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Personality Assessment via Questionnaires

Current Issues in Theory and Measurement

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Alois Angleitner

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld 1, Deutschland

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  2. Jerry S. Wiggins

    1. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Alois Angleitner, Jerry S. Wiggins
      Pages 1-3

  3. The Trait Concept and Personality Questionnaires

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Trait Concept: Current Theoretical Considerations, Empirical Facts, and Implications for Personality Inventory Construction

      • Manfred Amelang, Peter Borkenau
      Pages 7-34

    3. The Trait Concept and the Personality Questionnaire

      • Donald W. Fiske
      Pages 35-46

  5. Models of Item Responding and Self-Presentation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Process of Responding in Personality Assessment

      • Douglas N. Jackson
      Pages 123-142

    3. Self-Deception and Impression Management in Test Responses

      • Delroy L. Paulhus
      Pages 143-165

    4. Psychometric Models for Analysis of Data from Personality Questionnaires

      • Willem K. B. Hofstee, Nico G. Smid
      Pages 166-177

    5. On Linguistic Variables Influencing the Understanding of Questionnaire Items

      • Hede Helfrich
      Pages 178-188

  6. Problems of Convergent and Discriminant Validation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Evaluation of Convergent and Discriminant Validity by Use of Structural Equations

      • Ralf Schwarzer
      Pages 191-213

    3. An Example of Convergent and Discriminant Validation of Personality Questionnaires

      • Georg Rudinger, Norbert Dommel
      Pages 214-224

  7. Epilog

    1. Epilog

      • Jerry S. Wiggins
      Pages 225-234

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 235-269
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About this book

ALOIS ANGLEITNER and JERRY S. WIGGINS The personality questionnaire has been with us for more than 60 years. It has been, and still is, the most popular method of personality assessment and it no doubt will continue to be so. The method has been sharply criticized since its inception (e. g. , Allport, 1921; Watson, 1933; Ellis, 1946; Janke, 1973), and this criticism is also likely to continue. The long-standing indifference of test con­ structors to criticisms of their craft is brought home by noting the similarities between objections raised many years ago and those that are offered today (Gynther & Green, 1982). Within this context, one might well ask why a book on personality questionnaires should appear at this time. Despite the centrality of the personality questionnaire to personality as­ sessment, there are, to our knowledge, no recent books on the general topic of personality questionnaires. There are of course books on specific instru­ ments (e. g. , Dahlstrom, Welsh & Dahlstrom, 1972, 1975), books on interpre­ tation of specific instruments (e. g. , Comrey, 1980), and books on specific is­ sues such as response styles (e. g. , Block, 1965). Although not specifically focused on personality questionnaires, Bass and Berg's (1959) Objective Ap­ proaches to Personality Assessment dealt with a number of issues that are cen­ tral to questionnaires.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld 1, Deutschland

    Alois Angleitner

  • Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Jerry S. Wiggins

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Personality Assessment via Questionnaires

  • Book Subtitle: Current Issues in Theory and Measurement

  • Editors: Alois Angleitner, Jerry S. Wiggins

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70751-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-70753-7Published: 15 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-70751-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 270

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology Research, Psychological Methods/Evaluation

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