USING EXAMPLES IN REPERTORY GRIDS: THE INFLUENCE ON CONSTRUCT ELICITATION

The administration of repertory grids often involves the use of one or more examples as an illustration for participants. In an attempt to investigate the effects of different kinds of examples, a group of raters was asked to categorize constructs that had been elicited under two different conditions, using either descriptive examples or neutral examples. Descriptive examples elicited more personally revealing, as opposed to factual, construct dimensions. These results were interpreted within the context of other recent work that has shown significant differences following from sometimes subtle variations in repertory grid procedures.