Contextualized personality assessment: an exploration of objective and subjective situation properties associated with behavioral consistency and situation specific behavior.

• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20000049

Current social and personality psychology perspectives agree that behavior is determined by the interaction between characteristics of persons and situations. However, theoretical and empirical progress towards understanding what constitutes a "situation" and how behavior is systematically related to situation variables is limited (Funder, 2001; Funder, 2006; Hogan, 2005; Pervin, 1976; Roberts, 2007). To address this issue, the current research developed a contextualized personality assessment procedure to measure both objective and subjective properties of social situations, as well as social behavior manifested in those situations.