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Situation cognition and coherence in personality : an individual-centered approach

This volume reexamines the long-standing controversy about consistency in personality from a social psychological perspective. Barabara Krahé reconsiders the concept of consistency in terms of the systematic coherence of situation cognition and behaviour across situations. In the first part of the volume she undertakes an examination of recent social psychological models of situation cognition for their ability to clarify the principles underlying the perception of situational similarities. She then advances an individual-centred methedology in which nomothetic hypotheses about cross-situational coherence are tested on the basis of idiogrphic measurement of situation cognition and behaviour.
In the second part of the volume, a series of empirical studies is reported which apply the individual-centred framework to the analysis of cross-situational coherence in the domain of anxiety-provoking situations. These studies are distinctive in that they extend over several months and use free-response data; they are based on idiographic sampling; and they employ explicit theoretical models to capture the central features of situation perception. The results demonstrate the benefits of integrating idiographic and nomothetic research strategies and exploiting the advantages of both perspectives.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:3355
Date January 1990
CreatorsKrahé, Barbara
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Psychologie
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePostprint
Formatapplication/pdf
SourceKrahé, Barbara: Situation cognition and coherence in personality : an individual-centered approach. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990
Rightshttp://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php

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