title: The Personal Acquaintance Measure: a tool for appraising one's acquaintance with any person.
abstract: The authors developed and evaluated the psychometric properties of the 18-item Personal Acquaintance Measure (PAM) and investigated how the PAM relates to self- other agreement in personality ratings. Results support that 6 factors represent the PAM (Duration, Frequency of Interaction, Knowledge of Goals, Physical Intimacy, Self-Disclosure, Social Network Familiarity), which showed evidence of internal consistency, test-retest reliability over 3 weeks, sensitivity to known group differences, discriminant validity from socially desirable responding, and convergent validity with other relationship inventories. Results also show that the PAM positively predicted self-other agreement. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for the PAM and research in person perception, although this measure may also be used in other research areas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. kstarzyk@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
authors.forename: Katherine B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Starzyk
authors.forename: Ronald R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Holden
authors.forename: Leandre R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Fabrigar
authors.forename: Tara K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Macdonald
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009864:Ontario; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012938:Social Perception; D013997:Time Factors