| title: | Experience and Expression of Anger/Hostility in Daily Situations and the Role of Personality Traits |
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| reg no: | ETF5384 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
5. Social Sciences |
| status: | completed |
| institution: | TU Faculty of Social Sciences |
| head of project: | Anu Realo |
| duration: | 01.01.2003 - 31.12.2005 |
| description: | Most of the current research on individual differences faces both substantive and methodological problems. From the theoretical perspective, one of the most challenging activities in personality research consists of the efforts to incorporate diverse approaches to personality into an integrated whole. From the methodological point of view, it must be emphasized that personality research relies heavily on retrospective self-report as a primary source of the data. There is, however, accumulating evidence showing that such self-reports are prone to serious errors and biases arising from the characteristics of retrospective recall and retrieval processes. The proposed project will be undertaken to address both the theoretical and methodological concerns outlined above. First, it aims to integrate the personality dispositions and the psychological processes and dynamics that underlie them into a unitary system of personality. The proposed research seeks to give a comprehensive description of individual differences in one specific negative affect-anger/hostility-by taking into account both personality dispositions, situational features, and cognitive affective units. Furthermore, as it addresses the issue from a longitudinal perspective, it will also allow for the assessment of stability and continuity in personality functioning. Second, to address the methodological concerns, a method for repeated collection of momentary assessments from participants in their natural daily environments, labeled ecological momentary assessment (EMA; Stone & Shiffman, 1994) or the experience sampling method (ESM; Csikszentmihalyi & Larsen, 1987) will be used in proposed project. The main feature of the method is the collection of repeated momentary assessments from participants in their everyday lives; its focus on momentary incidences and immediate reporting minimizes the risk of recall biases. |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Kätlin Nummert | University of Tartu | Doctoral student | |
| 2. | Anu Realo | TU Faculty of Social Sciences | Associate Professor | |
| 3. | Monika Schmidt | University of Tartu | Doctoral student | |