Assessment of social traits in married couples: Self-reports versus spouse ratings around the interpersonal circumplex.

Smith, Timothy W.; Williams, Paula

doi:10.1037/pas0000226

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“…We also found that GAD, SAD, and MDD symptoms were associated with distinct patterns in self-informant discrepancy, specifically mean-level differences between self- and informant-report. Relative to informants’ perceptions, participants on average endorsed affiliation at a higher level and dominance at a lower level, consistent with past findings in married couples (e.g., Smith & Williams, 2016). MDD symptoms did not significantly moderate the self-other discrepancy for dominance or affiliation, in line with prior findings of depressive realism (e.g., Lewinsohn et al, 1980).…”

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confidence: 85%

Self- and other-perceptions of interpersonal problems: Effects of generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and depression

Shin

Newman

2019

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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Despite attention on overlap and distinction between generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), and major depressive disorder (MDD), interpersonal specificity (distinct, prototypical interpersonal features) between the disorders has been understudied. There is emerging evidence for such specificity (e.g., Erickson et al., 2016), but most studies relied on self-report, and not all studies controlled for shared variance between the disorders, complicating interpretation of findings. The present study extended the literature by examining unique interpersonal correlates of GAD, SAD, and MDD symptoms on self- and informant-report, and how self-informant agreement (both mean-level and correlation) in perception of interpersonal affiliation, dominance, and distress varied as a function of the symptoms. 369 college-aged participants (43% with clinical-level symptoms for at least one of the disorders (GAD, SAD, MDD), 57% non-disordered) and up to three of their significant others rated participants’ interpersonal problems (interpersonal behaviors that were difficult to engage in or engaged in excessively). We found evidence for exploitable tendencies in GAD, socially avoidant and nonassertive tendencies in SAD, and coldness in MDD based on self-report, but not on informant-report. Although self-other correlation was positive across outcomes, participants endorsed higher affiliation and interpersonal distress and lower dominance relative to informants. GAD, SAD, and MDD symptoms showed distinct moderating effects on these self-informant discrepancies. GAD symptoms predicted over-endorsing affiliation, SAD predicted under-endorsing dominance and affiliation, and MDD predicted no discrepancies in affiliation and dominance. The results speak to potential differentiation of the disorders based on distinct patterns of self-other discrepancy in interpersonal perceptions.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Self- and other-perceptions of interpersonal problems: Effects of generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and depression

Shin

Newman

2019

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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“…Discrepancies in self-informant agreement on dominance versus affiliation that we found on AA ratings have not been found in cross-sectional trait measures or in laboratory settings (Foltz et al, 1999;Moskowitz, 1990;Pedersen et al, 2011;Smith & Williams, 2016). These findings underscore the possibility that different perceptual processes are engaged when assessing behavior naturalistically in the moment than when rating globally or in controlled environments.…”

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confidence: 47%

“…Research with cross-sectional measures shows that there tends to be moderate selfinformant agreement on trait measures of dominance and affiliation (Foltz et al, 1999;Moskowitz, 1990;Moskowitz & Zuroff, 2005;Pedersen et al, 2011;Shin & Newman, 2019;Smith & Williams, 2016;Traupman et al, 2009) and on other highly interpersonal personality traits such as agreeableness and extraversion (Connelly & Ones, 2010). The extent of selfinformant agreement on a given trait is influenced, in part, by asymmetries in the types of information available to each person that speak to the nature of that trait (Funder, 1995;Vazire & Carlson, 2011).…”

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Filling Gaps in the Nomological Networks for Dominance and Affiliation by Examining Self-Informant Agreement on Momentary Interpersonal Behavior

Ringwald¹,

Pilkonis²,

Wright³

2022

Preprint

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Interpersonal functioning involves an interplay of subjective perceptions and overt behavior. This study examines agreement between self and informant reports of behavior measured naturalistically to investigate the associations between observable behavior, self-perceptions, and others’ perceptions and to enrich the nomological networks for the domains of dominance and affiliation. We studied a sample of romantic couples (N=193) who rated their own and their partner’s interpersonal behavior during a 21-day ambulatory assessment (AA) protocol. We used a multitrait-multimethod-multirater correlation matrix including self- and informant-reported averages and variability of dominance and affiliation measured by AA and cross-sectional self-reports of dominance, affiliation, and interpersonal distress. There was no self-informant agreement on dominance measured by AA, but there was moderate agreement on affiliation averages and variability. Only AA self-reports of average dominance and affiliation, not informant reports, converged with analogous cross-sectional self-reports. Both self and informant reports of dominance and affiliation variability correlated with self-reported interpersonal distress. Results suggest that the internal versus external experiences of dominance and affiliation differ and that these differences have important implications in everyday interpersonal functioning. Our findings also show that self-perceptions of variability in dominance and affiliation, others’ perceptions of variability, and actual behavioral variability relate to interpersonal problems.

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“…Spouses may be very apt in assessing their partners' resilience. When external raters know the target respondent well, as is likely to be the case for spouses, informant reports can provide substantial improvements over self-reports in predicting a variety of variables, especially variables related to social desirable behavior or traits (Smith and Williams 2016;Connelly and Ones 2010;Vazire and Carlson 2011). Additional research would be needed to assess whether spouse-rated scores can sufficiently capture individual resilience in an objective way (Frese and Zapf 1999;Parker and Collins 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

How a Learning-Oriented Organizational Climate is Linked to Different Proactive Behaviors: The Role of Employee Resilience

Caniëls

Baaten

2018

Soc Indic Res

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This study develops and tests a model of the relationship between a learning-oriented organizational climate, employee individual resilience and three broad categories of proactive behaviors, i.e. proactive work behavior, proactive strategic behavior and proactive person-environment fit behavior. The study tests a mediation model. Cross-sectional data was gathered from 108 employees in four Dutch organizations. Results demonstrate that employee resilience mediates the relationships between a learning-oriented organizational climate and proactive work behaviors. By investigating three proactive behaviors, this study answers to the call for studies that empirically investigate multiple related proactive behaviors within one study design. This design sheds light on whether a learning-oriented organizational climate promotes certain proactive behaviors more than others.

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Assessment of social traits in married couples: Self-reports versus spouse ratings around the interpersonal circumplex.

Cited by 9 publications

References 59 publications

Self- and other-perceptions of interpersonal problems: Effects of generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and depression

Self- and other-perceptions of interpersonal problems: Effects of generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and depression

Filling Gaps in the Nomological Networks for Dominance and Affiliation by Examining Self-Informant Agreement on Momentary Interpersonal Behavior

How a Learning-Oriented Organizational Climate is Linked to Different Proactive Behaviors: The Role of Employee Resilience

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