MEASURING SELF ACTUALIZATION

• Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) - Test designed by E. L. Shostrom to measure Maslow’s concept of self-actualizing tendencies in people
• In the 1980s, Jones and Crandall (1986) developed the second measure of self-actualization, which borrowed 15 items from the POI. This inventory was dubbed the Short Index of Self Actualization (SISA) and was easier to administer than the POI
• In the 1990s, two additional measures of self-actualization were published: the Brief Index of SelfActualization (BISA) and the Measure of Actualization Potential (MAP).
• Recently, one new measure has been published, namely, the Characteristics of Self Actualization Scale (CSAS). A primary goal Kaufman had in making the newest self-actualization measure was to test and validate which of the 17 qualities of selfactualizing people that Maslow (1950) put forth hold up to empirical scrutiny.