Abstract

How can assessors capture context-driven variability in personality and interpersonal behavior in ways that are both empirically sound and clinically useful? Scott et al. (2021 Scott, W. D., Penningroth, S. L., Paup, S., Li, X., Adams, D., & Mallory, B. (2021). The Relational Self-Schema Measure: Assessing psychological needs in multiple self-with-other representations. Journal of Personality Assessment, 104. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2021.1900207[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) offer one potential solution as they discuss the Relational Self-Schema Measure, designed to assess variations in the self-schema across different relationship domains (e.g., self-with-parents, self-with-friends). This Comment outlines an evidence-based framework for assessing variability in personality and interpersonal behavior, describing three strategies that may be used by practitioners in the clinic and beyond. These are: 1) complementing decontextualized personality test results with domain-specific self-report and performance-based test data; 2) employing ambulatory assessment techniques to capture contextual variations in responding in vivo; and 3) using nomothetic test results as a springboard for patient narrative, with patient and therapist working together to explore relationship-specific variations in personality and interpersonal behavior.

摘要

评估者如何以既具有经验性又具有临床实用性的方式捕捉情境驱动的人格和人际行为变异性？斯科特等人。( 2021 Scott, WD , Penningroth, SL , Paup, S. , Li, X. , Adams, D. , & Mallory, B. ( 2021 )。关系自我图式测量：评估多种自我与其他表征中的心理需求。人格评估杂志，104。https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2021.1900207 [Taylor & Francis Online]、[Web of Science®]  、[Google Scholar]) 提供了一种潜在的解决方案，因为他们讨论了关系自我模式测量，旨在评估不同关系域（例如，自我与父母、自我与朋友）之间自我模式的变化。本评论概述了用于评估人格和人际行为变异性的基于证据的框架，描述了临床及其他从业者可能使用的三种策略。它们是：1）用特定领域的自我报告和基于绩效的测试数据补充去情境化的人格测试结果；2) 采用动态评估技术来捕捉体内反应的上下文变化；3) 使用 nomothetic 测试结果作为患者叙述的跳板，