1 Personality Traits and Psychological Explanation.- 1.1 Personality traits as psychological structures.- 1.2 Personality traits as psychological constructs.- 1.3 Structures versus constructs.- 1.4 Models of explanation.- 1.5 How traits can explain behavior.- 1.6 Implications.- 2 Consistency in Personality Measurement.- 2.1 Actor and observer viewpoints.- 2.2 Empirical studies of consistency: Overview.- 2.3 Consistency as a moderator variable.- 2.4 Consistency as scalability.- 2.5 Summary.- 3 Scalability and Elevation.- 3.1 Elevation.- 3.2 Scalability.- 3.3 Some statistical properties of elevation and scalability.- 3.4 Anticipated relations among measures of elevation, scalability, and variability.- 3.5 Scalability and response idiosyncrasy.- 3.6 Why measure scalability?.- 4 A Single Trait Measure of Scalability.- 4.1 Overview.- 4.2 Pretest: Scaling of behaviors.- 4.3 Main study.- 4.4 Discussion.- 5 Development of the Situation Behavior Inventory.- 5.1 Sampling considerations.- 5.2 Iterative refinement of the SBI.- 5.3 Scaling of behaviors.- 5.4 Summary.- 6 Scalability and Elevation as Measured by the SBI.- 6.1 Methods.- 6.2 Scoring and scale construction.- 6.3 Results - Internal analyses.- 6.4 Results - External analyses.- 6.5 Discussion.- 7 Scalability on Standard Personality Inventories.- 7.1 Four interpretations of individual differences in consistency.- 7.2 Distinguishing between different interpretations of consistency.- 7.3 Method.- 7.4 Results.- 7.5 Discussion.- 7.6 Summary.- 8 Scalability Re-examined.- 8.1 Review of findings.- 8.2 Traits reconsidered.- 8.3 Scalability and authoritarianism: Rationale.- 8.4 Scalability and authoritarianism: Reanalysis of the SBI data.- 8.5 Towards reconciliation of psychometric and idiographic approaches to personality.- References.- Appendix 1- Situation Behavior Inventory (SBI).- Instructions.- Items.- SBI Scale composition: Non-extreme scales.- Appendix 2 - Programs for Computing Scalability.- Pascal program for VM/CMS.- SAS program: Proc MATRIX routine.

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