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Analyzing Consensus to Personality Judgments: A Variance Components Approach
Author(s) -
Shrout Patrick E.
Publication year - 1993
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/j.1467-6494.1993.tb00790.x
Subject(s) - generalizability theory , psychology , variance (accounting) , personality , social psychology , big five personality traits , affect (linguistics) , common method variance , developmental psychology , accounting , communication , business
Although peer raters of personality traits do tend to agree, the strength of their consensus is often modest. This article focuses on methods for analyzing determinants of consensus. Variance components methods adapted from generalizability theory have some untapped potential for understanding gradations in consensus. The methods allow explicit analysis of how social categories of targets might affect judgments of raters from the same or different social categories. Limitations of the variance components approach are also discussed. The methods are illustrated with artificial data.