Self-Reporting and the Argumentativeness Scale: An Empirical Examination
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- 作者：Stephen M. Croucher ; Alfred DeMaris ; Audra R. Diers-Lawson ; Shannon Roper
- 关键词：Argumentativeness ; Social desirability ; Self ; report ; Other ; report ; Reliability analysis
- 刊名：Argumentation
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：March 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：31
- 期：1
- 页码：23-43
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- 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- 刊物主题：Logic; Communication Studies; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History; Political Communication;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1572-8374
- 卷排序：31
文摘
This study has two purposes. First, the study evaluates the reliability of self-reports of argumentativeness by comparing self-reported argumentativeness with two other reports of the same target: evaluations by friends and evaluations by intimates. Second, the study examines whether particular characteristics (e.g. gender, relational distance, years known, etc.) presage a larger or smaller disparity in different reporters’ reports. We found (a) the reliability of both the approach and avoidance subscales to be acceptable for the intimate partner’s responses, but only marginally acceptable when the scale was answered by a friend; (b) on a basic level, we did not find individuals over or under-estimating their level of argumentativeness, (c) self-over and under estimating has limited impact on the self-reporting of argumentativeness, though males are more likely to over-report argumentativeness; and (d) while relational history had little effect on other-reports, there were effects for same-sex couples that should be further explored.