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Consistent Across Situations? A Person Specific Approach To Examining A Long-Standing Paradox., Muchen Xi
Consistent Across Situations? A Person Specific Approach To Examining A Long-Standing Paradox., Muchen Xi
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Bem and Allen (1974) address the person situation debate by proposing that there are some people behave more consistently, which can be better “explained” try personality traits, than others who are more influenced by situations. However, with failures to directly replicate Bem and Allen’s study, the existence of individual difference in cross situation consistency of behaviors remaining unclear. The current study addressed open questions that arose from the personality consistency debate by employing Mixed Effect Location Scale Model (MELSM) in an intensive longitudinal study. We found 1) there are individual difference in the overall behavioral consistency across situations; 2) there …