Construct validity of the Ebner-Shaw test of reconciliation.

Growth through the reconciliation of manageable dilemmas was the major theme of Frank Shaw's writings (4). Shaw's untimely death put an end to his own efforts to operationalize (in the best sense) his own brand of humanistic psychology. Ho rever, his ideas have inspired many psychologists who have been exposed to them. The present article reports a study by a group of young psychologists2 of the Ebner-Shaw Sentence Completion Test (2).