The ACL offers a full sphere of psychological trait assessments. The Adjective Check List Standard Scales are:

Modus operandi: Four scales assessing ways in which the respondent has approached the task of describing self or others.

• Number Checked: The total number of adjectives checked
• Favorable: The number of socially desirable adjectives checked
• Unfavorable: The number of unfavorable (socially undesirable) adjectives checked
• Communality: Correspondence of responses to the pattern of checking typically found among people-in-general

Need scales: Fifteen scales assessing psychological needs or wants identified as important in Henry A. Murray’s need-press theory of personality.

• Achievement: To strive to be outstanding in pursuits of socially recognized significance
• Dominance: To seek and maintain a role as leader in groups, or to be influential and controlling in individual relationships
• Endurance: To persist in any task undertaken
• Order: To place special emphasis on neatness, organization, and planning in one's activities
• Intraception: To engage in attempts to understand one's own behavior or the behavior of others
• Nurturance: To engage in behaviors that provide material or emotional benefits to others
• Affiliation: To seek and maintain numerous personal friendships
• Heterosexuality: To seek the company of and derive emotional satisfaction from interactions with opposite-sex peers
• Exhibition: To behave in such a way as to elicit the immediate attention of others
• Autonomy: To act independently of others or of social values and expectations
• Aggression: To engage in behaviors that attack or hurt others
• Change: To seek novelty of experience and avoid routine
• Succorance: To solicit sympathy, affection, or emotional support from others
• Abasement: To express feelings of inferiority through self-criticism, guilt, or social impotence
• Deference: To seek and maintain subordinate roles in relationships with others

Topical scales: Nine scales assessing a diverse set of attributes, potentialities, and role characteristics.

• Counseling Readiness: Readiness to accept counseling or professional advice in regard to personal problems, psychological difficulties and the like
• Self-Control: The extent to which self-control is imposed, and valued
• Self-Confidence: Self-confidence, poise, and self-assurance
• Personal Adjustment: Good adjustment in the sense of the ability to cope with situational and interpersonal demands, and a feeling of efficacy
• Ideal Self: Strong sense of personal worth; or, harmony between what one is and what one wants to be
• Creative Personality: The desire to do and think differently from the norm, and a talent for originality
• Military Leader: Steadiness, self-discipline, and good judgment of the kind required in positions of military (or related) leadership
• Masculine: Role-qualities such as ambition, assertiveness, and initiative associated with everyday notions of masculinity
• Feminine: Role-qualities such as helpfulness, sympathy, and affection associated with everyday notions of femininity

Transactional Analysis scales: Five scales, an Egogram, assessing components of ego functioning from the Transactional Analysis (TA) theory of personality developed by Eric Berne.

• Critical Parent: Attitudes of evaluation, severity, and skepticism associated with the concept of a "critical parent"
• Nurturing Parent: Attitudes of support, stability, and acceptance associated with the concept of a "nurturing parent"
• Adult: Attitudes of independence, objectivity, and industriousness associated with the concept of a "mature adult"
• Free Child: Attitudes of playfulness, impulsivity, and self-centeredness associated with the concept of a "free" or very expressive child
• Adapted Child: Attitudes of deference, conformity, and self-discipline associated with the concept of an "adapted" or very dutiful child

Origence-intellectence scales: Four scales assessing the balance between preferences for affective-emotional and rational-realistic modes of functioning from George Welsh’s structural dimensions of personality.

• High Origence-Low Intellectence: Feelings and emotion (high origence) valued more highly than detachment and rationality (low intellectence). High scores suggest informality, vitality, and playfulness
• High Origence-High Intellectence: High value place on both affect (origence) and rationality (intellectence). High scores suggest versatility, unconventionality, and individuality
• Low Origence-Low Intellectence: No particular value placed on either origence or intellectence. High scores suggest contentment, conventionality, and optimism
• Low Origence-High Intellectence: Rationality and analysis (intellectence) valued more highly than feelings and emotion (origence). High scores suggest logicality, industriousness, and cognitive clarity

Introduction
Modus Operandi Scales
Need Scales
Topical Scales
Transactional Analysis Scales
Origence-Intellectence Scales
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