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Matching Components of Self-Report and Peer-Nomination Personality Measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Warren T. Norman  and
Thad R. Harshbarger
Warren T. Norman
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
Thad R. Harshbarger
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Abstract

Two common methods of measuring personality variables are examined with respect to the ways in which they control respondent biases. A form of the mental-test theory model is developed which makes explicit differences in score components that result from different methodological constraints imposed by the two methods. From the model, it is possible to specify the operations necessary to provide equivalent information from the two sets of data. Performance of these operations in an empirical test supports the model by producing generally higher correlations between the variables having score components which are more closely matched.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , December 1965 , pp. 481 - 490
Copyright
Copyright © 1965 Psychometric Society

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