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Personality Judgments in Adolescents' Families: The Perceiver, the Target, Their Relationship, and the Family
Author(s) -
Branje Susan J. T.,
Van Aken Marcel A. G.,
Van Lieshout Cornelis F. M.,
Mathijssen Jolanda J. J. P.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.t01-1-00001
Subject(s) - psychology , agreeableness , personality , social psychology , conscientiousness , personality psychology , big five personality traits , relevance (law) , developmental psychology , social perception , variance (accounting) , perception , extraversion and introversion , neuroscience , political science , law , business , accounting
The present study investigated whether personality judgments involve different processes in a family setting than in a nonfamily setting. We used the Social Relations Model to distinguish the effects of perceiver, target, perceiver‐target relationship, and family on personality judgments. Family members of families with adolescents judged their own and the other members' Big Five factors. Judgments were found to depend on the relevance of personality factors within the family setting: Agreeableness and Conscientiousness were judged most consistently. Large relationship variance indicated that parents adjust their judgments to the target family member; large perceiver variance indicated that adolescents judge family members' personalities rather similarly. However, a comparison of self‐ and other‐judgments showed adolescents' judgments to be no more related to their self‐perceptions than parents' judgments. We concluded that the relevance of personality factors may differ on specific tasks within a setting.