repertory grid and constructs

Repertory grid technique did seem to elicit constructs which may be central to how I construe the world. I found that most of the constructs had to do with motivation or conscientious, for instance the dimensions of motivated vs unmotivated, or disciplined vs undisciplined. I think because I am very future-oriented and place a great deal of value on being disciplined and motivated, I tend to evaluate people along that dimension, and so it was a common difference that came up when comparing three people I know. Others in my group did have rather different constructs, for instance someone had the construct of educated vs uneducated, which I typically don’t pay much attention to as I don’t place too much value on one’s education. I would have thought that these differences were because of the people being rated, but I believe a great deal does have to do with the people doing the rating and how they construe the world, as demonstrated by my own example, as I focus a great deal on the future and future success, and tend to pay attention to characteristics within individual that would be adaptive in that regard or alternatively, maladaptive. I believe Butt would hope that we see that it has to do mainly with the people doing the rating, as he took to George Kelly’s thinking that people’s construals of the world mattered a great deal in what constructs were central in their evaluations of people and other objects. Butt, like Kelly, emphasized how people’s construals of the world influenced their psychology, focusing much less on inherent characteristics or traits.