Increasing the Flexibility of Implicit Personality Assessment: An Examination of a Universal Assessment Procedure of the Self.

The current studies systematically examined a new version of the Questionnaire-Based Implicit Association Test (qIAT), which minimizes the differences between direct and indirect modes of assessment. Studies 1a ( = 276) and 1 b ( = 238) tested a method that enables an indirect assessment of questionnaires that include only non-reversed items. Studies 2a ( = 255) and 2 b ( = 284) tested a task that substitutes the problematic construct-related category labels with generic, universal categories.

Expanding the Scope of Implicit Personality Assessment: An Examination of the Questionnaire-Based Implicit Association Test (qIAT).

Self-report questionnaires can only yield information that people are able and willing to report, but implicit assessment methods are not commonly used in mainstream personality research. The Questionnaire-based Implicit Association Test (qIAT) was designed to address the limitations associated with the conventional self-concept IAT, and it enables an indirect assessment that is based on the items of standard self-reports. The present studies examined the psychometric properties of the qIAT across two personality constructs.