Interpersonal Correlates of Individuals' Discrepant Ratings by Self and Peers

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After 23 and after 48 hours in 16 small personal development groups, 78 participants rated their own and each other's within-group conduct on two interpersonal inventories. On 14 related substantive scales, individuals' ratings by self and by pooled group peers correlated appreciably (M r = .59), despite mean ratings by peers and self that differed significantly on 10 such scales. Following social desirability adjustments of all measures, individuals' mean composite discrepancies (self-rating minus mean rating from peers) over all scales of each inventory showed reasonable conceptual equivalence (r = .61). These composite discrepancies correlated more firmly with peers' substantive ratings than with self-ratings. For expressive prosocial scales (participates in group, self-discloses, etc.), favorable peers' ratings were associated with relatively modest self-ratings, whereas less positive peer ratings generally accompanied self-ratings that exceeded one's ratings by peers.

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