Personality Consistencies In Judgment : Dimensions Of Role Constructs.

Eighty-four males and 79 females judged similarities and differences among 16 dominant figures important in interpersonal functioning, such as mother, self, best friend, or liked -her. The individual differences model of multidimensional sealing, in separate analyses far the two sexes, uncovered six dimensions of viewpoint for females and seven for males. Individual scores on these viewpoint dimensions were found to be significantly correlated with certain cognitive and personality measures. Separate multidimensional scaling spaces were obtained for each viewpoint dimension, and a selected set of these structures were compared and their personality correlates exemplified.