Expanding the Scope of Implicit Personality Assessment

An Examination of the Questionnaire-Based Implicit Association Test (qIAT)

Bibliographic Data

ID21352299
AuthorsAriela Friedman (Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel), Benjamin A Katz (0000-0003-0849-5071, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel), Inbal Halavy Cohen (Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel), Inbal Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Iftah Yovel (0000-0003-0483-2456, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume103
Issue3
Pages380-391
Publication date2021-05-04
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality Assessment (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3891 • E-ISSN: 1532-7752
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00223891.2020.1754230
PMID32310007
OpenAlexW3017015043
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited36

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. Study 1 (N = 528) provided support for the internal consistency, test-retest reliability and convergent and discriminant validity of the qIAT that measured extraversion. Study 2 (N = 164) supported the reliability and validity of the qIAT assessment of conscientiousness, which predicted who returned to complete the second session of the study two weeks later, for which participants were paid in advance. This same prediction effect was marginally significant in Study 3 (N = 200), and across both Studies 2 and 3 the qIAT prediction of the criterion behavior was incremental to the parallel self-report questionnaire. Taken together, findings support the reliability and validity of the qIAT, which enables the indirect measurement of a wide variety of distinct personality constructs, currently measured only by self-report scales

Association (psychology) · Implicit-association test · Personality · Personality Assessment Inventory · Personality test · Psychological Testing · Psychometrics · Psychotherapist · Scope (computer science) · Test (biology) · Test validity · Clinical Psychology · Psychological Testing and Assessment · Psychology · Psychology of Development and Education · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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