Description:FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention is related to dimensions of personality. More particularly, but not specifically, the invention contains sixty (60) items for measuring the agreeableness and its various sub-characteristics such as trust, morality, modesty, altruism and sympathy etc. among adults/employees. .

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
According to Costa & Mc Crae, (1992) there are five basic dimensions of personality, referred as the "Big 5" personality traits.
In contemporary personality psychology, agreeableness is one of the five major dimensions of personality structure, reflecting individual differences in concern for cooperation and social harmony. Agreeableness is a tendency to be pleasant and accommodating in social situations. Agreeableness is considered to be a super-ordinate trait, grouping more specific personality traits that cluster together in situations that require getting along with others (Graziano, W.G., & Eisenberg, N., 1997). It is important to note that the personality factor of agreeableness represents a range between two extremes i.e. a continuum between extreme agreeableness to extreme disagreeableness. Nearly all the people lie somewhere in between these two polar ends of psychological dimension of agreeableness. Each of the Big Five personality traits is made up of some sub traits (Howard, P.J. & Howard, J. M., 1995). The sub traits of the agreeableness domain are: Trust, Morality, Altruism, Cooperation, Modesty, and Sympathy.
Trust: Trust is the relationship between people in which one individual/group is willing to rely, depend or believe on the words, actions and support of others (trustee); trust is the situation always directed towards the future.
Morality: The origin of word morality is from the Latin word "moralitas," which refers to character or proper behavior. This concept is related to the human behavior associated with "right and wrong," "good and evil." The concept of morality has common characteristics with ethics, principles, virtue, and goodness. Morality is simply a confirmation to the rules and beliefs of a community which are considered absolute guides for human behavior. It is the quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct or a system of ideas that fall into those same categories.
Altruism: Altruism is selfless concern for others; it is helping behavior that is motivated by a selfless concern for the welfare of another person. It is the act of helping others without the thought of reward, it demonstrates a lack of thought for oneself while someone is considering the situation of others and striving to improve it.
Co-operation: Co-operation is the association of two or more than two individuals/groups for their benefit as voluntary arrangement in which individuals/groups engage in a mutually beneficial exchange instead of competing. Co-operation can happen where resources are adequate for all the involved individuals/groups.
Modesty: Modesty is a behavioral characteristic of humbleness, propriety, politeness, decorum, good manners, correctness and decency in interaction, conduct, actions, dress, language, and conduct. Modesty is expressed in psycho-social and cultural interaction by presenting in a way exhibiting humility, shyness, or simplicity.
Sympathy: Sympathy is a humanitarian characteristic of compassion, kindness and concern expressed by an individual towards other(s) by taking complete stock of feelings. Although empathy and sympathy are often used interchangeably but empathy is to respond to another's perceived emotional state by experiencing feelings of a similar sort.
Sympathy includes empathy as well as a positive regard or a non- fleeting concern for the other person.
The Agreeableness measuring scale purports to measure the extent of agreeableness which adults/employees exhibit and express during various interactions and situations of their personal and work life. However researchers have developed number of scales which can measure the degree of agreeableness among people, but this tool may conveniently measure the degree of agreeableness as well as most of its major sub-traits of employees. Moreover this test can be specially administered to the employees of all level, working in various types of organizations. This scale will prove more suitable for the employees of supervisory level and above.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCALE
Age Group
As already mentioned in the introduction, the trait of agreeableness is a combination of six other sub-traits, so AMS is designed to test all these six sub-
traits of agreeableness. A representative sample of 436 employees of different cadres working in various banking and insurance companies in the age range of 15 to 50 years and who studied at metric, 10+2, under graduate and post graduate level.
Selection of the items
To finalize the AMS, two trial researches were conducted.
First Draft: While developing the first trial draft of this test, a set of 16 items were included for each sub-trait to scale the related feature of individual's personality. These sets of 16 items each were consist of equal number of positive and negative items for the different dimensions of agreeableness such as trust, morality, altruism, cooperation, modesty and sympathy etc.
First Trial Test: First trial research was conducted on a sample of 160 bank employees of Nationalized and Private sector banks to standardize and improve it for: The language of the items i.e. whether the items give the same meaning (for what they were included in the test) to the responders or not. Checking whether the responders understand and follow the instructions of the test or not. Checking whether the items are appealing to the responders or not with reference to their purpose.
The result of the first trial test concluded that 18 items were not
satisfactory at all, so such items were eliminated and language of number of other items were corrected and improved to finalize 78 items for the draft to be used for second trial test.
Second trial test: Second draft of the AMS was consisting of 78 items. This test draft was administered to a sample of 276 employees (male and female both) of the insurance companies. For standardization and improvement of the scale, similar procedure was adopted as used for the first trial. After second trial also some of the items were found unsatisfactory so, eliminated from the final draft. On the basis of criterion adopted to finalize the test 60 items were selected after thorough checking and improvement for the language and semantic characteristics. To make the scale exact and standard for measuring the trait of agreeableness and its sub-traits such as trust, morality, altruism, cooperation, modesty and sympathy etc. all necessary measures were taken.
Final Draft: Final draft of the AMS contains total 60 items for measuring the personality trait of agreeableness and its sub-traits. Each sub-trait includes total 10 items and these items were equally divided as positive and negative items for measuring the sub-traits of agreeableness.
Procedure
This scale contains sixty (60) items for measuring the agreeableness and its various sub-characteristics such as trust, morality, modesty, altruism and sympathy etc. among adults/employees. The participants were asked to respond for all the sixty (60) items. There is no time limit to respond all the items. AMS should be taken back from the respondent only when all items have been responded. While conducting this test, it is experienced that respondents generally ask two questions. First, for what purpose respondents have been asked to attempt AMS. Second, respondents enquire about the result of AMS. To reply the first question researcher/representative should inform the subjects that the purpose of this tool is to measure the characteristic of agreeableness and in reply to the second question respondents should be told that the result will be reported in the form of comprehensive research findings.
Administration & Scoring
AMS may be administered individually as well as in group. It should be responded by obeying the standard instructions given on the front page of the scale. The respondents should fill up their personal particulars printed on the front page of test then they can attempt the test. The investigator should explain the mode of recording the choices on AMS and permit the subjects to record their responses. Researcher should invigilate respondents while they are marking their choices on the AMS as they could not consult with co- subjects. AMS consists of 60 items with 30 positive and 30 negative items, and each sub-trait includes 10 items. Each item ranked on the five point Likert scale on five categories, i.e. Strongly Agree(5), Agree(4), Can't Say(3), Disagree(2), Strongly Disagree(1) and for negative items it is Strongly Agree(1), Agree(2), Can't Say(3), Disagree(4), Strongly Disagree(5). The statements include almost all relevant components of personality trait of agreeableness such as, trust, morality, altruism, cooperation, modesty and sympathy etc. (table 1) shows the account of items constituting various sub-traits of Agreeableness.
Table1
Sub Scales (Agreeableness)
Serial number of the statements in the schedule
Trust
1*,2*,3,4,5*,6*,7*,8,9,10

Morality
11,12*,13,14*,15*,16*,17,18,19*,20
Altruism
21,22*,23,24,25*,26,27*,28,29*,30*
Cooperation
31*,32*,33,34*,35,36,37,38*,39,40*
Modesty
41,42,43,44*,45*,46*,47,48*,49,50*
Sympathy
51,52*,53*,54,55*,56*,57,58*,59,60

PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE SCALE
Reliability
Reliability is the extent to which a test is repeatable and yields consistent scores. There are two basic concerns with respect to reliability, consistency of the items within a measure and stability of measure by using slightly different techniques and methods. Internal consistency is concerned with the homogeneity of the items within the scale which is typically ascertained by Cronbach's (1951) coefficient alpha which was found to be 0.82 for the scale. The reliability indices of the 6 sub-scales were also computed on the relationship between half of the items with the other half of the items known as split half method. The reliability index measures the dependability of test scores by showing an agreement with their theoretical true values. The index of reliability gives the maximum correlation which the given test is capable of obtaining in its present form, shown in the following (table 2).
Table 2: Table For Index of Reliability
Sr. No.
Sub Scales (Agreeableness) Reliability Index
1.
Trust
0.76

2
Morality 0.82
3
Altruism 0.72
4
Cooperation 0.89
5
Modesty 0.71
6
Sympathy 0.91

Validity
Validity is the ability of an aptitude/psychological test to measure the degree of personality dimension for what it claims to measure/designed. Validity demonstrates the relationship between the test and the psychological trait/ dimension for which it is intended and designed to measure. Agreeableness is a combination of six other sub-traits (Jensen-Campbell, L. A., & Graziano, W. G. , 2001); hence the evidence of validity of AMS depends upon the validity of its constituent sub-traits such as trust, morality, altruism, cooperation, modesty and sympathy etc. The validity of AMS was determined by computing coefficients of correlation between the scales on the agreeableness and the various measures of agreeableness and its constituent sub-traits. The adults/employee's score on the AMS is likely to positively correlate with the scores on the measures of such personality variables. The validity of a measure is examined in a number of ways: viz face validity, content validity, predictive validity, concurrent validity and construct validity. AMS has a face validity, as all items of scale were related to agreeableness and a high content validity. In order to find out validity from coefficient of reliability (Garrett, 1981), the reliability index was computed, shown as above in (table 2).
Norms
A test is considered meaningful when the data is analyzed with reference to norms. Norms have been prepared for the whole AMS, as well as for its six sub- scales separately on a representative sample of 436 employees of different cadres working in various banking and insurance companies. The distribution of scores on the AMS was found to be slightly skewed in negative direction. To prepare the norms two methods were adopted. i.e., normal distribution and percentile point. The scores were divided into three categories; i.e. high, moderate and low, following the principles of normal distribution. The scores falling above ± 1?, between ± 1? and below ±1? were categorized as to indicate high, moderate and low levels of agreeableness respectively. On the basis of its percentile values also the scores have been categorized as to indicate high, moderate and low levels of agreeableness. The scores below p25, between p26 and p75 and above p75 were taken as to indicate low, moderate and high levels of agreeableness respectively (table 3).
Table 3: Norms Table for Agreeableness Measuring Scale and its Sub- Traits

Traits and Sub-traits Agreeableness Trust Morality Altruism Cooperation Modesty Sympathy
Mean
3.30
2.7833 3.35
3.372
3.412
3.487
3.397

SD
1.084465 1.0966 1.1293 1.069855 1.077794 1.06468 1.068507
High
60-140 10-23 10-23 10-23 10-23 10-23 10-23
Moderate
141-220 24-37 24-37 24-37 24-37 24-37 24-37
Low
221-300 38-50 38-50 38-50 38-50 38-50 38-50
Statements 1to 60 1 to-10 11 to-20 21 to-30 31 to-40 41 to-50 51 to60
Total
Statements 60* 10** 10** 10** 10** 10** 10**

Claims:Agreeableness Measuring Scale five traits are usually described comprising of;
A. Extraversion: This trait includes characteristics such as excitability, sociability, talkativeness, assertiveness and high degree of emotional expressiveness.
B. Agreeableness: This personality dimension includes attributes such as trust, altruism, kindness, affection, and other pro-social behaviors.
C. Conscientiousness: Common features of this dimension include high levels of thoughtfulness, with good impulse control and goal- directed behaviors. Those high in conscientiousness tend to be organized and mindful of details.
D. Neuroticism: Individuals high in this trait tend to experience emotional instability, anxiety, moodiness, irritability and sadness.
E. Openness: This trait exhibits characteristics such as imagination and insight, and those high in this trait also tend to have a broad range of interests.