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Personality Certainty: Increasing the Predictive Utility of Personality Inventories

Shoots-Reinhard, Brittany
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337350429

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Psychology.
Previous research on personality has identified a number of variables that influence the predictive utility of personality scales. Research on attitude strength, however, points to at least one potentially important factor that has been heretofore overlooked: the certainty with which people make their responses. The present research establishes that the certainty with which people respond to personality scales is associated with stability of the personality scale responses over time and correspondence between the scale and related judgments and behaviors. In addition, the effects of certainty hold when controlling for a number of previously established personality to behavior moderators. This research suggests that measuring certainty in answers to personality scales might be a particularly useful and efficient way to increase the predictive utility of personality scales. This is demonstrated with need for cognition (Study 1), self-monitoring (Study 2), political ideology (Study 3), and openness to experience (Study 4) using college student samples.
Richard Petty, PhD (Advisor)
Kentaro Fujita (Committee Member)
Duane T. Wegener (Committee Member)
Personality Psychology; Social Psychology
personality assessment; metacogntion; individual differences; attitude certainty

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  • Shoots-Reinhard, B. (2012). Personality Certainty: Increasing the Predictive Utility of Personality Inventories [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337350429

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shoots-Reinhard, Brittany. Personality Certainty: Increasing the Predictive Utility of Personality Inventories. 2012. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337350429.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shoots-Reinhard, Brittany. "Personality Certainty: Increasing the Predictive Utility of Personality Inventories." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337350429

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