32-Item Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values (CSIV-32)

Thank you for your interest in the shortened 32-item (4 items per octant) Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values (CSIV-32). Below are links to helpful resources, but if you have questions please email me.

Note: The links below are for the English-language version. My collaborators and I also translated the CSIV-32 into Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Spanish, and Tagalog/Filipino. I am happy to share these translated versions with you--just contact me at klocke@uidaho.edu

Links to CSIV-32 Items, Forms, and Scoring Programs

• List of CSIV-32 items organized by octant scale
• Download CSIV-32 form (along with R and SPSS scoring syntax) - pdf format
• Download Excel Workbook for Computing/Plotting an Individual's CSIV-32 Scores
• CSIV-32 Norms

Examples of Studies Using the CSIV-32

• Fournier, M. A., Dong, M., Quitasol, M. N., Weststrate, N. M., & Di Domenico, S. I. (2022). Components and correlates of personality coherence in action, agency, and authorship. European Journal of Personality, 36(3), 413-434. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070211034954
• Horner, M. S., Locke, K. D., & Hulsey, T. L. (2025). Assessing affective dimensions of the interpersonal circumplex: Development and validation of the Interpersonal Emotion Inventory. Journal of Personality Assessment, 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2400266
• Locke, K. D., & Heller, S. (2017). Communal and agentic interpersonal and intergroup motives predict preferences for status versus power. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 71–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216675333
• Kahalon, R., Shnabel, N., & Becker, J. C. (2019). The effects of exposure to positive gender stereotypes on women’s and men’s performance in counter-stereotypical tasks and pursuit of agentic and communal goals. Social Psychology, 51, 50-62. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000394
• Locke, K. D., & Adamic, E. (2012). Interpersonal circumplex vector length and Interpersonal decision making. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 764-769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.06.001
• Locke, K. D., Craig, T. Y., Baik, K., & Gohil, K. (2012). Binds and bounds of communion: Effects of interpersonal values on assumed similarity of self and others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 879-897. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029422
• Nielsen, S. R., & Wright, A. G. C. (2024). The structure of identity dysfunction in self-report measures. Journal of Personality Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2362982