Multitrait-Multimethod Evaluation of the Personality Research Form

Jackson, Douglas N.; Guthrie, George M.

doi:10.1037/e473742008-090

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“…The values for the nine scales in Table 2 which were selected from the Personality Research Form, Form A are quite similar to those reported by Jackson (1965), except for the achievement and affiliation mean scores, for which the Georgia Tech sample was higher in achievement and lower in affiliation.…”

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confidence: 64%

Personality and motivational factors in responses to an environmental description scale.

Marks¹

1968

Journal of Educational Psychology

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 64%

Personality and motivational factors in responses to an environmental description scale.

Marks¹

1968

Journal of Educational Psychology

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“…Convergent and discriminant validity of the PRF have been demonstrated by correlating scores on PRF scales with scales on the Bentler Psychological Inventory (BPI), the Bentler Interactive Psychological Inventory, the Cattell High School Personality Questionnaire, the JPI, and the California Psychological Inventory, as well as other instruments (Jackson, 1984). Other validity studies of the PRF have been done correlating test scores with peer ratings (Jackson, 1984;Jackson & Guthrie, 1968;Kusyszyn, 1968). A study (Jackson, 1984) done on Form-E using a single rater who was a roommate of the person being assessed resulted in correlations ranging from .34 (Defendence) to .74 (Play), with a median correlation of .51 for the eight PRF scales used in the study.…”

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Personality Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics

Seefeldt

Lyon

1992

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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A study that attempted to validate the characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOAs) as presented by Woititz (1983) was conducted. Male and female college students self‐reported to be ACOAs, non‐ACOAs, or individuals who had participated in an ACOA treatment group. These groups were compared on 12 of Woititz's 13 characteristics using objective personality measures. No significant differences were found among the groups on any of the characteristics measured. The results severely question the validity of Woititz's descriptions of ACOAs. The dangers of using these characteristics in the diagnosis and treatment of individuals are discussed.

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“…Analytic techniques.-A method for analyzing multimethod matrices has been proposed by Jackson and its effectiveness demonstrated (101,121 ). This approach analyzes only the variance common to two or more methods, the within-method matrices having 1.00 in the diagonals and .00 off the diag onals.…”

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“…Es sen tially nega tive ev idence of con vergen t val idity across diffe ren t metho ds of measuremen t was re ported for the Ed wards Pe rsonal Preference Schedule (EPPS ) (32). U sing Ja ckson's mult im ethod factor analys is, wh ich analyzes only variance common to more than one method, Jackson & Gu th rie (101) found th at common variance on Murray's needs, as measured by self-repor t (Personality Research Form ), self-ratings, and peer-ratings, could be accounted for by 13 specific concept factors with each of the three methods loading on them, two factors with pairs of psychologically related concepts, and only three somewhat mixed factors.…”

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Theory and Techniques of Personality Measurement

Fiske¹,

Pearson²

1970

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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This chapter is one of the intermittent series which has had "assess ment" in its title. The authors have dropped that term because of its impre cision and its connotations. Assessment has often been used to refer to the combining of measures, usually by human judgment, to predict a criterion. But personality measurement as a whole involves the combination or reduc tion of observations to obtain an index and is concerned with much more than the prediction of criteria. Additionally, the terms assessment and crite ria have an evaluative flavor; while adequacy of functioning is involved in much of personality, a science of personality must not be limited to norma tive considerations. Finally, assessment has the connotation of dealing with the whole person. It seems quite clear that we cannot have a science of the whole person, or even of substantial segments of personality, until we un derstand the components.Most concepts in the personality field are so broad and heterogeneous in their referents that when one concept is used to describe different persons, it is very doubtful that the identical attribute is applied to each. The task fac ing personality today is the identifi cation and delineation of attributes which can be uniformly applied to persons, the objects of this science, with the specifi c applications of each attribute differing only in quantity, not quality. Coordinate with that task is the work of developing operations for measur ing each of these attributes. Such procedures must be standardized so that the measurements can, in principle, be replicated for the same persons and, particularly critical in this area, so that the measurements are getting at the same attribute in the different persons measured, without any sizable per son-instrument interaction. This chapter is concerned with the extent to which these standards are being approximated in personality measurement today.A science develops by an interactive or cyclical process, observations leading to concepts, and concepts guiding the next set of observations. In personality, an infi nity of observations has been conceptualized in a variety of sets of terms with general statements about them. These literary or even

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Multitrait-Multimethod Evaluation of the Personality Research Form

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Personality and motivational factors in responses to an environmental description scale.

Personality and motivational factors in responses to an environmental description scale.

Personality Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics

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