Between‐ and within‐person structures of personality: response to Cervone (2005)

Abstract

Our response to Cervone (2005) can be summarized as follows. The factor structure of intraindividual fluctuations in personality‐related variables does not bear on the evaluation of a model of (interindividual) personality structure. Even if such a model is associated with claims regarding the causal origins of its dimensions, this does not imply that the sources of between‐person differences would be expected to be the same as the sources of within‐person fluctuations. Moreover, observed differences between intraindividual and interindividual structures do not undermine the applicability of the latter to the description of individuals' personalities. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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