Stability versus change, dependability versus error: Issues in the assessment of personality over time

By D. Watson. 2004

228 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• The reliability paradox: Why robust cognitive tasks do not produce reliable individual differences (2017, unknown): “^ (Watson, 2004, p.326).”
• Personality development: continuity and change over the life course. (2010, unknown): “Over a period of days or weeks, differential continuity is essentially synonymous with the test-retest reliability of the trait measures employed (Watson 2004).”
• Self-concept consistency and short-term stability in eight cultures (2012, methodology): “We selected an interval of 1 month between measurements, which enabled us to examine the reliability or short-term stability of self-concepts and if–then profiles of traits, but not long-term temporal stability (Watson, 2004).”
• A meta-analysis of dependability coefficients (test–retest reliabilities) for measures of the Big Five (2014, background): “or distractions and transient error that results from variations in, for example, current levels of mood or feelings (Watson, 2004).”
• The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people (2018, unknown): “Results were within the range of stable personality traits (Watson, 2004): Joyous Exploration (0.80), Deprivation Sensitivity (0.67), Stress Tolerance (0.72), Social Curiosity (0.59), Thrill Seeking (0.79).”
• Personality Trait Change in Adulthood (2008, background): “The key empirical hurdle that needs to be addressed is to determine whether individual differences in change are real or whether they simply represent error in measurement (Watson, 2004).”
• Neuroticism and Common Mental Disorders: Meaning and Utility of a Complex Relationship (2013, unknown): “In addition, psychometric studies indicate that neuroticism scores include some state variance that is independent of developmental changes in the traits but related to current affective state (Chmielewski & Watson, 2009; D. Watson, 2004).”
• Test–retest: Agreement or reliability? (2016, background): “For instance, Watson (2004) examined the test–retest practices in the field of personality assessment, but only from the perspective of Pearson’s correlation.”
• Internal Consistency, Retest Reliability, and their Implications For Personality Scale Validity (2010, background): “no real change in trait level is to be expected (Watson, 2004), and as stability if the retest interval is longer.”