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AN APPLICATION OF INTER‐PERSON ANALYSIS IN PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT *
Author(s) -
SEMEONOFF BORIS
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1963.tb00863.x
Subject(s) - psychology , praise , personality , selection (genetic algorithm) , homogeneous , sign (mathematics) , social psychology , test (biology) , criticism , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , mathematical analysis , paleontology , art , literature , combinatorics , computer science , biology
A simplified form of factor analysis of persons was applied to test performance in a selection procedure associated with different patterns of two‐part self‐description (i.e. as one might be seen by a friend, and as by a critic). Self‐descriptions containing irrelevant or trivial features were shown to carry, on the whole, predominantly unfavourable implications. In most cases, however, minority groups were characterized by fairly consistent favourable patterns of test performance. Classifications based on the distribution of praise and criticism were also shown, in some cases, to be non‐homogeneous, and no single form of imbalance appeared to be uniformly unfavourable. In particular, role‐reversal, as between the ‘friend’ and the ‘critic’, appeared to be a favourable rather than an unfavourable sign. The use of inter‐person analysis resolved certain anomalies which appeared in earlier studies by showing that these resulted from the mistaken assumption that a given self‐description pattern had constant personality correlates.