Personality Matched Across Media In A Large High-School Sample.

Area of Science:

• Psychology
• Adolescent Development
• Personality Assessment

Background:

• Understanding adolescent personality development is crucial.
• Differentiating between self-report questionnaires and objective-analytic measures is important for construct validation.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate the alignment between second-stratum factors from the High-School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ) and first-stratum factors from the Objective-Analytic (O-A) Test Kit.
• To determine the convergent and discriminant validity of personality constructs in adolescent boys.

Main Methods:

• Administered Forms A and B of the HSPQ and the complete O-A Test Kit to 840 boys aged 12-18.
• Analyzed the data to assess the relationships between questionnaire-derived factors and O-A test factors.

Main Results:

• A salient relationship was found between Anxiety (Q11) from the HSPQ and U124 (Anxiety) from the O-A data.
• Other notable relationships included Exvia (Q1) with U121 (Exuberance) and Tough Poise (Q111/Cortertia) with U125 (Realism).

Conclusions:

• The findings provide partial support for the alignment of personality constructs measured by self-report and objective-analytic methods in adolescents.
• Anxiety appears to be a robust construct across different assessment modalities in this age group.