Personality Structure and Assessment

Validación en México del inventario de ajuste de Weinberger -WAI-

“…Sin embargo, la naturaleza de la estructura y organización de una persona que inhibe sus emociones es limitada. 21,22 Esto se debe a que se han acumulado resultados de las dimensiones que integran la inhibición emocional de forma aislada (i.e., depresión, impulsividad, asertividad), sin tomar en cuenta cómo aumentan estos atributos la probabilidad de comportamientos patogénicos o inmunogénicos. [23][24][25][26][27] Weinberger 27 ha empleado una perspectiva integral para desarrollar un inventario que evalúa el ajuste socioemocional, el cual tiene dos dimensiones: a) La dimensión afectiva o experiencia subjetiva del distrés, que proporciona una medida general de las tendencias de los individuos a sentirse insatisfechos con ellos mismos.…”

The person as a focus for research. The contributions of Windelband, Stern, Allport, Lamiell and Magnusson

“…(Lamiell, 1981, p. 286) Lamiell can be said to take Allport's model a step further by the ambition not only to establish lawful principles of functioning at the level of the individual, but also to use idiographic research to find general principles applicable to human beings in general. Although Lamiell's (1981) paper was characterized by Rorer and Widiger (1983) as "the single most important paper" (p. 448) on theoretical issues in personality psychology that had been published during recent years, however, it seems to have had little influence on personality research. Also, during the last decades Lamiell has concentrated his efforts more on theoretical questions in the study of personality, and on studies of the history of psychology, than on the empirical development of his idiothetic approach.…”

Personality and social psychology: towards a synthesis

“…Elaborating on these issues, Rorer and Widiger (1983) note that traits differ in terms of their base-rates as well as the 'ascription rules' associated with them. For example, only very few positive instances, such as attacking a policeman during a rally, are sufficient to ascribe the trait 'violent' to a person, whereas negative evidence, such as the failure to observe violent behaviours, would not be enough to characterize the person as non-violent or even peaceable.…”

“…Among the nomothetic contributions to personality measurement documented in several reviews (for example, Carson, 1989;Pervin 1985;Rorer and Widiger, 1983;West, 1986a), three approaches are particularly relevant to the debate on the cross-situational consistency of behaviour and its attempted resolution in the interactionist model. These approaches, which offer complementary not competing strategies to improve the reliability and validity of trait measures and their reflection in behaviour, will be introduced in the remainder of this chapter.…”