Brain modules, personality layers, planes of being, spiral structures, and the equally implausible distinction between TCI-R "Temperament" and "Character" scales: Reply to Cloninger (2008)
Brain modules, personality layers, planes of being, spiral structures, and the equally implausible distinction between TCI-R "Temperament" and "Character" scales: Reply to Cloninger (2008)
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DOI：
10.1037/a0012932
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
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3.6
通讯作者：
Goldberg, Lewis R.
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作者：
Farmer, Richard F.;Goldberg, Lewis R.
在本回复中，作者回应了 C. R. Cloninger (2008) 对其报告（R. F. Fanner & L. R. Goldberg, 2008）有关修订后的气质和性格量表 (TCI-R) 以及空头量表衍生品 TCI-140 的心理测量特性的评论。尽管 Cloninger 的心理生物学模型经历了实质性的理论修改，但这些变化与 TCI-R 评估和使用的相关性仍不清楚。 TCI-R 评估的各个方面似乎在理论上和经验上也与 Cloninger 的主张不一致，即 TCI-R 人格域本质上是非线性和动态的。心理生物学模型的其他几个核心假设（包括最近的迭代）是不可证伪的、支持不一致或没有明显的经验基础。例如，尽管使用 TCI 和 TCI-R 的研究人员经常接受气质性格的区别和相关的理论后果，但作者发现很少有总体支持将 TCI-R 域区分为这两个基本类别。简要讨论了这些观察结果对 TCI-R 评估的影响。
In this reply the authors address comments by C. R. Cloninger (2008) related to their report (R. F. Fanner & L. R. Goldberg, 2008) on the psychometric properties of the revised Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-R) and a short inventory derivative, the TCI-140. Even though Cloninger's psychobiological model has undergone substantial theoretical modifications, the relevance of these changes for the evaluation and use of the TCI-R remains unclear. Aspects of TCI-R assessment also appear to be theoretically and empirically incongruent with Cloninger's assertion that TCI-R personality domains are nonlinear and dynamic in nature. Several other core assumptions from the psychobiological model, including this most recent iteration, are nonfalsifiable, inconsistently supported, or have no apparent empirical basis. Although researchers using the TCI and TCI-R have frequently accepted the temperament-character distinction and associated theoretical ramifications, for example, the authors found little overall support for the differentiation of TCI-R domains into these 2 basic categories. The implications of these observations for TCI-R assessment are briefly discussed.