Personality: Structure and Assessment
Jerry S. Wiggins, Aaron L. Pincus · Annual Review of Psychology · 1992
PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT: THE HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK 504 EXTENSIONS OF CLASSICAL RELIABILITY THEORy 507 Generalizability Theory ... ....... ......... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..... ... ....... ........ ...... 508 Multivariate Approaches to Reliability 509 Person Reliability ....... ..... ..... ..... ..... ......... 510 MODERN CONCEPTIONS OF VALIDITy 511 Upper Limits on Validity ........ ..... ...... 511 Conceptual Clarification ..... ..... ...... 513 TECHNIQUES FOR ASSESSING METHOD VARIANCE 513 Method or Situational Variance? ...... ..... . . ... . .. . . .. ...... ... . 513 Analyzing MultitraitMultimethod Matrices ... . . .... ........ ......... .. .... ..... ... 515 RESEARCH ON PERSONALITY SCALE CONSTRUCTION 517 THE PROCESS OF RESPONDING TO A PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE 519 GENERAL ISSUES IN PERSONALITy 523 Traits, Situations, and Interactions ... . .. ...... ... .. ... ..... 523 Consistency and Predictability of Behavior .... 524 IMPRESSIONS OF PERSONALITY 527 Limitations of Early Research .... . 527 Preconditions for Accurate Judgment 528 Situational Factors Affecting Person Perception . ..... . ..... .. . . . . .... . . . . 529 Cognitive Mediators of Person Perception . 530 Inferences as cognitive abstractions . ... .. .... ....... 530 Inferences as semantic associations 532 Other Factors Producing and Maintaining Bias ..... ... . .. .. .. .... ... ... 534