How are Personality Trait and Profile Agreement Related?

It is argued that if we compute self-other agreement on some personality traits then we possess no or very little information about the individuals who are the targets of this judgment. This idea is largely based on two separate ways of computing self-other agreement: trait agreement (rT) and profil...

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Main Authors: Jüri eAllik, Peter eBorkenau, Martina eHřebíčková, Peter eKuppens, Anu eRealo
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00785/full
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spelling doaj-a0e1aa9e64f145688260cb731b9619d02020-11-25T00:20:57ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-06-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00785144922How are Personality Trait and Profile Agreement Related?Jüri eAllik0Peter eBorkenau1Martina eHřebíčková2Peter eKuppens3Anu eRealo4University of TartuMartin-Luther-Universität Halle-WittenbergAcademy of Sciences of the Czech RepublicKatholieke Universiteit LeuvenUniversity of TartuIt is argued that if we compute self-other agreement on some personality traits then we possess no or very little information about the individuals who are the targets of this judgment. This idea is largely based on two separate ways of computing self-other agreement: trait agreement (rT) and profile agreement (rP), which are typically associated with two different trait-centered and person-centered approaches in personality research. Personality traits of 4,115 targets from Czech, Belgian, Estonian, and German samples were rated by themselves and knowledgeable informants. We demonstrate that trait agreement can be partialled into individual contributions so that it is possible to show how much each individual pair of judges contributes to agreement on a particular trait. Similarly, it is possible to decompose agreement between two personality profiles into the individual contributions of traits from which these profiles are assembled. If normativeness is separated from distinctiveness of personality scores and individual profiles are ipsatized, then mean profile agreement r ̅_P becomes identical to mean trait agreement r ̅_T. The views that trait-by-trait analysis does not provide information regarding accuracy level of a particular pair of judges and profile analysis does not permit assessment of the relative contributions of traits to overall accuracy are not supported.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00785/fullself-other agreementtrait-centered approachvariabl-centered approachAsendorpf's indexRank Consistency Index
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author Jüri eAllik
Peter eBorkenau
Martina eHřebíčková
Peter eKuppens
Anu eRealo
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Peter eBorkenau
Martina eHřebíčková
Peter eKuppens
Anu eRealo
How are Personality Trait and Profile Agreement Related?
Frontiers in Psychology
self-other agreement
trait-centered approach
variabl-centered approach
Asendorpf's index
Rank Consistency Index
author_facet Jüri eAllik
Peter eBorkenau
Martina eHřebíčková
Peter eKuppens
Anu eRealo
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title How are Personality Trait and Profile Agreement Related?
title_short How are Personality Trait and Profile Agreement Related?
title_full How are Personality Trait and Profile Agreement Related?
title_fullStr How are Personality Trait and Profile Agreement Related?
title_full_unstemmed How are Personality Trait and Profile Agreement Related?
title_sort how are personality trait and profile agreement related?
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Psychology
issn 1664-1078
publishDate 2015-06-01
description It is argued that if we compute self-other agreement on some personality traits then we possess no or very little information about the individuals who are the targets of this judgment. This idea is largely based on two separate ways of computing self-other agreement: trait agreement (rT) and profile agreement (rP), which are typically associated with two different trait-centered and person-centered approaches in personality research. Personality traits of 4,115 targets from Czech, Belgian, Estonian, and German samples were rated by themselves and knowledgeable informants. We demonstrate that trait agreement can be partialled into individual contributions so that it is possible to show how much each individual pair of judges contributes to agreement on a particular trait. Similarly, it is possible to decompose agreement between two personality profiles into the individual contributions of traits from which these profiles are assembled. If normativeness is separated from distinctiveness of personality scores and individual profiles are ipsatized, then mean profile agreement r ̅_P becomes identical to mean trait agreement r ̅_T. The views that trait-by-trait analysis does not provide information regarding accuracy level of a particular pair of judges and profile analysis does not permit assessment of the relative contributions of traits to overall accuracy are not supported.
topic self-other agreement
trait-centered approach
variabl-centered approach
Asendorpf's index
Rank Consistency Index
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00785/full
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