性格特性用語の研究 I

Abstract

It is important to provide the table of the personality trait words with the psycologically evaluated values in order to study human processes of impression formation. This study consisted of two parts : (1) the words selection and (2) the empirical evalution of the words selected. Forty six male students were instructed to describe personality trait words as many as they could recall. The words were listed and then screened to 100 words. The 30 personality trait words which had been selected by Aoki were added to the 100 words. The subjects used for the evalution were 170 male college students who were divided into four groups. Each group rated the 130 words on the basis of the semantic likability on a 7-point scale. One week after the experiments, reexperiments were carried out to test the reliability of the experimental procedure. The mean values (x^^^-) and the standard deviations (s) of the 130 words were tabulated for each group. Visual inspection of the data revealed the tendency of each subject. To discuss the reliability of the mean values, the Linear Regression Analyses were conducted on the results of this study vs. the Aoki's study. This study confirmed that the mean values prepared as the table were useful for a study of human processes of impression formation.