THE MEASUREMENT OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN INTERPERSONAL COGNITIVE STRUCTURE (I) : A Preliminary Examination of Several Measures of Cognitive Complexity

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  • <原著>対人認知構造における個人差の測定 (1) : 認知的複雑性の測度についての予備的検討
  • 対人認知構造における個人差の測定-1-認知的複雑性の測度についての予備的検討
  • タイジン ニンチ コウゾウ ニ オケル コジンサ ノ ソクテイ 1 ニンチテキ

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Various techniques have been developed to measure "cognitive complexity" (CC). Some studies using different techniques, however, sometimes provided contradictory results on the relationship between CC and its relevant variables. The aim of the present research is to examine the validity of several measures of CC. Forty four undergraduate students (male and female) were made to rate eight role persons on twenty bipolar scales of personality traits. Seven measures of CC were calculated following to the computating procedure of Seaman & Koenig (1974). On the other hand, four multidimensional measures of individual differences in interpersonal cognitive structure were obtained by means of the "method of quantification" developed by C. Hayashi. The latter measures represent the structural properties in one's "implicit personality theories". Examining correlations between two types of measures, it was found that two of the measures of CC, that is, TCC and LPP^^-, were more valid than the other five. Some sex differences were observed in the correlational pattern of CC measures. Further, the male subjects with high score of TCC (the cognitively simple) were tended to evaluate more negatively the role person they disliked than the ones with low score (the cognitively complex).

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