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Measurement and control of response bias.

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The article was published on 1991-01-01. It has received 3388 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory & Psychometrics.

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How Many Interviews Are Enough?: An Experiment with Data Saturation and Variability

TL;DR: The authors operationalize saturation and make evidence-based recommendations regarding nonprobabilistic sample sizes for interviews and found that saturation occurred within the first twelve interviews, although basic elements for metathemes were present as early as six interviews.
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Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals

TL;DR: Grit demonstrated incremental predictive validity of success measures over and beyond IQ and conscientiousness, suggesting that the achievement of difficult goals entails not only talent but also the sustained and focused application of talent over time.
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Ethical leadership: A social learning perspective for construct development and testing

TL;DR: In this paper, social learning theory is used as a theoretical basis for understanding ethical leadership and a constitutive definition of the ethical leadership construct is proposed. But, little empirical research focuses on an ethical dimension of leadership.
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The Measurement of Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals

TL;DR: The Self-Construal Scale as discussed by the authors measures the strength of an individual's interdependent and independent self-construals by measuring the two dimensions of self-image, i.e., connectedness and relations often found in non-western cultures and the separateness and uniqueness of the individual stressed in the West.
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The international personality item pool and the future of public-domain personality measures ☆

TL;DR: The International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) as mentioned in this paper has been used as a prototype for public-domain personality measures, focusing on the International personality item pool, which has been widely used for personality measurement.
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A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology.

TL;DR: It seems clear that the items in the Edwards Social Desirability Scale would, of necessity, have extreme social desirability scale positions or, in other words, be statistically deviant.
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Illusion and well-being: a social psychological perspective on mental health

TL;DR: Research suggesting that certain illusions may be adaptive for mental health and well-being is reviewed, examining evidence that a set of interrelated positive illusions—namely, unrealistically positive self-evaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism—can serve a wide variety of cognitive, affective, and social functions.
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Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies.

TL;DR: A scale measuring dispositional optimism, defined in terms of generalized outcome expectancies, was used in a longitudinal study of symptom reporting among a group of undergraduates and predicted that subjects who initially reported being highly optimistic were subsequently less likely to report being bothered by symptoms.
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Dynamics of a stressful encounter: Cognitive appraisal, coping, and encounter outcomes.

TL;DR: In this paper, an intraindividual analysis of the interrelations among primary appraisal (what was at stake in the encounter), secondary appraisal (coping options), eight forms of problem-and emotion-focused coping, and encounter outcomes in a sample of community-residing adults was performed.
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A personality scale of manifest anxiety.

TL;DR: A description of the construction of the test and the normative data that have been accumulated in connection with it are presented as of possible interest to other researchers.
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