Revisiting the Stability of Variability: Traitedness and Supertraitedness on the Acl and Neo-Ffi

Satterwhite, Robert C.; Fogle, Ellen E.; Williams, John E.

doi:10.2224/sbp.1999.27.2.205

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“…By using situation-specific frequency-reports, researchers get a glimpse of how accurately a respondent can actually report on their trait expression in a specific situation. Note that this ASP-derived attempt to gather quasiobjective (countable) information about the foundations for individual assessment is different from the concept of "traitedness" (e.g., Hamaker et al, 2007;Satterwhite et al, 1999) that is sometimes employed to assess the stability and reliability of personality traits across diverse contexts. Traitedness refers to the (self-reported) degree to which an individual's behavior in a specific situation is consistent and characteristic of them across various situations.…”

Section: Respondent's Self-reported Trait For Each Situation and (B) ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Asymmetric sampling of personality (ASP): A novel approach to understanding validity limits in personality assessment and possible remedies

Grüning,

Lechner,

Le Mens

et al. 2024

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Assessing people's personalities using self-reports is complicated by three central problems: low predictability of behavior, discrepancies between self- and observer reports, and divergent target reports across observers. Going beyond existing research on common survey biases, we introduce an information sampling bias that can explain all three problems. In judgment and decision research, asymmetric sampling occurs when an individual can only gather a sample of information about a target object (e.g., environment, person) from his or her own experience. It follows that any personal sample is limited by the environment and, given behavioral baselines, is selective for certain experiences (e.g., based on positive affect or habits). We apply the sampling framework to personality assessment and show that, independent of motivational constraints, selective sampling alone invokes an asymmetric mental model of one's own (but also others') personality (e.g., extraversion) in which certain situations are over- or under-represented. We call this asymmetric sampling of personality (ASP). Asymmetric samples of experienced situations lack the generalizability to reliably predict behavior (as a tendency to behave consistently across situations). Moreover, differently biased situation samples can explain self-observer discrepancies in personality ratings as well as multiple observer divergences, calling for a revision of quality standards for inter-rater reliability. Understanding ASP provides a methodological solution to these three problems: it assists all respondents (i.e., self- and peer-observers) in symmetrically sampling situations that generally make it easy or difficult to express a particular personality trait. We discuss ASP in assessment contexts, as well as procedural extensions of the sampling framework, and suggest specific study paradigms for quantifying individual bias due to ASP.

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Section: Respondent's Self-reported Trait For Each Situation and (B) ...mentioning

confidence: 99%