PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Predictive Validity, Conscientiousness, Surgency
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Personality and mate preferences: five factors in mate selection and marital. They did not compromise: personality characteristics of one"s partner significantly predicted martial and sexual dissatisfaction, most notably when the partner was lower than desired on agreeableness, emotional stability, and. Were no differences in neuroticism or extraversion. Issues in personality assessment: links among different data sources, fallibility of personality measurement, all sources of data have limitations, results that replicated through triangulation are most powerful. If you have consistency across multiple methods, you can have a lot of confidence in your results. Not much confidence if the three methods gave different results. Problem is that using more than one method involves recruiting more people, more resources, need more time, might need to make adjustments. Evaluation of personality measures: reliability, validity, generalizability. Reliability: degree to which measures represents true level of trait being measured, types of reliability, test-retest reliability: scores at one administration positively correlate with scored at second administration.
