A First Test of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure as a Measure of Self-Esteem: Irish Prisoner Groups and University Students
By Nigel Vahey, D. Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Ian Stewart. 2009
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The study examined the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure’s (IRAP) validity as a computerized response-latency-based measure of implicit selfesteem. University undergraduates and 2 sets of convicted prisoners participated. One set of prisoners resided in the main block, and the other in a privileged lower security “open area” of a medium-security Irish prison. The IRAP required participants to maintain relational responses that were self-positive on half of the IRAP trials (“Consistent”), and self-negative on the other half (“Inconsistent”). As predicted, the students and the prisoners in the open area showed stronger IRAP effects (shorter latencies during consistent vs. inconsistent trials) than the main block prisoners. Additionally, the IRAP’s convergent validity was supported by its moderate positive correlation with an explicit self-esteem measure. The findings provide preliminary support for the analytic utility of the IRAP and suggest future avenues of investigation afforded by the IRAP’s design.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: Exploring the Impact of Private Versus Public Contexts and the Response Latency Criterion on Pro-White and Anti-Black Stereotyping Among White Irish Individuals (2010, methodology): “The order in which IRAP blocks were presented was not counterbalanced across participants because previous research has found that this variable does not interact significantly with the critical IRAP effect (e.g., McKenna et al., 2007; Power et al., 2009; Vahey et al., 2009).”
- A Sketch of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and the Relational Elaboration and Coherence (REC) Model (2010, background): “…self-reported team allegiances (for other examples see Barnes-Holmes, Murtagh, et al., 2010; Barnes-Holmes, Waldron, Barnes-Holmes, & Stewart, 2009; Vahey et al., 2009). on balance, perhaps the most interesting feature of the IRAP (and other implicit measures) is observed when the direction of an…”