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- Title
Variability of self-description on a day-to-day basis: longitudinal use of the adjective generation technique.
- Authors
Allen, Bem P.; Potkay, Charles R.; Allen, B P; Potkay, C R
- Abstract
Intraindividual variability has received considerable research attention over the past two decades. Mood, self-esteem, and self-concept all have exhibited change a result of experimentally manipulated or natural events. Even though mood may have a direct effect on the probabilities of occurrence of responses in certain situations, self-descriptive concepts such as mood often are looked upon by trait theorists as interfering with the reliability and consistency of a test measure. Similarly, repeated demonstrations of considerable variability of responses within subjects over time might require some restructuring of conceptual frameworks for understanding personality functioning. A few notable exceptions to the neglect of longitudinal research studies in self-description have appeared in the literature. In view of the general paucity of long term self description research, the basic goal of the present study was to present a self-description measure, the Adjective Generation Technique (AGT), which because it involves possible solutions to some of the methodological, logistical, and conceptual problems of self-descriptive measures employed in the past, may stimulate longer term research in the future. This technique allows for longitudinal assessment of self-description and may be viewed as practical on even a daily basis. The AGT basically involves having the subject spontaneously generate five adjectives that according to him would best describe himself, or some stimulus person.
- Subjects
DIFFERENTIAL psychology; MOOD (Psychology); SELF-esteem; PROBABILITY theory; PERSONALITY; ADJECTIVE generation technique
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1973, Vol 41, Issue 4, p638
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1973.tb00115.x