Sentence examples for trait validity from inspiring English sources

The psychological assessments of Frederick indicated that he was by all counts a perfectly normal guy, average in intelligence, average in personality, with "no sadistic or pathological tendencies," and with only one outlier trait: "Validity scales indicate the patient presented himself as a morally virtuous individual".

The factor analysis and the relation of the dimensions to several personality traits corroborate validity.

Cued recall was higher for old (previously implied) than the novel portraits' trait adjectives, indicating validity of the applied test procedures.

However, Mills and Kroner [ 30] conclude from a series of studies in offender populations [ 30– 32], that self-report measures of antisocial traits have predictive validity for criminal offences, despite the influence of social desirability.

Limitations of the present study include the use of mainly parent-reported questionnaires of behavioural symptoms, including callous unemotional traits; however the validity of self-reported behavioural measures in the ASD population still needs to be established.

There are, however, two general tests we can apply to examine if these specific traits lie outside the FFM framework (Watson, 2012): (1) the traits can be identified as distinct factors lying outside the FFM framework using factor analytic procedures and (2) these traits show incremental validity over the FFM domains.

Indeed, health anxiety shows incremental validity over trait anxiety with respect to medical utilization (Fergus & Valentiner, 2009).

Regarding the psychometric properties of SWAP-200, we mention an illustrative study examining the reliability and validity of trait scores derived from SWAP-200 via factor analysis [ 41].

Likewise, the removal of items that do not fit the underlying trait would improve the validity of the scale in these groups.

Second, using seven diverse samples (Ntotal = 4,263) we develop the SIMP-G, the German adaptation of the Single-Item Measures of Personality, an instrument assessing the Big Five with one item per trait, and evaluate its validity and reliability.

However, like multiple-modeled traits, establishing strong predictive validity can also generally mitigate the inherent weaknesses of having to rely on modeled endophenotypes and/or mechanistic constructs whose causal connection to the core mechanisms and symptoms of schizophrenia are speculative.