Assessing Validity and Bias of Within-Person Variability in Affect and Personality

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Abstract

Within-person variability in affect (e.g., Neuroticism) and personality have been linked to well-being. These are measured either by asking people to report how variable they are or to give multiple reports on the construct and calculating a within-person standard deviation adjusted for confounding by the person-level mean. The two measures are weakly correlated with one another and the links of variability with well-being depend on which measure researchers use. Recent research suggests that people’s repeated ratings may be biased by response styles. In a 7-day study (N = 399) with up to five measurements per day, we confirmed that the measures of variability lacked sufficient convergent validity to be used interchangeably. We found only 1 significant correlation (of 10) between variability in repeated ratings of affect or personality and variability in repeated ratings of a theoretically unrelated construct (i.e., features of images). There was very little evidence supporting the response styles hypothesis.

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
FachzeitschriftPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Jahrgang2023
Frühes Online-Datum22 Nov. 2023
PublikationsstatusElektronische Veröffentlichung vor Drucklegung - 22 Nov. 2023
Peer-Review-StatusJa

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Mendeley e8acaaa0-5a15-33af-8888-6ff48250a6bc
ORCID /0000-0003-0915-0809/work/150329856

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Schlagwörter

  • emotions, measurement, neuroticism, personality, variability

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