Types of Data Used by
Personality Psychologists
Personality Lab
January 25, 2011
Questionnaire Norms
Questionnaire
Center for Epidemiological
Studies Depression (CESD)
Cook Medley Hostility (CMH)
Ego-Control (EC)
Ego-Resiliency (ER)
Introspection (INTRO)
Life-Orientation (LO)
Negative Emotionality (NE)
Gjerde Anxiety Scale (PAN)
Positive Emotionality (PE)
Rosenberg Self-Esteem (RSE)
Self Consciousness Scale
Private Self-Consciousness
Public Self-Consciousness
Social Anxiety
Low
Medium
High
18
38
58
55
63
33
22
22
18
14
20
21
75
87
43
30
34
34
25
32
32
95
111
53
38
46
46
37
44
40
22
14
8
30
21
16
38
28
24
Types of Personality Data (B.L.I.S.)
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L-Data (Life)
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Strengths
Weaknesses
Types of Personality Data (B.L.I.S.)
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I-Data (Informant)
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Strengths
Weaknesses
Types of Personality Data (B.L.I.S.)
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S-Data (Self)
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Strengths
Weaknesses
Below are five statements that you may agree or disagree with.
Using the 1-7 scale below, indicate your agreement with each item
by placing the appropriate number on the line preceding that
item. Please be open and honest in your responding.
7 - Strongly agree
6 - Agree
5 - Slightly agree
4 - Neither agree or disagree
3 - Slightly disagree
2 - Disagree
1 - Strongly disagree
_____1. In most ways my life is close to my ideal.
_____2. The conditions of my life are excellent.
_____3. I am satisfied with my life.
_____4. So far I have gotten the important things I want in
life.
_____5. If I could live my life over, I would change almost
nothing.
Types of Personality Data (B.L.I.S.)
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B-Data (Behavioral)
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Strengths
Weaknesses
Complete the following. Each dash (-) calls for either a
number or a letter to be filled in. Every line is a separate
item. Take the items in order, but don't spend too
much time on any one.
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(1) 1 2 3 4 5 (2) white black short long down - (3) AB BC CD D (4) Z Y X W V U (5) 1 2 3 2 1
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(6) NE/SW SE/NW E/W N/ (7) escape scape cape - - (8) oh ho
rat tar
mood - - - -
(9) A Z B Y C X D (10) tot tot
bard drab
537 - - -
456 - -
Types of Personality Data (B.L.I.S.)
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The Ideal Case
Create Questionnaire
• Select Construct to Measure
• Use PsychInfo to Find 2 Research Articles
Defining Construct
• Define Your Construct
• Select 20 Questionnaire Items
• Determine Response Format
• Use Google Docs Form to Create Questionnaire
• Send to 30 people
Choose Your Construct
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Self-esteem
Depression
Shyness
Positive Affect
Impulsivity
Hostility
Optimism
Anxiety
Happiness
Define the Construct
• The concept of agency pertains to people who characteristically seek
autonomy; they seek to master and assimilate the environment by
striving for individuality and superiority. Highly agentic people
seek self-protection, self-assertion, and self-expansion, and more
generally, are competitive, and achievement-oriented. They identify
and set goals and do what it takes to achieve them. Interpersonally,
they seek success by competing, and not cooperating, with others.
They can be warm and friendly, but this behavior is often used to
achieve goals that are not interpersonally oriented. They strive for
power over others. When the concept is viewed as a personality
dimension, the characteristics associated with the positive pole, i.e.
power, mastery, and assertion, can be contrasted with the
characteristics associated with the negative pole, i.e. passivity,
weakness, failure, and submission.