Effect of Acquaintanceship on Accuracy of Person Perception

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 819-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisa Cloyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Check List ◽  
Vocational Interest ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Response Set ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Assumed Similarity

Accuracy, assumed similarity, and actual similarity were assessed for an acquaintance and a stranger target selected by the subject. Four standardized questionnaires were used to obtain separate estimates of each variable, Cattell's 16 PF test, Gough's Adjective Check List, the Abilities and Characteristics Scale of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, and Bernreuter's Personality Inventory. All measures showed significant differences in the predicted direction for accuracy and no significant between-target differences for assumed similarity or actual similarity. The Adjective Check List proved to be very susceptible to social desirability response set and produced accuracy scores that were strongly associated with assumed similarity. On the other measures, accuracy scores were relatively independent of assumed similarity, suggesting that these instruments are suitable for studies of person perception.

Measuring Need to Achieve by n Ach-n Aff Scale—A Forced-Choice Questionnaire

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 907-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Clay Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
Need For Affiliation ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Expectant Mothers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Bank Tellers

To measure the need to achieve (n Ach), a questionnaire was constructed which required the subject to make a forced choice on each of 30 pairs of adjectives. Half the adjectives were based on the Need for Achievement scale and the other half on the Need for Affiliation scale of Gough's Adjective Check List. When the questionnaire was scored in the n Ach direction, differences between sex and age groupings of college students were negligible and nonsignificant, but scores for males were positively and significantly correlated with grades on midterms and GPA, whereas correlations for female students were low, positive, and significant only at the 10% level. Bank tellers' n Ach scores correlated positively with supervisors' ratings and were significantly lower than those of college students. Expectant mothers were the lowest scoring group on n Ach, while male Chinese-speaking immigrants under 30 scored the highest. Results were considered to be consistent with previous research and with expectations based on common sense and everyday impressions.

The Image of a Physical Education Teacher as Seen by School Community

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Rutkowska ◽  
Mirosław Zalech
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
School Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Physical Education Teacher ◽  
Check List ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Upper Secondary Schools

Abstract The aim of the research was to get to know the image of physical education (PE) teachers as seen by themselves and to compare it with how it is perceived by school community. The study included 148 teachers and 171 final-year students from upper-secondary schools. As a result of purposive sampling and random-purposive sampling, three groups were distinguished. The groups included PE teachers (n=22), teachers of other subjects (n=22) and students (n=22). The data were gathered using ACL-37 (Adjective Check List) developed by G. Gough and A. B. Heilbrun. The findings revealed a number of significant differences between how PE teachers perceive themselves and how they are seen by their students and colleagues (teachers of other subjects). It turned out that PE teachers perceive themselves in a more positive manner than the other groups.

Self-Descriptive Adjectives Associated with a Jungian Personality Inventory

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin R. Brooks ◽  
Ray W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Check List ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Intuitive Thinking ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Males And Females

The purpose of this paper was to provide information which might prove useful in the interpretation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. A sample of 209 students provided self-descriptions from the adjectives on the Adjective Check List and took the Myers-Briggs. On the basis of Myers-Briggs scores the sample was divided by sex into groups of extraverts and introverts, sensing and intuitive, thinking and feeling, and judging and perceiving types. Adjectives characteristic of males and females in each group were derived by means of chi-square.

Response Set in a Check List Test: A Sometimes Thing

1969 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 773-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Zuckerman
Keyword(s):  
Total Sample ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
Affect Adjective

This study was done to assess the influence of a response set, number of items checked, in the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL). In some previous studies, the response set was moderately correlated with the total scale scores of Anxiety, Depression, and Hostility, but in other studies the correlations were minimal. Ss were 432 male and 614 female undergraduates from colleges in the East, Midwest, and West. In the total sample, the number of items checked correlated low, but significantly, with the total scale scores. However, the magnitude of the correlations varied considerably among the three regional samples.

Psychological Dynamics and Self-Perceptions of Vasectomy Candidates

1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 1004-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Hamersma ◽  
Clarke Miller ◽  
Thomas Anderegg ◽  
Bonnie Rudolph
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Tubal Ligation ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Check List ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Irreversible Nature

Growing concern with population control has focused attention on various methods of contraception including vasectomy. Psychological research on this topic is scant, however. In this study, 9 vasectomy candidates who were undergoing the operation were compared to 9 husbands whose wives were about to have a tubal ligation. Their responses on the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale and the Adjective Check List were compared. Most of the data showed no significant differences except on one scale of Counseling Readiness. The results, and others, indicate that vasectomy candidates may have a tendency to deny the anxiety connected with the operation due to its irreversible nature.

scholarly journals Eysenck Personality Inventory: Impulsivity/Neuroticism and Social Desirability Response Set

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veena Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
The State ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Fake Good ◽  
Indian Students

The Hindi version of the Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Trait scale of the Hindi version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were administered to 945 female Indian students ( M age = 20.4 yr., SD = 1.4) to study the personalities of those scoring low and high on the Lie scale, and the association of Lie scale scores in the intercorrelation between Impulsivity and Neuroticism under no motivation to fake good. The group with low scores on the Lie scale had lower scores on Impulsivity and higher scores on Neuroticism and Trait Anxiety than a group scoring high on the Lie scale. No association of Lie scale scores was observed with scores on Extraversion. Lie scale scores were differentially associated with scores on Impulsivity and Neuroticism. The need to consider the Lie scale in addition to other scales in studies of personality is emphasised.

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