2012
DOI: 10.1037/a0027403
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An evaluation of the consequences of using short measures of the Big Five personality traits.

Abstract: Researchers often use very abbreviated (e.g., 1-item, 2-item) measures of personality traits due to their convenience and ease of use as well as the belief that such measures can adequately capture an individual's personality. Using data from 2 samples (N = 437 employees, N = 355 college students), we show that this practice, particularly the use of single-item measures, can lead researchers to substantially underestimate the role that personality traits play in influencing important behaviors and thereby over… Show more

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“…Os resultados apontaram para um instrumento reduzido com satisfatórias evidências de validade. Contudo, as comparações com o teste de personalidade padronizado permitiram constatar limitações importantes para o instrumento reduzido aqui construído, limitações essas que talvez se apliquem a outros instrumentos reduzidos de mesmo propósito (ver também Credé et al, 2012).…”
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“…Os resultados apontaram para um instrumento reduzido com satisfatórias evidências de validade. Contudo, as comparações com o teste de personalidade padronizado permitiram constatar limitações importantes para o instrumento reduzido aqui construído, limitações essas que talvez se apliquem a outros instrumentos reduzidos de mesmo propósito (ver também Credé et al, 2012).…”
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“…Embora os resultados tenham se mostrado no mesmo sentido para quase todos os fatores, pode-se verificar diferenças acentuadas nos tamanhos de efeito. Considerando-se a BFP o instrumento padrão-ouro nesta pesquisa, essas discrepâncias de tamanho de efeito denotam a fragilidade da Red5 e salientam as chances de ocorrerem erros de inferência utilizando-se medidas reduzidas, como também ressaltaram Credé et al (2012).…”
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“…For the selected 5 judges per clip, the detailed results with respect to different communication conditions and tasks are presented in Table I-a, where α values that indicate sufficient reliability for the BFI-10 (greater than 0.5, in line with values reported in the literature [32]) are highlighted in bold. To compare α values between communication conditions we follow the method suggested by Feldt et al [33]: 95% confidence intervals are calculated for each α value, and if the value from one condition falls outside the confidence intervals from a condition it is being compared to, this suggests it is significantly less consistent.…”
Section: B Within-judge Consistencymentioning
confidence: 81%
“…The average value across all tasks was lower than we expected (less than 0.5), indicating some judges answer randomly. With no low-quality judges, we would expect values for the AV clips greater than 0.5, i.e., in line with values reported in the literature for the BFI-10 with video clips assessed by online judges [32]. We therefore used a judge selection method to remove these additional low-quality judges.…”
Section: A Elimination Of Low-quality Judgesmentioning
confidence: 87%