Consistency, Scalability, and Personality Measurement [Paperback]

In the last 25 years, there is no issue in personality psychology which has been as hotly debated as that of consistency. This book introduces scalability as a reasonable and theoretically satisfying conceptualization of consistency. Three empirical studies of scalability are described; their focus is on the role of scalability as a moderator in prediction. This book makes significant inroads in the field of personality measurement, and, by reviewing previous approaches to personality assessment, it provides a sound theoretical basis for the description and mapping of personalities.1 Personality Traits and Psychological Explanation.- 1.1 Personality traits as psychological structures.- 1.2 Personality traits as psychological constructs.- 1.3 Structures versus constructs.- 1.4 Models of explanation.- 1.5 How traits can explain behavior.- 1.6 Implications.- 2 Consistency in Personality Measurement.- 2.1 Actor and observer viewpoints.- 2.2 Empirical studies of consistency: Overview.- 2.3 Consistency as a moderator variable.- 2.4 Consistency as scalability.- 2.5 Summary.- 3 Scalability and Elevation.- 3.1 Elevation.- 3.2 Scalability.- 3.3 Some statistical properties of elevation and scalability.- 3.4 Anticipated relations among measures of elevation, scalability, and variability.- 3.5 Scalability and response idiosyncrasy.- 3.6 Why measure scalability?.- 4 A Single Trait Measure of Scalability.- 4.1 Overview.- 4.2 Pretest: Scaling of behaviors.- 4.3 Main study.- 4.4 Discussion.- 5 Development of the Situation Behavior Inventory.- 5.1 Sampling considerations.- 5.2 Iterative refinement of the SBI.- 5.3 Scaling of behaviors.- 5.4 Summary.- 6 Scalability and Elevation as Measured by the SBI.- 6.1 Methods.- 6.2 Scoring and scale construction.- 6.3 Results - Internal analyses.- 6.4 Results - External analyses.- 6.5 Discussion.- 7 Scalability on Standard Personality Inventories.- 7.1 Four interpretations of individual differences in consistency.- 7.2 Distinguishing between diflÃ