The Loyola Seminarian Sentence Completion Test.

Abstract

Summary The study attempted to create a scoring system for the Loyola Seminarian Sentence Completion Test (LSSCT) that would detect seminarians in need of counseling. Substantial concurrent validity and interscorer and test-retest reliability coefficients were obtained. An attempt to use the scoring system to predict perseverance in the seminary was generally unsuccessful. Subtests were established to measure six variables: attitudes toward self, priesthood, family, women, others, and important issues. Significant concurrent validity coefficients were established for each attitude category and inter-subtest correlations were low to moderate. The test shows promise as an instrument to screen seminarians in need of counseling and to point out specific areas of conflict for those students.