The Bipolarity of Personal Constructs

Personal constructs and personal characteristics.

An important issue in personality is the relationship between the life style of an individual, including his outlook, and his objective characteristics or characteristics of his situation. Certainly it would seem that the wayan individual chooses to construe his environment and his place in it should be related to his own characteristics. Thus, a handsome person might be expected to have quite ...

Schizophrenia, personal constructs, and Riedel's constructs.

W. W. Riedel's 1970 report of an investigation of personal constructs, using schizophrenics as Ss, encourages criticism of two major aspects of such endeavors. Unwarranted application of the disease model as a paradigm for studying undesirable conduct produces a series of strategy errors: weak explication of linkages between theory and measurements, noninclusion of relevant demographic data, un...

Personal Constructs in Systemic Practice

Elicitation of British Army Commanders’ Personal Constructs

The design of information systems to aid the attainment of Situation Awareness would benefit from an understanding of the mental models that commanders reference in assessing situations. This paper presents novel experimental research conducted to elicit the personal constructs that constitute the fabric of British Army commanders’ mental models. For a given scenario, it is shown that four out ...

The predictive strength of personal constructs versus conventional constructs: self-image disparity and neuroticism.

Idiographic personal construct (PC) measures of self-image disparity were hypothesized to be stronger than nonidiographic conventional construct (CC) measures in predicting neuroticism. Ninety-six college students completed PC and CC measures of real self, ideal self, social self, and ideal social self; the NEO Five-Factor Inventory; and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Content ana...