The self-report method.

By D. Paulhus, Simine Vazire. 2007

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Extracting Human Temporal Orientation from Facebook Language (2015, background): “However, self report questionnaires are often used for convenience, not necessarily because they are most valid (Paulhus and Vazire, 2007).”
Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. (2010, background): “Although researchers will likely continue to rely heavily on self-report instruments, in spite of their well-known limitations (e.g., Paulhus & Vazire, 2007), they should strive to go beyond self-reports when possible (Baumeister, Vohs, & Funder, 2007) and use creative alternative approaches to…”
Assessing Internet Addiction Using the Parsimonious Internet Addiction Components Model—A Preliminary Study (2013, background): “Typically it is assumed that the individual is the best person to be a judge of him- or herself (Paulhus and Vazire 2009).”
Longitudinal Experience–Wide Association Studies—A Framework for Studying Personality Change (2020, background): “First, the widespread use of popular self-report measures has certain advantages, such as cost-efficiency, comparability across studies, and the relative sensitivity of self-report to individual differences in the self-concept (Paulhus & Vazire, 2007).”
Wise Reasoning in the Face of Everyday Life Challenges (2016, background): “Moreover, when memorable experiences are not readily available, abstract self-assessments can be subject to impression management and involuntary self-deception (Paulhus & Vazire, 2007; Vazire & Carlson, 2010).”
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the PERMA Model of Well-Being (2015, background): “In their study, Perissinotto et al. (2012) demonstrated that loneliness is an identifiable and measurable risk factor for morbidity and mortality.”
Contextualized Personality, beyond Traits (2015, background): “…& Angleitner, 2004; Hogan, 1982), certain characteristics (e.g. autobiographical narratives) are only capable of being assessed via self-report, as self-report constitutes the most direct route to a person’s psychological experiences (Barresi & Juckes, 1997; Johnson, 1997; Paulhus & Vazire, 2007).”
Contact Patterns in a High School: A Comparison between Data Collected Using Wearable Sensors, Contact Diaries and Friendship Surveys (2015, background): “For instance, according to [28], factors such as ambiguity, emotions, and rapid responding together with the retrospective collection of survey data can induce an extreme responding bias in scale-rating diaries.”
Five-factor inventories have a major general factor related to social desirability which can be reduced by framing items neutrally. (2009, methodology): “Both these methods have been criticized (e.g. Paulhus & Vazire, 2007).”
Measuring Personality Constructs: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Self-Reports, Informant Reports and Behavioural Assessments (2008, methodology): “Paulhus and Vazire (2007) made a similar suggestion when it comes to self reports: " As with the use of any method, self-reports should be corroborated with alternative assessment methods " (p. 235).”
Value tradeoffs propel and inhibit behavior: Validating the 19 refined values in four countries (2017, methodology): “We followed the recommendation in Cieciuch and Schwartz (2012) and ran separate models for each higher-order value for the following reasons: (i) the number of respondents in all but the Polish sample was too small to assess models with 19 latent variables and 57 value items or 85 behavior items rel”
Automatic personality assessment through social media language. (2015, background): “Because they are derived from a target’s language in a social setting, LBAs share some features of self-report (Paulhus & Vazire, 2007).”