Situation Change: Stability and Change of Situation Variables Between and Within Persons
When, how, and why situations flow into one another is important for understanding dynamic personality processes, but the topic of situation change has traditionally been a thorny issue in personality/social psychology. We explore conceptual and methodological issues in research on situation change:...
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| description | When, how, and why situations flow into one another is important for understanding dynamic personality processes, but the topic of situation change has traditionally been a thorny issue in personality/social psychology. We explore conceptual and methodological issues in research on situation change: (1) What is situation change, which variables could we measure, and how can situation change be methodologically captured and analyzed (at between- and within-person levels)? (2) Which person-situation transaction mechanisms (situation management strategies) could entail stability and change of situations in daily life? (3) How do single or repeated instances of situation change impact short-, middle-, and long-term outcomes (e.g., intra- and interpersonal adjustment)? Besides laying out a research program for situation change, we present preliminary data from participants who wore mini-video cameras recording their situations so that they could be rated later in the lab. We demonstrate rater consensus on when situations change, mean-level changes of situation characteristics across situations, similarity of situation characteristics across adjacent situations, and inter-individual differences in intra-individual situation change in change networks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d8aedc5aa5dc42ef9457d310122a38232022-12-22T00:52:34ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782016-01-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.01938160940Situation Change: Stability and Change of Situation Variables Between and Within PersonsJohn F. Rauthmann0Ryne A Sherman1Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinFlorida Atlantic UniversityWhen, how, and why situations flow into one another is important for understanding dynamic personality processes, but the topic of situation change has traditionally been a thorny issue in personality/social psychology. We explore conceptual and methodological issues in research on situation change: (1) What is situation change, which variables could we measure, and how can situation change be methodologically captured and analyzed (at between- and within-person levels)? (2) Which person-situation transaction mechanisms (situation management strategies) could entail stability and change of situations in daily life? (3) How do single or repeated instances of situation change impact short-, middle-, and long-term outcomes (e.g., intra- and interpersonal adjustment)? Besides laying out a research program for situation change, we present preliminary data from participants who wore mini-video cameras recording their situations so that they could be rated later in the lab. We demonstrate rater consensus on when situations change, mean-level changes of situation characteristics across situations, similarity of situation characteristics across adjacent situations, and inter-individual differences in intra-individual situation change in change networks.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01938/fullindividual differencessituationsSituational Eight DIAMONDSsituation changeperson-situation transactionssituation management strategies |
| spellingShingle | John F. Rauthmann Ryne A Sherman Situation Change: Stability and Change of Situation Variables Between and Within Persons Frontiers in Psychology individual differences situations Situational Eight DIAMONDS situation change person-situation transactions situation management strategies |
| title | Situation Change: Stability and Change of Situation Variables Between and Within Persons |
| title_full | Situation Change: Stability and Change of Situation Variables Between and Within Persons |
| title_fullStr | Situation Change: Stability and Change of Situation Variables Between and Within Persons |
| title_full_unstemmed | Situation Change: Stability and Change of Situation Variables Between and Within Persons |
| title_short | Situation Change: Stability and Change of Situation Variables Between and Within Persons |
| title_sort | situation change stability and change of situation variables between and within persons |
| topic | individual differences situations Situational Eight DIAMONDS situation change person-situation transactions situation management strategies |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01938/full |
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