{"id":2,"date":"2016-09-28T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T16:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:51:37","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personality, Psychopathology, and Assessment Lab<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Broadly, our lab seeks to understand how basic personality structures and processes (e.g., temperament, self-beliefs\/schemata, goals, moral standards) contribute to individual differences and to clinical syndromes (e.g., depression, trauma-related disorders, personality disorders, etc.). We are also very interested in applying social cognitive approaches to personality to clinical personality assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recommended Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The following articles are recommended for undergraduates who are interested in becoming involved in our lab activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Scott, W. D.,\u202f*Paup, S., &amp; Kirchhoff, C. (2021).\u202f Clinical application of social cognitive theory: A novel personality assessment procedure and a case study of personality coherence.\u202f\u202fEuropean Journal of Personality.\u202fDOI: 10.1177\/08902070211028362<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scott, W. D., Penningroth, S. L., *Paup, S., Li, X., Adams, D., &amp; *Mallory, B. (2021).\u202f The Relational Self-Schema Measure: Assessing psychological needs in multiple self-with-other representations.\u202f\u202fJournal of Personality Assessment. DOI:10.1080\/00223891.2021.1900207<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scott, W. D., *Tyser, J., Penningroth, S. L., &amp; *Strauch, C. (2022).\u202f Assessing self-schema content: The relationship of psychological needs to early maladaptive schemas, rejection sensitivity, and personality traits.\u202f\u202fSelf and Identity,\u202fDOI: 10.1080\/15298868.2021.1895882<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*McDougall, K. H., &amp;\u202fScott, W. D.\u202f(2021).\u202f The Self-Efficacy for Parenting Adolescents Scale: Development and Initial Validation.\u202f\u202fJournal of Child and Family Studies,\u202f30(9), 2289-2302.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scott, W. D., &amp; Cervone, D. (2016).\u202f Social cognitive personality assessment: A case conceptualization procedure and illustration.\u202f\u202fCognitive and Behavioral Practice, 23, 79-98.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Developing new approaches to assessing personality and conceptualizing clinical cases. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our lab is involved in applying advances in social cognitive theory to personality assessment and clinical case conceptualization (see Scott &amp; Cervone, 2016; Scott, Paup, &amp; Kirchhoff, 2021).&nbsp; How does one measure temperament, self-schemata, goals, personal\/moral standards in a manner that is consistent with how these personality structures are conceptualized in current scientific thinking?&nbsp; For example, many psychological scientists conceptualize self-schemata as represented in memory in the form of multiple self-with-other representations (e.g., self-with-mom, self-with-friend, etc.).&nbsp; Recently we have been developing new methods of assessing self-schemata in line with these current conceptualizations of the self (see Scott, Penningroth et al., 2021; Scott, Tyser et al., 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Understanding the role of personality in clinical syndromes, such as depression.&nbsp; <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our lab is also involved in investigating how individual differences in personality structures\u2014temperament, self-schemata, goals and personal standard\/moral systems\u2014contribute to clinical syndromes such as depression and trauma-related disorders, as well as in how these disorders can influence these personality structures and processes (see Lindsay et al., 2005; Scott &amp; Cervone, 2002).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Conversation with Walter Scott<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-cta \" >\n\t<a \t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.ejp-blog.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/8\/a-conversation-with-walter-scott\"\t\n\t\tclass=\"wsu-button  wsu-button--style-action\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\tVisit the blog article with Walter Scott\t\t\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":914,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/personality-assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}