Stability of response styles in a personality measure: Evidence with clinical adolescents

IF 1.2 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI:10.1002/capr.12859

Pei-Chen Wu

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Abstract

Background

In counselling and psychotherapy, individuals may exhibit response styles when completing personality measures, potentially distorting comparisons of inter- and intra-differences. However, previous research has primarily focused on nonclinical samples and cross-sectional data, leaving gaps in our understanding of the stability of response styles and their impact on clinical samples. This study aimed to fill gaps in knowledge by applying a mixed Rasch model to explore response style stability in a personality measure in clinical adolescents.

Methods

The study sample consisted of 290 clinical adolescents (112 males and 178 females) who were experiencing depressive symptoms and receiving continuous treatment for at least 2 years. Each participant completed a personality assessment at four time points with a six-month interval between each assessment. To comprehensively examine the stability of response styles over an extended period, this study utilised mixed Rash modelling to analyse enduring response patterns using data collected at the initial (T1) and fourth (T4) assessments, which were spaced 2 years apart.

Results

Using mixed Rasch modelling, the results showed that the extreme response style (ERS) and middle response style (MRS) were the two most common response styles in the five domains of the Big Five Inventory-21 at T1 and T4. The ERS and MRS remained stable throughout the mental health intervention. There was no gender-related relationship found for response styles in the data at separate time points (T1 and T4) or in the longitudinal data (long-format data). Importantly, the findings revealed that odds of a clinical adolescent changing their personality response style (ERS → MRS or MRS → ERS) increased by 1.15 times with each unit increase in depression score.

Conclusion

Researchers and practitioners should be aware that the stability of the ERS and MRS for a personality measure may result in response style-based explanations for findings obtained from longitudinal data, such as trait stability or trait change over waves.

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人格测量中反应风格的稳定性：临床青少年的证据

背景在心理咨询和心理治疗中，个体在完成人格测量时可能会表现出反应风格，这可能会扭曲差异间和差异内的比较。然而，以往的研究主要集中在非临床样本和横断面数据上，使我们对反应风格的稳定性及其对临床样本的影响缺乏了解。本研究旨在通过应用混合 Rasch 模型来探讨临床青少年人格测量中反应风格的稳定性，从而填补这方面的知识空白。研究方法研究样本包括 290 名临床青少年（男性 112 名，女性 178 名），他们都有抑郁症状，并接受了至少两年的持续治疗。每位受试者在四个时间点完成了人格评估，每次评估间隔六个月。为了全面考察反应方式在较长时间内的稳定性，本研究采用混合拉什模型，利用首次评估（T1）和第四次评估（T4）收集的数据分析持久的反应模式，这两次评估相隔两年。结果使用混合拉什模型，结果表明极端反应风格（ERS）和中间反应风格（MRS）是在 T1 和 T4 期大五清单-21 五个领域中最常见的两种反应风格。在整个心理健康干预过程中，ERS 和 MRS 保持稳定。在不同时间点（T1 和 T4）的数据或纵向数据（长格式数据）中，没有发现反应风格与性别有关。重要的是，研究结果显示，抑郁评分每增加一个单位，临床青少年改变其人格反应方式（ERS → MRS 或 MRS → ERS）的几率就会增加 1.15 倍。结论研究人员和从业人员应注意，人格测量中 ERS 和 MRS 的稳定性可能会导致以反应风格为基础来解释纵向数据的研究结果，如特质稳定性或特质随波变化。

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Counselling & Psychotherapy Research PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Counselling and Psychotherapy Research is an innovative international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to linking research with practice. Pluralist in orientation, the journal recognises the value of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods strategies of inquiry and aims to promote high-quality, ethical research that informs and develops counselling and psychotherapy practice. CPR is a journal of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, promoting reflexive research strongly linked to practice. The journal has its own website: www.cprjournal.com. The aim of this site is to further develop links between counselling and psychotherapy research and practice by offering accessible information about both the specific contents of each issue of CPR, as well as wider developments in counselling and psychotherapy research. The aims are to ensure that research remains relevant to practice, and for practice to continue to inform research development.