Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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951710 | Journal of Research in Personality | 2011 | 11 Pages |
In order to better integrate research on personality pathology, interpersonal problems, and social skills, we applied the traditional methods of these three research strands (questionnaires, interviews, and interpersonal role-plays) to the same sample. Participants who attributed higher levels of interpersonal problems to themselves in general were also more critical of their own role-play performances, but these impressions were not mirrored by observer-ratings. Self-observer agreement in judging overall role-play performance was essentially zero. Interviewer-ratings of personality pathology had incremental validity over self-ratings in predicting observer-rated role-play performance. Self-reports of interpersonal functioning leave relevant behavioral variance untapped and thus should be complemented by other sources of information.
► Hundred subjects completed questionnaires, interviews, and 17 dyadic role-plays. ► Role-play performance was judged with good agreement by three observers. ► Self-observer agreement in judging average role-play performance was zero. ► Interviewer-ratings had incremental validity in predicting role-play performance.