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Informant (I) data

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  • ask someone who knows the person well
  • based on real world (or the person’s projection into the world)
  • limitations: people might act differently in different contexts
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Life outcome (L) data

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  • verifiable, objective
  • interpretation of data is subjective
  • many variables can affect outcome besides personality
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Behavioral (B) data

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  • watch what the person does for yourself
  • multi-determined: lots of reasons why they might act a certain way
  • don’t know what is going on in their mind when the act
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Self-judgement (S) data

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  • ask the person directly
  • individual’s subjective experience/judgement
  • can be biased, self-presentation
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Why are we drawn to personality tests?

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  • self-discovery
  • become the person we want to be
  • identify settings in which we will thrive
  • tell others about ourselves (way of shaping our environment)
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Correlation coefficient

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-size of an effect or association between two variables, x and y

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p-level

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probability that the result would occur (by chance) if the null hypothesis were true

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Binomial Effect Size Display

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  • converts magnitude of a correlation that are more clinically significant
  • divide correlation by two, add or subtract to 50
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What three factors make good measures of personality?

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  • Validity
  • Reliability
  • Generalizability
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Validity

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  • does it measure what it says its measuring
  • degree to which an instrument reflects what it is supposed to measure
  • convergent
  • discriminant
  • predictive
  • depends on reliability
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Convergent validity

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  • does it relate to what it is supposed to be related to?

- is it associated with other measures that measure the same thing

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Discriminant validity

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-it doesn’t relate to things it shouldn’t be related to

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Predictive validity

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-relates to meaningful behaviors and outcomes

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Reliability

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-is it consistent?
-reduced by error
-increased by :
standardizing procedures
making relevant to participant
aggregating items
- may not increase the validity of the measurement
-for self-report measures: internal consistency and test-retest important

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Internal consistency

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Items on the measure that are supposed to measure the same thing are highly correlated

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Test-retest

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The same person will receive the same score at different times

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Generalizability

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Validity and reliability hold across cultural contexts

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Who created the Myers-Briggs Personality measure

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Katerine Briggs and her daugther Isabel Briggs Myers

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Is Myers-Briggs a good measure of personality?

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  • convergent validity: yes (for extraversion and conscientiousness)
  • discriminant: mixed
  • predictive: mixed
  • internal consistency: yes
  • test-retest: yes for continuous, not for type
  • don’t know if they are generalizable
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Problems with the Myers-Briggs

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  • poor reliability and validity
  • oversimplification of Jungian types
  • no norms
    • you don’t know what your score means compared to other people
    • ambiguity in interpreting the scores
  • correlates to better measures (which we can use instead)
  • breaks up personality into types instead of a continuum
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Gordon Allport

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  • had assistant find all of the terms in the dictionary that relate to personality
  • about 18,000 words
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Fundamental Lexical Hypothesis

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if a word is important, it will be in a language

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Raymond Cattell

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  • 16 traits
  • self-report inventory
  • used factor analysis
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Factor analysis

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  • summarizes interrelations among a set of variables
  • reduces many variables into basic/important elements
  • identifies groups, clusters, factors, or related items
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Limitations of factor analysis

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  • factors depend on what you include in the analysis
  • factors are defined by the researcher
  • factors are often difficult to interpret
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The Big Five

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  • Openness
  • Conscientiousness
  • Extraversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Neuroticism
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Neuroticism

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  • anxiety
  • hostility
  • depression
  • self-consciousness
  • impulsiveness
  • vulnerability to stress
  • anger
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Neuroticism questionnaire items

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  • I am not a worrier (reverse)

- I often feel inferior to others

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Ozer and Benet-Martinez (2006)

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meta analysis about the big five traits and outcome measures

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The more neurotic you are… (individual, interpersonal, institutional)

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  • the more unhappy, harder to cope
  • worse family relations
  • more dissatisfied with job, more likely to engage in crime
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Neuroticism and affective state

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more neuroticism associted with more reports of hostility and nervousness

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Extraversion

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  • warmth
  • gregariousness
  • assertiveness
  • activity
  • excitement
  • seeking positive emotion
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Extraversion questionnaire items

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-I like to have a lot of people around me

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The more extroverted you are…

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  • happier, more grateful, longer life, healthier
  • more accepted by peers, more successful dates and relationships
  • more satisfied with job, more involved in community, better leader
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Extraversion and affective state

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high correlation with HAP

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Agreeableness

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  • trust
  • straightforward
  • altruistic
  • modest
  • temper-minded
  • compliance
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agreeableness questionnaire items

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-I try to be courteous

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the more agreeable you are..

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  • more forgiving, religious, funnier, longer life, happier
  • more accepted by peers, more satisfied with dates
  • more social interests, higher job attainment, avoid criminal behavior
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Conscientiousness

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  • self-discipline
  • dutifulness
  • competence
  • order
  • deliberation
  • achievement striving
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conscientiousness questionnaire items

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  • I am a productive person who always gets the job done
  • I strive for excellence in everything I do
  • I keep my belongings neat and clean
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The more conscientious you are…

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  • more religious, longer life, healthier, avoid drug use
  • satisfied with dates and family
  • better job performance, politically conservative, avoid criminal behavior
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Openness

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  • fantasy
  • aesthetics
  • feelings
  • actions
  • values
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openness questionnaire items

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  • I don’t like to wast my time daydreaming (reverse)

- I often enjoy playing with theories or abstract ideas

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The more open you are…

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  • more forgiving, more inspired

- more interested in arts, more politically liberal

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Hierarchical view of personality

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Three factor model

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Three factor model

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  • Negative emotionality
  • positive emotionality
  • constraint
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Negative emotionality

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-neuroticism

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Positive emotionality

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  • extraversion

- agreeableness

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Constraint

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  • conscientiousness
  • openness
  • agreeableness
  • ability to regulate and control emotions
  • interpersonal relatedness (comes up in Chinese culture?) would probably be under constraint
  • higher order regulation
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Do global reports relate to personality in daily life?

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yes

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Will Fleeson (2001) students with pagers

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  • asked at random intervals how they felt (e.g. during the previous hour how well does ‘talkative’ describe you?” (daily rating)
  • compared to NEO (global rating)
  • people showed all traits
  • distribution of daily ratings highly correlated with global ratings
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Do self reports of personality correspond to peer report?

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Yes (about 0.51)

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Kelly/Connolly Longitudinal Study

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  • longitudinal 20-70 yrs old
  • 300 engaged Anglo American middle class CT couples
  • kids sent card when participants died
  • also self and peer rated
  • used by jackson to measure what traits predict longevity
  • men: C, O
  • women: A, Emotional stability
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Joshua Jackson: Are you or your friends ratings of personality better at predicting when you will die?

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  • peer ratings predicted longevity better than self-ratings
  • men: conscientiousness and openness were predictors
  • women: agreeableness and emotional stability were predictors
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Does the NEO generalize across cultures

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yes

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Linguistic evidence for NEO generalization (Hofstee et al., 1997)

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  • 126 words (english, dutch, german)
  • factor analysis
  • N,C,A,E emerged in all three languages
  • O similar in english /german
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Openness and generalization

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  • lower internal consistency than other traits

- varies across culture

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Etic approach

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  • import Western questionnaires

- translate and perform factor analysis to see if same traits appear

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Problems with etic approach

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  • translation takes time
  • cultural bias
  • limited to words that are easily translated
  • only shows that Western measures apply to other cultures (would they emerge naturally?
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Translation-Back translation

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-translate to other language then translate back to english

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confirmatory factor analysis (Etic)

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confirm hypothesis to see if same factors emerge

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exploratory factory analysis

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-which factors emerge

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McCrae et al (1998) NEO in the Phillipines

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  • translated NEO

- found factors emerged in both samples, similarly correlated

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Emic approach

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  • use indigenous terms and scores

- redevelop measures in other cultures

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Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI)

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  • adminstered CPAI and translated NEO
  • factor analysis (exploratory)
  • N,A,E,C in both
  • O not in CPAI
  • Interpersonal relatedness not found in NEO
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Interpersonal relatedness

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  • accepting others’ requests
  • avoiding being indebted to others
  • avoid offending others
  • traditional practices
  • obedience to elders
  • dislike uncertainty
  • makes sense in a collectivistic culture (Group goals)
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Strenghts of Big Five

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  • based on language
  • high reliability ad validity
  • relativity to administer
  • replicable across cultures except for openness
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Limitations of the big five

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  • some parts of personality might not be represented in language
  • can’t yet claim if universal
  • don’t know goals, motivations, values
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Schwarz & Boehnke, 2005 values

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measure of values across cultures

  • high reliability 0.7-0.9
  • predicts religiosity
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Value Priorities

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  • openness to change
  • self-transcendence
  • conservation
  • self-enhancement
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Openness to change

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  • stimulation
  • self direction
  • hedonism
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self-transcendence

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  • universalism
  • benevolence
  • conformity
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conservation

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  • tradition

- security

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self-enhancement

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  • power

- achievement

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