A preliminary test of role-playing ability.

McClelland, William A.

doi:10.1037/h0055957

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“…Studies using the MMPI support the results quoted above: the ability of clinical psychologists to predict the inventory responses of their patients correlated negatively with their scores on the Pt scale (41); good judges (undergraduates) on Dymond's empathy test (43) tended to be low on Pd, Pa, Pt, and Sc, and psychology graduate students who were rated high by their peers on "role-playing ability" (nonanalytic ?) also were low on these latter scales and on the D scale (46).…”

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“…None of the other five reported experiments (46,56,64,69,71) which compare the ability of males and females either to rate their 5's traits or to predict their responses found significant differences. It is also interesting to note that no relationship was found between the ability of males on these types of tests of judging and their scores on inventory and projective tests of femininity (67).…”

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“…A few miscellaneous techniques should also be mentioned, although studies based on them, in general, fall outside the scope of this review. Most of these techniques employ indices that attempt to measure the ability to judge others in an indirect manner, e.g., Dymond's empathy index on the TAT (17), Walton's generalized empathy test (76), and McClelland's "role-playing ability" scale (46). Even more remote are the tests devised by Chapin (15), Moreno and Moreno (49), Sherriffs (61), Moss Social Intelligence Test (50 used in 73).…”

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The ability to judge people.

Taft¹

1955

Psychological Bulletin

296

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What are the factors related to the ability to judge accurately such behavioral characteristics as the abilities, traits, action tendencies, motives, and emotions of other people? 2 Are there some persons who consistently demonstrate good ability to judge others accurately and, if so, what are the correlates of such ability? These are the general questions to which this review is addressed. The practical importance of the above questions in psychology is obvious, especially when we consider the role of the psychologist's personality in determining the validity of the observations and inferences with which he works. METHODS OF MEASURING ABILITYTO JUDGE OTHERS The number of differing methods of measuring ability to judge others that have been used in the experiments in this area may partly account for the varied and sometimes conflicting results found. The distinction between analytic and non-1 The major part of this review was prepared by the writer while he was a research assistant at the Institute of Personality Assessment at the University of California. He wishes to thank Professors D. W. MacKinnon and T. R. Sarbin for their advice and assistance which have been given unstintingly.3 The review is confined to judgments about the emotional, personality, and behavioral characteristics of others, not their physical or sociological characteristics.

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The ability to judge people.

Taft¹

1955

Psychological Bulletin

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“…The Role-Playing scale of the MMPI (Dahlstrom & Welsh, 1960) is a 31-item true-false scale tapping the ability to exchange roles, or empathic ability. Specifically, McClelland's (1951) definition is that it "refers to the capacity with which a person can perceive and act out organized behaviors and roles" (i.e., putting himself in someone else's position). Split-half reliability of the criterion (multiple student ratings of role-playing ability) was .66; the test-retest reliability was .69 over a 1-mo.…”

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Relation of a trainability index to T-group outcomes.

Pino¹

1971

Journal of Applied Psychology

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The ability to screen potential T-group members by a relatively incomplex test procedure could prove to be an asset in the area of human relations training. A trainability index is provided by a combination of scores on Thelen's Reaction to Group Situations Test. Trainability indexes were calculated, and self-disclosures and empathy ratings were measured previous to and following sensitivity training of two groups-psychiatric aides and Office of Economic Opportunity aides. Positive relationships between trainability and the two T-group outcome measures (openness and empathy) were found for both T groups. This provides further validation for the trainability index in human service professions.1 The author would like to thank Lawrence Whisler for his help in collecting data at Chicago State Hospital.

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“…Recent research has suggested that role playing or empathic ability is related to general adjustment. Working with college populations, a number of investigators (Dymond, 1948(Dymond, , 1949(Dymond, , 1950Lindgren & Robinson, 1953;McClelland, 1951;Norman & Ainsworth, 1954) have found that better adjusted students play roles and empathize with greater facility than those who are less well adjusted. By logical extension it might be assumed that "normals" generally are more skilled in this function than neurotics and psychotics.…”

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