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PERSONALITY CONSISTENCY AND SITUATIONAL CONSTRAINT

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1984
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An experiment was conducted to demonstrate the effect of situational constraint as a moderator of the predictive validity of trait constructs and of the cross-situational consistency of behavior. Subjects were administered the extraversion scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and their social behavior in a waiting-room situation and in a role-played job interview was observed under conditions of either low (neutral condition) or high (forced-introversion condition) situational constraint. The hypothesis that, under high constraint, restriction of range on the dependent variables would attenuate validity and consistency correlations was only partially confirmed. The strongest finding was that judges' ratings of subjects' talkativeness, overall exhibited behavior, and inferred dispositional extraversion yielded significantly higher correlations for the more subjective and broader measures than for the more objective, narrow ones. The utility of these types of data and their place in the consistency-specificity debate are discussed.
Title: PERSONALITY CONSISTENCY AND SITUATIONAL CONSTRAINT.
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Name(s): DAUER, STEVEN J.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1984
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 92 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: An experiment was conducted to demonstrate the effect of situational constraint as a moderator of the predictive validity of trait constructs and of the cross-situational consistency of behavior. Subjects were administered the extraversion scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and their social behavior in a waiting-room situation and in a role-played job interview was observed under conditions of either low (neutral condition) or high (forced-introversion condition) situational constraint. The hypothesis that, under high constraint, restriction of range on the dependent variables would attenuate validity and consistency correlations was only partially confirmed. The strongest finding was that judges' ratings of subjects' talkativeness, overall exhibited behavior, and inferred dispositional extraversion yielded significantly higher correlations for the more subjective and broader measures than for the more objective, narrow ones. The utility of these types of data and their place in the consistency-specificity debate are discussed.
Identifier: 14200 (digitool), FADT14200 (IID), fau:11011 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1984.
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Subject(s): Personality and situation
Personality tests
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