Environmental Personality Type
Assessment (1990)
The
original instrument, called the Environmental Personality Assessment or
EPTA, was developed for Dr. Salter's dissertation, which was
successfully defended in 1991.
SETA
- Experimental Form A (1993)
Form
A was the first major revision of the instrument. The update involved a
change in the name to the Salter Environmental Type Assessment, updates
to the scoring
algorithms to improve categorizations, and the addition of unscored test items
for development purposes.
SETA
- Experimental Form B (2000)
The
SETA Form B built on Form A and was originally published by CPP. Form B
included 60 scored items and 40 test items, and was the version of the SETA used in the bulk of
the research studies conducted during the late 1990s and 2000s.
SETA - Experimental Form C (2012)
Form
C is the current version of the SETA, now in active environmetric
testing. After several analyses of Form B profiles, the number of
scored items was increased to 76 (with more than half of these items
having been on the EPTA in some form). The bigger update was to move
the administration and scoring of the SETA into an online format,
however. This change allows the instrument to be "tailored" to the
environments being assessed.
