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Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
Many psychologists have promoted the use of personality traits and
other dispositional constructs for the prediction of human behavior.
However, other psychologists have concluded that individuals do not
exhibit sufficient cross-situational consistency in their behavior to
warrant the use of dispositional measures as predictors of behavior
(e.g., Mischel, 1968; Nisbett, 1980). The present research was
designed to demonstrate that cross-situational consistency correlation
coefficients may be inadequate indicators of the utility of
dispositional constructs. In particular, it was proposed that a
consideration of the situational constraint present within a situation
and the degree of the opportunity to self-select into a situation are
important factors which aid in the specification of when personality
traits can and cannot be used successfully to predict human behavior.
other dispositional constructs for the prediction of human behavior.
However, other psychologists have concluded that individuals do not
exhibit sufficient cross-situational consistency in their behavior to
warrant the use of dispositional measures as predictors of behavior
(e.g., Mischel, 1968; Nisbett, 1980). The present research was
designed to demonstrate that cross-situational consistency correlation
coefficients may be inadequate indicators of the utility of
dispositional constructs. In particular, it was proposed that a
consideration of the situational constraint present within a situation
and the degree of the opportunity to self-select into a situation are
important factors which aid in the specification of when personality
traits can and cannot be used successfully to predict human behavior.
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