Peer Assessment of Personality Traits and Pathology

本研究将考察人格的结构效度。 通过结合为研究社会问题而开发的方法来研究障碍(PD 人的感知心理学和实验室表现测量， 结构化访谈，以及有关社会和职业的真实世界数据 功能正常。目前关于PD的知识几乎完全依赖于 自我报告测量(问卷和访谈)。不幸的是，人们 有PD的人经常不能现实地看待自己，也不知道 他们的行为对其他人的影响。我们的研究比较了信息 从与同伴的自我报告测量看病理性人格特质 提名由彼此熟悉的人提出。 参与者是由完成基本军事训练的男女组成的团体 一起(2100名空军新兵)或一起住在大学里 宿舍(1,200名一年级学生)。我们已经证明了同龄人的判断 关于病理特征是可靠和有效的，我们的样本 包括相当数量的至少符合DSM-IV标准的人 一名警察。我们还发现，自我报告和 同行报告的测量范围从0.20到0.30。在未来五年，我们将 继续这些发现，比较自我报告和基于同伴的有效性 措施。我们的大量数据集也将被用来检查相关问题 例如，诊断标准集中的性别偏见。后续信息将是 使用电子人事数据库收集的数据(适用于空军新兵)和 实验室任务的表现(针对大学生)。这些数据将允许 美国将评估病理性人格特征对功能的影响 人们生活中的结果。我们还将制定评估程序，以 用于补充传统的自我报告工具。

This study will examine the construct validity of personality disorders (PDs) by combining methods developed for studying the social psychology of person perception with laboratory performance measures, structured interviews, and real world data regarding social and occupational functioning. Current knowledge regarding PDs relies almost exclusively on self-report measures (questionnaires and interviews). Unfortunately, people with PDs are frequently unable to view themselves realistically and unaware of the effect their behavior has on other people. Our study compares information regarding pathological personality traits from self-report measures with peer nominations made by people who are well-acquainted with each other. Participants are groups of men and women who completed basic military training together (2,100 Air Force recruits) or who have lived together in a college dormitory (1,200 first-year students). We have shown that peer judgments regarding pathological traits are reliable and valid and that our sample includes a substantial number of people who meet DSM-IV criteria for at least one PD. We have also found that correlations between self-report and peer-report measures range from .20 to .30. In the next five years, we will pursue these findings to compare the validity of self-report and peer-based measures. Our extensive data set will also be used to examine related issues such as gender bias in diagnostic criterion sets. Follow-up information will be collected using electronic personnel databases (for AF recruits) and performance on laboratory tasks (for college students). These data will allow us to evaluate the impact of pathological personality traits on functional outcomes in people's lives. We will also develop assessment procedures that can be used to supplement traditional self-report instruments.