"""Judgable"" persons: Personality characteristics and construct validation"

"The social interactions that people have with one another often yield a belief that some people are open and knowable and that others are closed and enigmatic. The current study investigated this individual difference characteristic, termed ""judgability,"" and its personality and behavioral correlates. One hundred sixty-four subjects were videotaped interacting with an opposite-sex partner. The subjects also completed six personality measures. A personality description of each subject was also provided by two acquaintances. Three indices--subject-acquaintance agreement, acquaintance-acquaintance agreement, and acquaintance behavioral prediction--formed a reliable composite index of judgability. The correlates of judgability suggested that judgable people are stable, extraverted, agreeable, and conscientious, and more generally, psychologically well-adjusted. The joint influence of self-knowledge and social skill was theorized to be a causal antecedent of judgability and it was recommended that future research focus on testing this relationship."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology, Social

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Colvin, Carey Randall

Contributors dc:contributor

• Funder, D.

• Psychology, Social
• Psychology, Personality

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Colvin, Carey Randall

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9136573
(UMI)AAI9136573

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23787