Equivalence Of Personality Structure In Leary\u27S Interpersonal System Of Diagnosis.

The Leary system of interpersonal diagnosis was introduced in its entirety during 1957 as a descriptive alternative to traditional psychiatric assessment involving interpersonal behavior. It attempts to provide a conceptual and measurement framework by removing rating discrepancies among data sources from the realm of undesirable distortions vis-a-vis True traits, and by relating these discrepancies to processes such as conflict and identification in an operational fashion. The basic premise supporting operational definitions such as conflict and identification requires that the structural interrelations of interpersonal variables be similar regardless of the data source from which obtained. If this premise were to hold, it then becomes psychometrically feasible to measure and compare interpersonal operations gathered from diverse data sources. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate whether Leary’s (1957) structural model of interpersonal behavior can be demonstrated to hold for the three data levels defined by Leary