Personality Judgments in Adolescents' Families: The Perceiver, the Target, Their Relationship, and the Family

Abstract

The present study investigated whether personality judgments involve different processes in a family setting than in a nonfamily setting. We used the Social Relations Model to distinguish the effects of perceiver, target, perceiver-target relationship, and family on personality judgments. Family members of families with adolescents judged their own and the other members' Big Five factors. Judgments were found to depend on the relevance of personality factors within the family setting: Agreeableness and Conscientiousness were judged most consistently. Large relationship variance indicated that parents adjust their judgments to the target family member; large perceiver variance indicated that adolescents judge family members' personalities rather similarly. However, a comparison of self- and other-judgments showed adolescents' judgments to be no more related to their self-perceptions than parents' judgments. We concluded that the relevance of personality factors may differ on specific tasks within a setting.

Relations between Agreeableness and perceived support in family relationships: Why nice people are not always supportive

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“…Thus, the SRM makes a sharp distinction between the effects of dispositional characteristics of individuals, the dyadic relationships between individuals, and the family to which those individuals belong. SRM analyses have revealed that both perceived support and Agreeableness in family relationships are a function of characteristics of each partner in a relationship as well as the unique relationship between the partners (Branje, Van Aken, & Van Lieshout, 2002;Branje, Van Aken, Van Lieshout, & Mathijssen, 2003). High actor variance showed that differences in perceived support and Agreeableness of individual family members are to a large extent due to actor effects, or individual family members' disposition to generally perceive support and Agreeableness from other family members.…”

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