Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1984

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to demonstrate the effect of situational constraint as a moderator of the predictive validity of trait constructs and of the cross-situational consistency of behavior. Subjects were administered the extraversion scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and their social behavior in a waiting-room situation and in a role-played job interview was observed under conditions of either low (neutral condition) or high (forced-introversion condition) situational constraint. The hypothesis that, under high constraint, restriction of range on the dependent variables would attenuate validity and consistency correlations was only partially confirmed. The strongest finding was that judges' ratings of subjects' talkativeness, overall exhibited behavior, and inferred dispositional extraversion yielded significantly higher correlations for the more subjective and broader measures than for the more objective, narrow ones. The utility of these types of data and their place in the consistency-specificity debate are discussed.

Extent

92 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1984.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1984.

Identifier

FADT14200

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