Likableness ratings of 100 German personality-trait words corresponding to a subset of Anderson's 555 trait words
✍ Scribed by Peter Schönbach
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 315 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
About eight years ago Anderson (1968) asked 100 college students in an introductory psychology class at the University of California, Los Angeles, to rate 555 personalitytrait words on likableness as personality characteristics. These normative ratings have been very useful in selecting trait descriptions for various experiments in impression formation (e.g. Anderson, 1965). Therefore I decided to make use of an opportunity to collect data for corresponding German norms that may be of service for related studies in German settings and for cross-cultural research. It turned out that the data obtained are also of interest in their own right in comparison to Anderson's American ratings.
Procedure
A11 subjects were students of an introductory social psychology course at the University of Bochum which I held in the winter semester 1971/72. On the day of data collection 187 students attended class, 184 returned filled-in rating sheets, but 14 of these had omitted to rate one or two scales. The analysis reported in this paper is based on the data of the remaining 170 Ss, 82 male, 86 female, and two of unknown sex.
Each S received a five-page list of 100 adjectives. Each adjective was accompanied by a 7-point scale ranging from 0 to 6, with 0 being defined as 'am wenigsten giinstig oder wunschenswert' (least favorable or desirable) and 6 as 'hochst giinstig oder wiinschenswert' (most favorable or desirable). The intermediate numbers were listed on the sheet but not verbally defined. The rating sheets were preceded by an instruction page closely following the information given by Anderson (1968). The Ss were to rate each trait according to how favorable or desirable in other persons it would appear to the S. * I am grateful to Mrs. Angelika Miiller-I also gratefully acknowledge the permis-Eckhard for her competent technical assion granted by Dr. Norman H. Anderson sistance in all phases of this study and to to reproduce parts of Table 1 in Anderson, Mr. Ekkehard Miiller-Eckhard for pro-1968. viding a convenient computer program.