External assessment
In the context of psychological diagnostics, external assessment is understood to mean the inclusion of third party judgments about the person to be diagnosed, which supplement their self- assessment and other information obtained by the diagnostician. In the context of multimodal diagnostics , this is used to compare information found on the basis of different data levels and sources in order to e.g. B. Determine contradictions between the self-assessment of the person concerned and the external assessment in his environment, which can be the causes or conditions of conflicts and problem behavior.
The judgment of others can be subject to judgment tendencies or errors as well as the self-judgment, neither have the claim of "objective correctness".
examples are
- Comparison between a person's self-assessment and the corresponding external assessment (external image) by the partner, cf. z. B. Casting test
- Personnel diagnostics : comparison between the self-assessment of a superior with the corresponding external assessment by subordinates, see also superior assessment or 360 ° feedback
- Diagnosis of children and adolescents: assessment of the particular personality traits and development by parents or teachers if the capacity for self-reflection is diagnosed not yet sufficiently developed for a differentiated own review.
Individual evidence
- ↑ External assessment procedure in DORSCH Lexicon of Psychology
- ↑ Lothar Schmidt-Atzert, Manfred Amelang: Psychological Diagnostics (textbook) Springer Verlag 2012, p. 151 ff illustrated using the example of aggressiveness
- ↑ Birgit Brouër: Self-Assessment in Learning Environments Open to Self-Organization Julius Klinkhardt 2014 p. 85 ff