Department of Psychology.
Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology.
Psychol Assess. 2019 Apr;31(4):545-556. doi: 10.1037/pas0000635. Epub 2019 Mar 14.
Recent research has illustrated the utility and accuracy of a thin-slice (TS) approach to child personality assessment, whereby unacquainted observers provide personality ratings of children after exposure to brief behavioral episodes. The current study sought to expand on this approach by exploring formal multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) models for child TS data comprising ratings from a comprehensive set of TS situations. Results using data from a sample of 326 community children 9-10 years of age indicated that a correlated traits, correlated methods (CTCM) model can be used to represent individual differences in children's behavior as manifest across different situations. Indicator variables derived from a CTCM differentially correlated with traditional parental ratings of behavior, moreover, and provide predictive and incremental validity regarding child competencies and behavior. Results illustrate the utility of a TS approach in the assessment of childhood personality and inform understanding of issues encountered in applying different MTMM models to these types of empirical data. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
最近的研究表明，薄片（TS）方法在儿童个性评估中的实用性和准确性，即不熟悉的观察者在接触简短的行为片段后，对儿童的个性进行评价。本研究通过探索包括来自全面的 TS 情境的评价在内的儿童 TS 数据的正式多特质-多方法（MTMM）模型，对该方法进行了扩展。使用来自 326 名社区儿童（9-10 岁）的样本数据的结果表明，可以使用相关特质、相关方法（CTCM）模型来表示不同情境中表现出的儿童行为的个体差异。此外，源自 CTCM 的指标变量与传统的父母行为评价有差异相关，并且在儿童能力和行为方面具有预测和增量有效性。结果说明了 TS 方法在儿童个性评估中的实用性，并为理解在这些类型的实证数据中应用不同的 MTMM 模型时遇到的问题提供了信息。（心理学文摘数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
