ACL
Generalities
The Adjective Check List (ACL) was first created at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, now known as the Institute of Personality and Social Research (IPSR) in Berkeley, to assist staff members in describing the personalities of individuals examined in assessment programs. The ACL comprises of 112 items.
A study conducted by John (1990) involved a sample of 140 men and 140 women who had participated in groups of 10 to 15 in one of the IPSR assessment weekends. Each subject was described on the ACL by 10 staff members. A factor analysis was then performed using these aggregated observer judgments.
References
See the ACL’s publisher here: www.mindgarden.com
See here on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective_Check_List
Gough, H. G., & Heilbrun, A. B., Jr. (1983). The Adjective Check List manual. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
John, O. P. (1990). The "Big Five" factor taxonomy: Dimensions of personality in the natural language and questionnaires. In L. A. Pervin (Ed.) Handbook of personality: Theory and research (pp. 66-100) New York: Guilford Press.
Murray, H.A. (1938). Explorations in Personality. New York: Oxford University Press.
Berne, E. (1961). Transactional analysis in psychotherapy. New York: Grove Press.
Welsh, G. S. (1975). Creativity and intelligence: A personality approach. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina.
Welsh, G. S. (1977). Personality correlates of intelligence and creativity in gifted adolescents. In J.C. Stanley, W.C. George, & C.H. Solano (Eds.), The gifted and the creative: A fifty-year perspective. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.