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Wright, Aidan G. C.; Pincus, Aaron L.; Hopwood, Christopher J.; Thomas, Katherine M.; Markon, Kristian E.; Krueger, Robert F. – Assessment, 2012
The proposed changes to the personality disorder section of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (5th ed.) places an increased focus on interpersonal impairment as one of the defining features of personality psychopathology. In addition, a proposed trait model has been offered to provide a means of capturing…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Psychopathology, Interpersonal Relationship
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Schmitt, Neal; Golubovich, Juliya; Leong, Frederick T. L. – Assessment, 2011
The impact of measurement invariance and the provision for partial invariance in confirmatory factor analytic models on factor intercorrelations, latent mean differences, and estimates of relations with external variables is investigated for measures of two sets of widely assessed constructs: Big Five personality and the six Holland interests…
Descriptors: Computation, Factor Analysis, Personality Traits, Psychological Studies
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Adams, Ryan S.; Tracey, Terence J. G. – Assessment, 2004
The Interpersonal Adjective Scales (IAS) is a well-supported instrument that is designed to map interpersonal traits onto the interpersonal circumplex. However, three versions of the IAS exist and these vary with respect to the degree to which they included item definitions (i.e., glossary added at the end, definitions attached to each item, and…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Models, Personality Traits
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Laidra, Kaia; Allik, Juri; Harro, Maarike; Merenakk, Liis; Harro, Jaanus – Assessment, 2006
Agreement between adolescents, mothers, fathers, and teachers on adolescents' personality traits was investigated in a longitudinal study. The targets for personality ratings were the adolescents who participated in the European Youth Heart Study in Estonia. There were 593 participants in the first wave and 480 participants in the follow-up study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Personality Traits, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries