According to the Twenty Statements Test conducted by Cousins (1989), the _____ respondents may have felt awkward providing self-descriptions because their self-definitions typically are not qualified by specific situations.
The Twenty Statements Test (TST) is a tool that is widely used in cross-cultural psychology to measure self concept through free-format responses. It was devised by Thomas McPartland and Manfred Kuhn in 1954 and in 1989 it was conducted by Cousins. The purpose of the test is to measure assumptions and self-attitudes.
