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How Does One Study “Behavior”? How Does One Study “Behavior”?
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Using Self-reports as Transducers of Behavioral Acts Using Self-reports as Transducers of Behavioral Acts
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A Bottom-Up Approach to Developing Aggregates of Self-Reported Behavioral Acts: From 400 Acts to 60 Act Clusters A Bottom-Up Approach to Developing Aggregates of Self-Reported Behavioral Acts: From 400 Acts to 60 Act Clusters
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Predicting Each of the 22 Most Reliable Act Clusters from Demographic and Personality Variables Predicting Each of the 22 Most Reliable Act Clusters from Demographic and Personality Variables
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Using Act Clusters as One Type of Criterion for the Evaluation of Personality Measures Using Act Clusters as One Type of Criterion for the Evaluation of Personality Measures
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Developing Measures of Avocational Interests as Indexed by the Reported Amount of Time Spent Engaging in Different Types of Interest-Related Activities Developing Measures of Avocational Interests as Indexed by the Reported Amount of Time Spent Engaging in Different Types of Interest-Related Activities
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Relations between Avocational Interest Patterns and Other Individual Differences Relations between Avocational Interest Patterns and Other Individual Differences
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Now to the Bottom Line: Can Avocational Interest Patterns Add to the Validity of Predictions of Reports by Knowledgeable Informants? Now to the Bottom Line: Can Avocational Interest Patterns Add to the Validity of Predictions of Reports by Knowledgeable Informants?
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Some Conclusions and Implications Some Conclusions and Implications
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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Appendix A: The Items in Eight New Vocational Interest Scales (89 Items) Appendix A: The Items in Eight New Vocational Interest Scales (89 Items)
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Appendix B: Thirty-Three Preliminary Avocational Interest Scales Appendix B: Thirty-Three Preliminary Avocational Interest Scales
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References References
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11 11 Personality, Demographics, and Self-Reported Behavioral Acts: The Development of Avocational Interest Scales from Estimates of the Amount of Time Spent in Interest-Related Activities
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Published:November 2009
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Abstract
In this chapter, the author notes that it is one thing to develop a new measure of some individual difference; it is another to establish its utility as a predictor of important human behaviors. The author shows very explicitly that who you are indeed affects what you do in everyday life. Clearly vocational interest patterns have proven their worth over the years. What about avocational interests, as measured by self-reports of the relative frequency of individuals’ engagement in various interest-related activities? The author presents a survey of behavioral act frequencies for a wide-ranging array of daily activities in a community wide sample. These provide the basic data from which to assess important individual differences in lifestyles. Such patterns of lifestyle differences, then, might ultimately be useful as criteria.
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