More recently, one study used the RSQ to examine perceptions of a broad range of situations and scores on a variety of personality measures (Sherman et al., 2013).
In this study participants came to the lab for five sessions.
During the first session, they completed a battery of personality measures.
At each subsequent session, participants wrote a short description of what they were doing the day before at a given time.
Participants then rated this situation using the RSQ. Next, consensual ratings of the descriptions written by participants were gathered from four research assistants who
independently read and rated each description.
These ratings were then used to partial out (i.e., remove) the consensual (objective)
portion of the original participants’ ratings of the situation with the RSQ, leaving only distinct construals of situations.
Analyses of these distinct construals showed that participants’ construals were consistent across the four situations. In other words, the ‘‘beta