History
Herman Ebbinghaus is generally credited with developing the first sentence completion test in 1897. Ebbinghaus’s sentence completion test was used as part of an intelligence test.
Carl Jung’s word association test may also have been a precursor to modern sentence completion tests.
In recent decades, sentence completion tests have increased in usage, in part because they are easy to develop and easy to administer. As of the 1980s, sentence completion tests were the seventh most widely used personality assessment instruments.
Another reason for the increased usage of sentence completion tests is because of their superiority to other measures in uncovering conflicted attitudes.
Some sentence completion tests were developed as a way to overcome the problems associated with thematic apperception measures of the same constructs.
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