Testing the structure and process of personality using ambulatory assessment data: An overview of within-person and person-specific techniques.

Hofmans, Joeri; Clercq, Barbara De; Kuppens, Peter; Verbeke, Lize; Widiger, Thomas A.

doi:10.1037/pas0000562

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“…Such low internal consistency indices are also observed in our study. Whereas this is not problematic because internal consistency is not a goal in itself, but only matters to the extent that it serves validity ( Hofmans et al, in press ), we nevertheless tested whether low internal consistency suppressed some of the personality-ideology relationships. To this end, we checked the correlations between ideology and the individual TIPI items.…”

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Personality and Party Ideology Among Politicians. A Closer Look at Political Elites From Canada and Belgium

2018

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We examined the relationship between Big Five personality and the political ideology of elected politicians. To this end, we studied 303 politicians from Flanders, Wallonia, and Canada, relating their self-reported Big Five scores to a partisanship-based measure of political ideology. Our findings show that, in line with the congruency model of personality, Openness to Experience is the best and most consistent correlate of political ideology, with politicians high on Openness to Experience being more likely to be found among the more progressive left-wing political parties.

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2018

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“…Personality science has been slow to reform, often citing the many costs and challenges associated with crafting and collecting objective assessments of naturalistic behaviour (e.g. Hofmans, De Clercq, Kuppens, Verbeke, & Widiger, 2019; Wrzus & Mehl, 2015). Such concerns are reasonable and justified—the careful curation of behavioural data ‘from scratch’ is no small feat.…”

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The Personality Panorama: Conceptualizing Personality through Big Behavioural Data

2020

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Personality psychology has long been grounded in data typologies, particularly in the delineation of behavioural, life outcome, informant‐report, and self‐report sources of data from one another. Such data typologies are becoming obsolete in the face of new methods, technologies, and data philosophies. In this article, we discuss personality psychology's historical thinking about data, modern data theory's place in personality psychology, and several qualities of big data that urge a rethinking of personality itself. We call for a move away from self‐report questionnaires and a reprioritization of the study of behaviour within personality science. With big data and behavioural assessment, we have the potential to witness the confluence of situated, seamlessly interacting psychological processes, forming an inclusive, dynamic, multiangle view of personality. However, big behavioural data come hand in hand with important ethical considerations, and our emerging ability to create a ‘personality panopticon’ requires careful and thoughtful navigation. For our research to improve and thrive in partnership with new technologies, we must not only wield our new tools thoughtfully, but humanely. Through discourse and collaboration with other disciplines and the general public, we can foster mutual growth and ensure that humanity's burgeoning technological capabilities serve, rather than control, the public interest. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology

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“…This represents another threat to the reproducibility of ESM studies (Munafo et al, 2017). The structure of ESM data allows the examination of the variability of a target process over time, within as well as between individuals (Hofmans, et al, 2019). Considerations regarding sample size, therefore, must account for both the temporal design in which the target processes will be observed and the number of participants.…”

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Making the black box transparent: A template and tutorial for (pre-)registration of studies using Experience Sampling Methods (ESM)

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A growing interest in understanding complex and dynamic psychological processes as they occur in everyday life has led to an increase in studies using Ambulatory Assessment techniques, including the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) and Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA). There are, however, numerous “forking paths” and researcher degrees of freedom, even beyond those typically encountered with other research methodologies. Whilst a number of researchers working with ESM techniques are actively engaged in efforts to increase the methodological rigor and transparency of such research, currently, there is little routine implementation of open science practices in ESM research. In the current paper, we discuss the ways in which ESM research is especially vulnerable to threats to transparency, reproducibility and replicability. We propose that greater use of (pre-)registration, a cornerstone of open science, may address some of these threats to the transparency of ESM research. (Pre-)registration of ESM research is not without challenges, including model selection, accounting for potential model convergence issues and the use of pre-existing datasets. As these may prove to be significant barriers to (pre-)registration for ESM researchers, we also discuss ways of overcoming these challenges and of documenting them in a (pre-)registration. A further challenge is that current general templates do not adequately capture the unique features of ESM. Here we present a (pre-)registration template for ESM research, adapted from the original Pre-Registration Challenge (Mellor et al., 2019) and pre-registration of pre-existing data (van den Akker et al., 2020) templates, and provide examples of how to complete this.

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Testing the structure and process of personality using ambulatory assessment data: An overview of within-person and person-specific techniques.

Cited by 38 publications

References 67 publications

Personality and Party Ideology Among Politicians. A Closer Look at Political Elites From Canada and Belgium

Personality and Party Ideology Among Politicians. A Closer Look at Political Elites From Canada and Belgium

The Personality Panorama: Conceptualizing Personality through Big Behavioural Data

Making the black box transparent: A template and tutorial for (pre-)registration of studies using Experience Sampling Methods (ESM)

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