Department of Psychology, Michigan State University.
Psychol Assess. 2017 Sep;29(9):1142-1156. doi: 10.1037/pas0000417. Epub 2016 Nov 10.
Target-informant agreement about target personality traits can depend on the nature of the traits being considered, whether or not targets or informants are asked to take into account the other's point of view, and the relationship between the informant and the target. This study sought to further explore these patterns by extending existing research in 3 ways in a sample of 335 targets and 548 informants. First, unlike previous research that has focused nearly exclusively on normal range traits with potentially limited clinical relevance or personality disorder categories with questionable validity, we assessed personality using a comprehensive model of maladaptive traits. Second, we gathered 4 sets of ratings: target self-ratings, informant ratings of targets, targets' metaperceptions of how they believe targets would rate them, and informant metaperceptions of how they believe targets would rate themselves. Third, we compared the ratings of informants with different relationships to the targets, including fathers, mothers, siblings, friends, and romantic partners. Results suggest that the degree to which targets and informants agree differs depending on the trait being rated and whether targets or informants metaperceived their trait ratings, and that these differences are particularly apparent when examined within specific kinds of relationships. These results have implications for which informants clinicians might select in clinical personality assessment, as well as for future research on the multimethod assessment of maladaptive traits. (PsycINFO Database Record
目标-知情者对目标个性特征的一致性可能取决于所考虑特征的性质，无论目标或知情者是否被要求考虑对方的观点，以及知情者和目标之间的关系。本研究通过在 335 名目标和 548 名知情者的样本中以 3 种方式扩展现有研究，进一步探索了这些模式。首先，与以前几乎完全专注于潜在临床相关性有限的正常范围特征或有效性值得怀疑的人格障碍类别的研究不同，我们使用适应不良特征的综合模型评估人格。其次，我们收集了 4 组评分：目标自我评分、知情者对目标的评分、目标对自己评分的元认知以及知情者对自己评分的元认知。第三，我们比较了与目标具有不同关系的知情者的评分，包括父母、兄弟姐妹、朋友和浪漫伴侣。结果表明，目标和知情者的一致性程度取决于被评估的特征以及目标或知情者对自己特征评分的元认知，并且这些差异在特定关系内进行检查时尤为明显。这些结果对临床人格评估中临床医生可能选择的知情者有影响，也对适应不良特征的多方法评估的未来研究有影响。
