Measuring Personality Development in the Aftermath of Critical Life Events: A Preliminary Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study

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Roczniki Psychologiczne Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI:10.18290/rpsych2024.0001

I. Kaźmierczak

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Abstract

This article aims to conceptualize, operationalize, and empirically validate the concept of actual personality development in the aftermath of a Critical Life Event. Two qualitative tools have been elaborated: the Structured Critical Life Events Interview and the Coding System for Personality Development. They were empirically verified in a preliminary longitudinal mixed methods study (N = 40 participants, n = 1440 narratives) with three measurements in one year referring to the Transition Cycle (Hopson & Adams, 1976). For assessing reliability the Intraclass Correlation Co-efficient (ICC) and Cronbach’s α were assessed. The convergent validity of the tools was deter¬mined by correlating the results with (1) linguistic structure of participants’ verbalizations and (2) the questionnaires measuring similar behaviours and features. The research showed good psycho-metric properties of the tools. Moreover, they better identified personality growth and the specific dynamics of personality changes (positive and negative) than the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996).

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衡量人生重大事件后的人格发展：初步纵向混合方法研究

本文旨在将 "人生重大事件后的实际人格发展 "这一概念概念化、可操作化，并通过实证验证。我们精心设计了两个定性工具："关键人生事件结构化访谈 "和 "人格发展编码系统"。在一项初步的纵向混合方法研究（N = 40 名参与者，n = 1440 篇叙述）中，对这两个工具进行了经验验证，并在一年内参照过渡周期（Hopson & Adams，1976 年）进行了三次测量。为了评估可靠性，评估了类内相关系数（ICC）和克朗巴赫α。通过将结果与（1）参与者口头表达的语言结构和（2）测量类似行为和特征的问卷进行关联，确定了工具的收敛效度。研究表明，这些工具具有良好的心理测量特性。此外，与创伤后成长量表（Tedeschi & Calhoun，1996 年）相比，这些工具能更好地识别人格成长和人格变化（积极和消极）的具体动态。

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期刊介绍： Roczniki Psychologiczne / Annals of Psychology, the continuation of Annals of Philosophy: Psychology, is an academic journal edited by The Scientific Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin [Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL]. It aims to present up-to-date and original empirical results and influential theoretical considerations in various areas of psychology as well as to promote new and creative ideas in research and psychological methods. The Journal accepts contributions of three kinds: 1) original peer reviewed articles on both empirical and conceptual topics, 2) short communications, and 3) polemics, which consist of a focus article followed by peer commentaries and a response by the author of the focus article.