Date of Award
5-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Psychology
Committee Member
Fred Switzer, Committee Chair
Committee Member
Patrick Rosopa
Committee Member
Mary Anne Taylor
Abstract
A problem that has arisen in the field of personality psychology is that while personality traits are related to outcome variables, the predictive validity of these associations is low to medium (Rosenthal, 1994; Rosnow & Rosenthal, 1989). One of the reasons for this is because personality has traditionally been defined as something generalizable across situations and time. This generalizability across situations and time is called the invariance of personality (Mischel, 2004). We argue that personality is stable at a different level of analysis, and that level of analysis is the specific context, but not stable across different situations. The current study looked at a fully contextualized personality measure and compared it to a non-contextualized measure of the same personality trait/facets to assess whether incremental validity can be gained by targeting specific situations. Results show that despite the presence of nuisance factors for both general and academic conscientiousness that the contextualized measure showed incremental validity.
Recommended Citation
Ligato, Joseph, "The Importance of Contextualized, Facet-Level Personality Measures" (2019). All Theses. 3053.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/3053