[The measurement of individual differences in interpersonal cognitive structure (6): Age and sex differences of perceivers (author's transl)].
The purpose of the present study was to examine age and sex differences in "implicit personality theories (IPT)." Forty-four undergraduates and 77 junior high school students served as subjects in personality perception as obtained by the Repertory Grid method. Responses were analyzed by means of Carroll and Chang's INDSCAL model. The results were: (a) The dimensional structure of IPT for the older subjects were more complicated than that for the younger ones; and (b) for the younger subjects, males perceived role persons in less differentiated manners than did females.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors