Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1986

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

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.

Extent

43 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.

Identifier

FADT14344

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