Simms Leonard J, Zelazny Kerry, Yam Wern How, Gros Daniel F
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, NY, USA.
Eur J Pers. 2010 May 1;24(3):207-221. doi: 10.1002/per.763.
Little attention typically is paid to the way self-report measures are translated for use in self-informant agreement studies. We studied two possible methods for creating informant measures: (a) the traditional method in which self-report items were translated from the first- to the third-person and (b) an alternative meta-perceptual method in which informants were directed to rate their perception of the targets' self-perception. We hypothesized that the latter method would yield stronger self-informant agreement for evaluative personality dimensions measured by indirect item markers. We studied these methods in a sample of 303 undergraduate friendship dyads. Results revealed mean-level differences between methods, similar self-informant agreement across methods, stronger agreement for Big Five dimensions than for evaluative dimensions, and incremental validity for meta-perceptual informant rating methods. Limited power reduced the interpretability of several sparse acquaintanceship effects. We conclude that traditional informant methods are appropriate for most personality traits, but meta-perceptual methods may be more appropriate when personality questionnaire items reflect indirect indicators of the trait being measured, which is particularly likely for evaluative traits.
通常很少有人关注自我报告测量方法在自我信息提供者一致性研究中的翻译方式。我们研究了两种创建信息提供者测量方法的可能途径：（a）传统方法，即将自我报告项目从第一人称转换为第三人称；（b）一种替代性的元感知方法，即指导信息提供者对他们对目标自我认知的感知进行评分。我们假设，后一种方法对于通过间接项目标记测量的评价性人格维度，会产生更强的自我信息提供者一致性。我们在一个由303对本科友谊二元组组成的样本中研究了这些方法。结果显示了不同方法之间的平均水平差异、不同方法间相似的自我信息提供者一致性、大五人格维度的一致性强于评价性维度，以及元感知信息提供者评分方法的增量效度。有限的功效降低了几种稀疏相识效应的可解释性。我们得出结论，传统的信息提供者方法适用于大多数人格特质，但当人格问卷项目反映所测量特质的间接指标时，元感知方法可能更合适，这在评价性特质中尤为可能。
