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McClelland, David C.; Atkinson, John W.; Clark, Russell A.; Lowell, Edgar L.

doi:10.1037/11144-010

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“…Thus, if one wishes to assess nurturance, one must observe people in situations where nurturance is a viable response. Similar points have been raised by Allport (1966), Alston (1975), Bem and Funder (1978), Snyder and Ickes (1985), and Chatman et al (1999) and are explicitly recognized in McClelland, Atkinson, Clark, and Lowell's (1953) use of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) for assessing achievement motivation, Rosenman's (1978)Structured Interview for assessing Type A personality (cf. Tett et al, 1992), Endler, Edwards, and Vitelli's (1991) measurement of state versus trait anxiety, and Latham, Saari, Pursell, and Campion's (1980) work on the situational interview.…”

Section: The Trait Activation Processmentioning

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A personality trait-based interactionist model of job performance.

Tett

Burnett

2003

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Evidence for situational specificity of personality-job performance relations calls for better understanding of how personality is expressed as valued work behavior. On the basis of an interactionist principle of trait activation (R. P. Tett & H. A. Guterman, 2000), a model is proposed that distinguishes among 5 situational features relevant to trait expression (job demands, distracters, constraints, releasers, and facilitators), operating at task, social, and organizational levels. Trait-expressive work behavior is distinguished from (valued) job performance in clarifying the conditions favoring personality use in selection efforts. The model frames linkages between situational taxonomies (e.g., J. L. Holland's [1985] RIASEC model) and the Big Five and promotes useful discussion of critical issues, including situational specificity, personality-oriented job analysis, team building, and work motivation.

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Section: The Trait Activation Processmentioning

confidence: 53%

A personality trait-based interactionist model of job performance.

Tett

Burnett

2003

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…Each of the 12 narrative scenes was coded for the presence (score = 1) or absence (score = 0) of two themes (rules–reinforcements and self-discipline) associated with Lakoff's (2002) strict-father model and two themes (nurturant caregiving and empathy–openness) associated with his nurturant-parent model. The use of a presence–absence logic for coding follows the precedent established by McClelland and colleagues (McClelland, Atkinson, Clark, & Lowell, 1953; Schultheiss & Pang, 2007) for assessing motives in Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Murray, 1943) stories and numerous content-analysis procedures developed by McAdams (1985) and others (e.g., Woike, 2007) for assessing motivational themes in life-narrative scenes. Given the relatively low base rate of each theme, as well as the psychological nature of the themes themselves, it makes little sense to rate the amount of the theme in each narrative.…”

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“…Following conventions established for the coding of TAT stories in research settings (e.g., McClelland et al, 1953; Schultheiss & Peng, 2007; Winter, 1973), coding reliability was determined in two ways.…”

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Family metaphors and moral intuitions: How conservatives and liberals narrate their lives.

McAdams¹,

Albaugh²,

Farber³

et al. 2008

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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This research examines life-narrative interviews obtained from 128 highly religious and politically active adults to test differences between political conservatives and liberals on (a) implicit family metaphors (G. Lakoff, 2002) and (b) moral intuitions (J. Haidt & C. Joseph, 2004). Content analysis of 12 key scenes in life stories showed that conservatives, as predicted, tended to depict authority figures as strict enforcers of moral rules and to identify lessons in self-discipline. By contrast, liberals were more likely to identify lessons learned regarding empathy and openness, even though (contrary to prediction) they were no more likely than conservatives to describe nurturant authority figures. Analysis of extended discourse on the development of religious faith and personal morality showed that conservatives emphasized moral intuitions regarding respect for social hierarchy, allegiance to in-groups, and the purity or sanctity of the self, whereas liberals invested more significance in moral intuitions regarding harm and fairness. The results are discussed in terms of the recent upsurge of interest among psychologists in political ideology and the value of using life-narrative methods and concepts to explore how politically active adults attempt to construct meaningful lives.

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“…Explicit measurement of self-concept has a long history (reviewed by Wylie, 1974, and not recapitulated here), whereas there is only a much sparser history of attempts to capture the self in an implicit mode of operation. Projective measures, such as the Thematic Apperception Test (McClelland, Atkinson, Clark, & Lowell, 1953; Murray, 1943), represented the state of the art until the late 1970s, when Rogers et al (1977) proposed the use of latencies of trait self-descriptiveness judgments in self-concept assessment.…”

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Using the Implicit Association Test to measure self-esteem and self-concept.

Greenwald¹,

Farnham²

2000

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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1998) to measure self-esteem by assessing automatic associations of self with positive or negatlve valence. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) showed that two IAT measures defined a factor that was distinct from, but weakly correlated with, a factor defined by standard explicit (self-report) measures of self-esteem. Experiment 2 tested known-groups validity of two IAT gender self-concept measures. Compared with well-established explicit measures, the IAT measures revealed triple the difference in measured masculinity-femininity between men and women. Again, CFA revealed construct divergence between implicit and explicit measures. Experiment 3 assessed the self-esteem IAT's validity in predicting cognitive reactions to success and failure. High implicit self-esteem was associated in the predicted fashion with buffering against adverse effects of failure on two of four measures.

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A personality trait-based interactionist model of job performance.

A personality trait-based interactionist model of job performance.

Family metaphors and moral intuitions: How conservatives and liberals narrate their lives.

Using the Implicit Association Test to measure self-esteem and self-concept.

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