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Metatraits and self-schemata: same or different?
1Air Force Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX 78235-5352, USA.
Journal of Personality
|November 5, 1998
Summary
Individuals high in traitedness and those with strong self-schemas respond faster to trait words. This study explored the relationship between these personality moderators and behavioral predictability.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Personality Psychology
Background:
- Traitedness and self-schemata are proposed moderators of personality trait-behavior relationships.
- Highly traited or schematic individuals are considered more behaviorally predictable.
Purpose of the Study:
- To compare the similarity between measures of traitedness and self-schemata.
- To test if traited individuals exhibit quicker responses to self-descriptive trait words.
Main Methods:
- Administered a personality inventory to 389 military recruits.
- Calculated traitedness scores from response variability.
- Computed self-schema scores using response latencies.
Main Results:
- Traitedness and self-schema scores were significantly, though moderately, correlated.
- Supported the hypothesis that traited individuals respond faster to self-descriptive trait words.
Conclusions:
- Traitedness and self-schema measures show modest convergent validity.
- Further research is needed to establish divergent validity between these personality moderators.