assessment, 25, 988-1000. doi:10.1177/1073191116672330

• Locke, K.D., Sayegh, L., Penberthy, J. K., Weber, C., Haentjens, K., & Turecki, G. (2017). Interpersonal circumplex profiles of persistent depression: Goals, self-efficacy, problems, and effects of group therapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 73, 595-611. doi:10.1002/jclp.22343

• Rek, I., & Dinger, U. (2016). Who sits behind the telephone? Interpersonal characteristics of volunteer counselors in telephone emergency services. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 63, 429-442.

• Rek, I., Ehrenthal, J. C., Strauss, B. M., Schauenburg, H., Nikendei, C., & Dinger, U. (2018). Attachment styles and interpersonal motives of psychotherapy trainees. Psychotherapy, 55, 209-215. doi:10.1037/pst000015

• Richardson, K., Hart, W., Breeden, C. J., Tortoriello, G. K., & Kinrade, C. (2020). Validating Circumplex Scales of Perceived Impairments and Benefits from prototypically problematic interpersonal tendencies. Psychological Assessment, 32, 415-430.

• Roche, M. J., Jacobson, N. C., & Phillips, J. J. (2018). Expanding the validity of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale Observer Report and Self- Report versions across psychodynamic and interpersonal paradigms. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100, 571-580. doi:10.1080/00223891.2018.1475394

• Turan, B., Guo, J., Boggiano, M. M., & Bedgood, D. (2014). Dominant, cold, avoidant, and lonely: Basal testosterone as a biological marker for an interpersonal style. Journal of Research in Personality, 50, 84-89.

• Turan, B., & Horowitz, L. M. (2010). The motive for support and the identification of responsive partners. Journal of Research in Personality, 44(3), 342-352.

• Wright, A. G., Pincus, A. L., Conroy, D. E., & Elliot, A. J. (2009). The pathoplastic relationship between interpersonal problems and fear of failure. Journal of Personality, 77(4), 997-1024.