Role-playing Ability (RPA) scale

Role-playing Ability (RPA) scale
Fletcher 1982
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1.    I like to sleep late on the weekend.
2.    If I wish‚ I can imagine (or daydream) some things so vividly that they hold my attention in the way a good movie or story does.
3.    When telling a story I'm more interested in rather presenting the fact‚ than creating a mood or entertaining.
4.    When I dance I often lose myself in the music and the movement.
5.    I can imitate at least three different well-known people.
6.    People always seem to know when I’m not telling the complete untruth.
7.    I do not let other people's troubles bother me.
8.    If asked to play the part of a tightrope walker with hiccups‚ I could do a convincing job of it.
9.    I like to watch people for movements and mannerisms that set them apart from other people.
10.    After acting in a play myself‚ or seeing a play or movie‚ I have felt partly as though I were one of the ch‎aracters.
11.    If asked to draw a horse‚ I could do so convincingly.
12.    I have had the experience of telling a story with elaborations to make it sound better and then ha‎ving the elaborations seem as real to me as the actual experience.
13.    I have a serious interest in creative activities such as painting‚ writing‚ designing‚ and the like.
14.    If asked to play the part of a "hillbilly" factory everyone worker whom makes fun of‚ I could do so sympathetically
15.    When talking with people‚ I pay more attention to what they say than how they express it.
16.    I am good at playing the game of ch‎arades (acting out a concept in pantomime so that others can guess its meaning).
17.    I am good at mimicking accents.
18.    When telling a story I like to play the parts of all the different people involved.
19.    I like to tinker with mechanical or electrical things‚ work on cars or repair household appliances‚ etc.
20.    I do not have a good memory for the way people move‚ gesture‚ and make facial expressions.
21.    While watching a movie or show I sometimes become so involved that I feel myself participating in the action.
22.    When I read a novel‚ I become very involved‚ experiencing what’s going on‚ joining in with the action and the ch‎aracters.
23.    I am good at faking things.
24.    When speaking in front of large groups‚ I prefer to use a prepared outline or speech rather than speak extemporaneously.
25.    If asked to play the part of an elderly person living alone in a big city‚ I could do so convincingly.
26.    I am sometimes able to get so absorbed in a fantasy that I forget about present Self and become someone else in my imaging on.
27.    People tell me I am a good storyteller.
28.    I feel uncomfortable being the center of attention.
29.    I am able to exclude everything from my mind‚ imaginary construct a new world‚ and feel for a time that it is real.
30.    If asked to play the part of a Russian peasant‚ I could do so convincingly.
31.    I like action movies more than movies that concentrate on plot or ch‎aracter development.
32.    I like to imitate the way people talk‚ move‚ gesture‚ and make facial expressions.
33.    I can make just about anybody believe anything I say or do.
34.    I can usually “put on a show” and liven things up without being self-conscious about it.
35.    I like to imagine myself as being various types of people. B
36.    I talk with my hands.
37.    I often try to guess what people are thinking before they tell me.
38.    I have a good memory for voices and the way people talk.
39.    I have had the experience of imagining something so hard that it became almost real for me.
40.    I have participated in a high school or college play or other amateur theater productions.
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اعتبار: هماهنگی درونی آلفا کرونباخ برای خرده مقیاس شناختی مردان 0.8، زنان 0.74، و کل نمونه 0.77 و برای عملکرد مردان 0.79، زنان 0.84 و کل نمونه 0.82 و در نهایت کل مقیاس مردان 0.87، زنان 0.86 و کل نمونه 0.86 و بازآزمایی دوماهه 0.93 برای عملکرد و 0.62 برای شناختی
نمره گذاری:
Yes/ No
COGNITIVE: Attention to relevant behaviors items: 9 and 15. Memory for relevant behaviors items: 20 and 38.  General cognitive skills items: 35 and 37. The ability to become involved items: 2‚ 4‚ 7 and 10. Ability to become involved cont items: 13‚ 21‚ 22‚ 26‚ 29 and 39.
PERFORMANCE: Involved performance item: 12. General tendency to perform items: 16‚ 18‚ 27 and 40. Imitation and implicit rehearsal items: 5‚ 17 and 32. Convincingness and control items: 6‚ 23 and 33. Preference for expressive behavior item: 3. Lack of self-consciousness in performance item: 34. Self-role congruency items: 8‚ 14‚ 25 and 30.
FILLERS items: 1‚ 11‚ 19‚ 24‚ 28 and 36.
چگونگی دستیابی
This instrument can be found at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2645&context=theses
منبع برای آگاهی بیشتر
Fletcher‚ Kenneth E.‚ (1982).  "Development of a self-report measure of role-playing ability." ma‎sters. Theses 1911 - February 2014. 1509. https://doi.org/10.7275/5p8e-2d90