Personality and perceptions of situations from the Thematic Apperception Test

• Autores: David G. Serfass, Ryne A. Sherman
• Localización: Journal of Research in Personality, ISSN-e 1095-7251, Vol. 47, Nº. 6, 2013, págs. 708-718
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Participants (N = 186) viewed three pictures from the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Murray, 1938) and rated the situations contained therein using a new measure of situations, the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (RSQ; Wagerman & Funder, 2009). Results support a two-component view of situation perception: an objective component attributable to the situation being perceived and a subjective component attributable to the person doing the perceiving ( , , and ). Further, distinctive perceptions of situations were consistent across pictures and were associated with the Big Five personality traits, particularly Neuroticism and Openness, in a theoretically meaningful manner. These results provide support for perception as a core process for how personality traits work.