Measuring Personality Constructs: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Self-Reports, Informant Reports and Behavioural Assessments

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Thanks, but no-thanks for the feedback (2017, background): “Whilst there are some problems with self-report measures, they do have some advantages in understanding the attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviours in observational and experimental studies (McDonald 2008).”
Investigating Grit at a Non-Cognitive Predictor of College Success (2016, background): “While these too are susceptible to enhancement biases under high stakes conditions (e.g., McDonald, 2008), little to no research has investigated such effects.”