Personality Assessment via Questionnaires Current Issues in Theory a
ALOIS ANGLEITNER and JERRY S. WIGGINS The personality questionnaire has been with us for more than 60 years. It has been, and still is, the most popular method of personality assessment and it no doubt will continue to be so. The method has been sharply c
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Professor Dr. ALOIS ANGLEITNER Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld UniversitatsstraBe, D-4800 Bielefeld 1 Professor Dr. JERRY S. WIGGINS Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T lW5
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. Main entry under title: Personality assessment via questionnaires. Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. I. Personality questionnaires. 2. Personality assessment. I. Angleitner, A. (Alois) II. Wiggins, Jerry S. BF698.8.P48P47 1985 155.2'83 85-20791 ISBN-13: 978-3-642-70753-7 e-1SBN-13: 978-3-642-70751-3 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-70751-3 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law, where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to "Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort", Mnnich.
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Table of Contents
Introduction. A. ANGLEITNER and J. S. WIGGINS
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I. The Trait Concept and Personality Questionnaires
The Trait Concept: Current Theoretical Considerations, Empirical Facts, and Implications for Personality Inventory Construction. M. AMELANG and P. BORKENAU . . . The Trait Concept and the Personality Questionnaire. D. W. FISKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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II. Item Generation and Scale Construction
Pragmatic Validity to Be Considered for the Construction and Application of Psychological Questionnaires. M. KASTNER. (With 2 Figures) . . . . . . . . . . .
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It's What You Ask and How You Ask It: An Itemmetric Analysis of Personality Questionnaires. A. ANGLEITNER, O. P. JOHN, and F.-J. LOHR . . . . . . . . . .
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Methods of Personality Inventory Development A Comparative Analysis. M. BURISCH. . . . . .
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ID. Models of Item Responding and Self-Presentation
The Process of Responding in Personality Assessment. D. N. JACKSON. (With 11 Figures) . . . . . . . .
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Self-Deception and Impression Management in Test Responses. D. L. PAULHUS. (With 1 Figure) . . .
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Psychometric Models for Analysis of Data from Personality Questionnaires. W. K.
