SOME CORRELATES OF THE ORDER IN WHICH PEOPLE THINK OF PERSONALITY TRAITS WHEN ASKED TO LIST THEM.

Autor: Shipley, Walter C., Aldrich, Betsy, Boyd, Sara
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Zdroj: Journal of Social Psychology; May1957, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p255-259, 5p
Abstrakt: Each of 48 women college students listed personality traits for five minutes and then ranked them as they applied to (a) herself, (b) a child she would like to have, and (c) her mother. Rank-difference coefficients of correlation were computed for each S between the original order of listing and each of the rankings, and also among the rankings themselves. The means of these correlations showed low but statistically significant values-in the neighbor- hood of rho = .20-between order of listing and each of the three bases of ranking, and much higher ones-around rho = .60-among the bases them- selves. Further analysis showed commonness of response to be positively related to both order of listing and desirability, and desirability-by implication-to order of listing. The procedure may offer clinical possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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