Journal article
Personality similarity and the development of friendship: A longitudinal study
British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Vol.17(3), pp.237-242
Received 3 June 1977; revised version received 24 September 1977
09/1978
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00272.x
Abstract
Currently equivocal findings on personality similarity and attraction can be clarified if ‘personality’ and ‘acquaintance’ are recognized as essentially generic concepts rather than single entities. A ‘filtering’ process is proposed to account for longitudinal acquaintance development where ‘personality’ has several different and successive places and where different measures of personality are sequentially appropriate tests of the personality-friendship relationship. A study is reported where 40 previously unacquainted subjects completed three different personality tests and then reported sociometric choices at different points of developing acquaintance (1 month; 3 months; 8 months). Whilst similarity on the CPI mediated sociometric choices at none of these points, similarity on Allport-Vernon Study of Values predicted choices only at Time 2 (P < 0.01), and the Reptest only at Time 3 (P < 0.01). Results are discussed in terms of systematic test of models of partner's personality in acquaintance and it is suggested that a search not for the correct measure of personality but for the relative place of each measure in developing acquaintance will lead towards the resolution of several existing ambiguities in the attraction literature.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Personality similarity and the development of friendship: A longitudinal study
- Creators
- Steven W. Duck - Lancaster University GhanaGordon Craig - Lancaster University Ghana
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Vol.17(3), pp.237-242
- Edition
- Received 3 June 1977; revised version received 24 September 1977
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00272.x
- ISSN
- 0007-1293
- eISSN
- 2044-8260
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/1978
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984397937202771
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