Consistency, Scalability, and Personality Measurement
Title:
Consistency, Scalability, and Personality Measurement
ISBN:
9781461230724
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Edition:
1st ed. 1991.
Publication Information New:
New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1991.
Physical Description:
VIII, 157 p. online resource.
Series:
Recent Research in Psychology
Contents:
1 Personality Traits and Psychological Explanation -- 1.1 Personality traits as psychological structures -- 1.2 Personality traits as psychological constructs -- 1.3 Structures versus constructs -- 1.4 Models of explanation -- 1.5 How traits can explain behavior -- 1.6 Implications -- 2 Consistency in Personality Measurement -- 2.1 Actor and observer viewpoints -- 2.2 Empirical studies of consistency: Overview -- 2.3 Consistency as a moderator variable -- 2.4 Consistency as scalability -- 2.5 Summary -- 3 Scalability and Elevation -- 3.1 Elevation -- 3.2 Scalability -- 3.3 Some statistical properties of elevation and scalability -- 3.4 Anticipated relations among measures of elevation, scalability, and variability -- 3.5 Scalability and response idiosyncrasy -- 3.6 Why measure scalability? -- 4 A Single Trait Measure of Scalability -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 Pretest: Scaling of behaviors -- 4.3 Main study -- 4.4 Discussion -- 5 Development of the Situation Behavior Inventory -- 5.1 Sampling considerations -- 5.2 Iterative refinement of the SBI -- 5.3 Scaling of behaviors -- 5.4 Summary -- 6 Scalability and Elevation as Measured by the SBI -- 6.1 Methods -- 6.2 Scoring and scale construction -- 6.3 Results - Internal analyses -- 6.4 Results - External analyses -- 6.5 Discussion -- 7 Scalability on Standard Personality Inventories -- 7.1 Four interpretations of individual differences in consistency -- 7.2 Distinguishing between different interpretations of consistency -- 7.3 Method -- 7.4 Results -- 7.5 Discussion -- 7.6 Summary -- 8 Scalability Re-examined -- 8.1 Review of findings -- 8.2 Traits reconsidered -- 8.3 Scalability and authoritarianism: Rationale -- 8.4 Scalability and authoritarianism: Reanalysis of the SBI data -- 8.5 Towards reconciliation of psychometric and idiographic approaches to personality -- References -- Appendix 1- Situation Behavior Inventory (SBI) -- Instructions -- Items -- SBI Scale composition: Non-extreme scales -- Appendix 2 - Programs for Computing Scalability -- Pascal program for VM/CMS -- SAS program: Proc MATRIX routine.
Abstract:
In the last 25 years, there is no issue in personality psychology which has been as hotly debated as that of consistency. This book introduces scalability as a reasonable and theoretically satisfying conceptualization of consistency. Three empirical studies of scalability are described; their focus is on the role of scalability as a moderator in prediction. This book makes significant inroads in the field of personality measurement, and, by reviewing previous approaches to personality assessment, it provides a sound theoretical basis for the description and mapping of personalities.
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Language:
English