Reflection on scores for personality, implications for academic performance, and validity
Instructions
Word limit: 2250 words, not including end–text references and appendix.
Note: Do not exceed the word limit – your marker will stop marking your answers at the word limit, and further content will not be assessed.
Referencing Style: APA 7.
Formatting: 12pt Times New Roman, double line spacing, no additional spaces between paragraphs.
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Total marks: 40.
Outline
Based on your results from completing the 120–item IPIP (Maples, Guan, Carter, & Miller, 2014) representative of the NEO–PI–R domains of personality, this research assignment asks you to complete a review of your results and their potentialimplications based on findings from published
literature.
There are three major questions to be answered as part this assignment.
1. Using your PSY391 peers as a point of comparison, what do your scores on the 120–item IPIP by Maples et al. (2014) suggest about the five major trait domains of your personality?
When answering this question, address the following as part of your answer:
• Provide a standardised statistical indicator (e.g., a Z score) for each of your five domain scores that allows you to describe how much higher, lower, or approximately average you are on each trait domain in comparison to your PSY391 peers.
• Based on your IPIP scores, describe what traits for each domain would be more or less characteristic of you in comparison to your peers in the unit.
• Based on your IPIP scores and their implications for your personality traits described above, how accurately does this correspond with how you see yourself in comparison to your peers? Provide examples for each domain to substantiate your answer.
• Provide a Figure or Figures in your Appendix that demonstrates the distribution of the PSY391 cohort on each domain, and where your score sits on the distribution for each domain.
2. Based on findings from published academic literature, what do your scores on the five personality trait domains suggest about your predicted academic performance at university?
When answering this question, please address the following as part of your answer:
• Provide a concise summary of the academic literature that has addressed the five personality domains and their expected relationships with tertiary academic performance.
• Based on your perceptions of your academic performance, do your IPIP results support the predicted relationships between personality traits and academic performance?
Provide examples to substantiate your answer for the relevant trait domains.
3. What validity considerations are important when looking at the relationship between your personality domain scores and their predictions about your academic performance? When answering this question, please address the following as part of your answer:
• What aspects of validity may impede or strengthen the accuracy of your trait domain scores as predictors of academic performance? Provide examples to substantiate how these aspects of validity may be directly relevant to the accuracy of these relationships.
Format
•Number your answers in your assignment (e.g., 1., 2., 3.) to make it clear to your marker which question you are addressing.
You do not need to include the questions themselves in your assignment, but including the question numbers is important for clarity.
• You do not need to provide an abstract, or a general introduction and discussion, wrapped around the answers you provide to the questions on the previous page, as this assignment is not formatted like a laboratory report.
•Address each of the previous questions in a short answer format (i.e., using paragraphs to directly answer the questions), referring to published academic literature where appropriate (i.e., whenever you are referring to the work of another author).
• Use citations where appropriate per APA7 style.
• Writing succinctly, and directly addressing the components of each question, is highly recommended.
• Include Figure/s following your References in an Appendix section. Tables should not be included in this assignment as they are outside of the scope of what the questions are asking.
References
Maples, J. L., Guan, L., Carter, N. T., & Miller, J. D. (2014). A test of the International Personality Item
Pool representation of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and development of a 120–item IPIP–based measure of the Five–Factor Model.
Psychological Assessment, 26(4), 1070–
1084. doi:10.1037/pas0000004
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