naa a22 4500 51077704X CHVBK 20180411083234.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.3758/s13428-013-0315-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.3758/s13428-013-0315-4 Internal consistency: Reports of its death are premature [Elektronische Daten] [Ronald Holden, Ira Bernstein] McCrae, Kurtz, Yamagata, and Terracciano (Personality and Social Psychology Review 15:28-50, 2011) presented data supporting the position that test-retest reliability is more important for methods of personality assessment than is internal-consistency reliability. We raise two points not adequately considered in their findings. First, not all personality assessment is concerned with assessing traits, for which temporal stability is clearly important. Much research (e.g., therapy outcome studies) is concerned with assessing states, in which an emphasis on temporal stability can lead to the underestimation of change. Second, we suggest that using the literature as a basis for their position causes the role of internal consistency to be underestimated. This is because manuscripts are frequently rejected because their measures possess low internal consistency, but are rarely rejected because of low temporal stability. Thus, the effects of internal consistency are range-restricted to an unknown amount, because investigators do not have access to studies that have been rejected due to low internal consistency. Psychonomic Society, Inc., 2013 Internal consistency nationallicence Test construction methods nationallicence Personality assessment nationallicence Holden Ronald Department of Psychology, Queen's University, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada aut Bernstein Ira Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA aut Behavior Research Methods Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 45/4(2013-12-01), 946-949 45:4<946 2013 45 13428 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-013-0315-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-013-0315-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Holden Ronald Department of Psychology, Queen's University, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bernstein Ira Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Behavior Research Methods Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 45/4(2013-12-01), 946-949 45:4<946 2013 45 13428 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer