Life Orientation Test
Sample items
- “In uncertain times, I usually expect the best.”
- “If something can go wrong for me, it will.”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Scheier and Carver
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“However, because the dimension correlated with economic growth, Geert considered it an essential addition for a global instrument. As persistence and thrift reflect an orientation toward the future, whereas personal stability and tradition can be seen as a static orientation…”
— Cultures and Organizationsmatch 54%
“The GLOBE dimension inspired by our LTO was called future orientation . Our old LTO measure, LTO-CVS, across twenty-one common countries correlated significantly with four of the eighteen GLOBE measures, but in the end only one (strong negative) relationship remained: with…”
— Cultures and Organizationsmatch 53%
“Our new measure of LTO correlates with the percentages of respondents who chose “very much like me” at r = −0.56*** (n = 37). Importance of perseverance is measured in the WVS as a desirable trait for children, just like “thrift” in our new LTO score. The item is coded as A039…”
— Cultures and Organizationsmatch 52%
Resources: Cultures and Organizations