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Reflections on different labels for Factor V
No full textOstendorf F, Angleitner A. Reflections on different labels for Factor V. European Journal of Personality. 1994;8(4):341-349.Discrepancies among different versions of Factor V may be largely explained by differences in the personality definitions and the variable selections used in various national trait taxonomies. Like any other social category the fifth factor has fuzzy boundaries and its meaning depends on the number and prototypicality of the exemplars included in the category. Resulting from taxonomies of traits (Norman, 1967; Goldberg, 1990) or dispositions (Ostendorf, 1990) the Five-Factor Model is not intended to represent or capable of representing the structure of all individual differences (e.g. attitudes, physical characteristics). Clear Intellect and Imagination versions of Factor V have only resulted from taxonomies including abilities and talents in their trait definition. The meaning of at least three of the Big Five would probably change if values - which we view as action prescriptions or behavioural intentions - were regarded as dispositions. Intellect, Imagination, and Creativity are the most prototypical attributes belonging to the core of Factor V. Comparisons among the various personality definitions and the procedures currently used in trait taxonomic research are needed to examine their effects on the replicability and the meaning of Factor V
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Protecting biodiversity on northern Kimberley pastoral leases to achieve broad scale conservation and social outcomes
No full textBertram Ostendorf, Dorothy Turner, and Liberty Old
Trait structure: Abridged-Circumplex versus hierarchical conceptions
No full textHofstee WKB, Boomsma A, Ostendorf F. Trait structure: Abridged-Circumplex versus hierarchical conceptions. In: Riemann R, Spinath FM, Ostendorf F, eds. Personality and temperament: Genetics, evolution, and structure. Lengerich: Pabst Scientific Publishers; 2001: 207-215
Descriptive consistency and social desirability in self- and peer reports
No full textBorkenau P, Ostendorf F. Descriptive consistency and social desirability in self- and peer reports. European Journal of Personality. 1989;3(1):31-45.In the present study, 300 subjects were administered 20 sets of four trait-descriptive terms where aspects of content and evaluation were unconfounded (e.g., firm, severe, lenient, and lax). Each subject was also evaluated by three peers using the same sets of four trait terms. Moreover, the subjects responded to several personality inventories and rating scales, and they were also described on these rating scales by their peers. The results showed that the subjects frequently ascribed to themselves or to their peers two favourable trait terms that were descriptively inconsistent (e.g., firm and lenient). A measure of individual differences in socially desirable responding was constructed by summing all desirable responses. Subjects who described themselves in a socially desirable manner were less neurotic and more conscientious according to self-reports as well as peer reports. Several implications of the findings are discussed, and the present social desirability (SD) measure is compared with several well-known desirability scales
Modelling of fluxes in a spruce forest catchment of the Fichtelgebirge
No full textJ.D. Tenhunen, E. Falge, R. Ryel, B. Manderscheid, K. Peters, B. Ostendorf, V. Joss and G. Lischei
Mapping surface and subsurface soil properties using geophysical remote sensing ansd regolith information
No full textDavid Mitchell, Megan Lewis, Bertram Ostendorf & David Chittleboroug
Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln hanging their Christmas wreath on their front door in Springfield, Illinois in 1860
No full textGreeting card from Lincoln Memorial University. Its front features a Lloyd Ostendorf illustration of Abraham Lincoln hanging a wreath on a door with Mary Todd Lincoln. The inside includes a Christmas greeting.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-ephemera/1232/thumbnail.jp
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