Testing a dual-process-inspired questionnaire-primary residual framework for personality prediction: an exploratory study with static line drawings.
- 1School of Design Art, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, Fujian, China.
- 2School of Computer and Information Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, Fujian, China.
Abstract
Comprehensive self-report personality inventories can impose substantial response burden, motivating the development of more efficient assessment strategies and the exploration of complementary information sources. Guided by Dual-Process Theory, this exploratory study examined a questionnaire-primary residual fusion framework in which a reduced questionnaire response vector served as the main predictive source, while static abstract line drawings were evaluated as a bounded auxiliary source of information. A total of 100 participants completed the 187-item Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and provided unprompted abstract line drawings. To account for the small sample size and reduce optimistic bias, we used participant-level repeated cross-validation, fold-local questionnaire item selection, standardized image preprocessing, cross-fitted residual learning, and nested selection of the visual correction scale. The reduced questionnaire provided a useful but imperfect held-out approximation of the full-form 16PF reference scores, with factor-level Pearson correlations ranging from 0.34 to 0.78. In contrast, the static drawing modality did not provide stable incremental predictive value. Nested validation selected a zero visual correction in 21 of 25 outer folds, and the fixed scale originally proposed for visual correction (0.05) produced a slightly higher mean absolute error than the questionnaire-only condition (1.2120 vs. 1.2100). An exploratory analysis using teacher-provided observer ratings likewise showed no advantage for visual fusion over questionnaire-only prediction. These findings indicate that Dual-Process Theory can motivate a testable asymmetric framework for integrating explicit and non-verbal information, but the present data do not support static final line drawings as a reliable source of incremental personality information. Future research should examine richer process-level drawing signals, including stroke timing, pauses, pressure, and trajectory dynamics, in larger independent samples.
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BibTeX
@article{weng2026testing,
title = {{Testing a dual-process-inspired questionnaire-primary residual framework for personality prediction: an exploratory study with static line drawings.}},
author = {Lifen Weng and Yiyang Shi},
journal = {Frontiers in psychology},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1873771},
url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42923161},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Testing a dual-process-inspired questionnaire-primary residual framework for personality prediction: an exploratory study with static line drawings.
AU - Lifen Weng
AU - Yiyang Shi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/08
JO - Frontiers in psychology
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1873771
UR - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42923161
AB - Comprehensive self-report personality inventories can impose substantial response burden, motivating the development of more efficient assessment strategies and the exploration of complementary information sources. Guided by Dual-Process Theory, this exploratory study examined a questionnaire-primary residual fusion framework in which a reduced questionnaire response vector served as the main predictive source, while static abstract line drawings were evaluated as a bounded auxiliary source of information. A total of 100 participants completed the 187-item Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and provided unprompted abstract line drawings. To account for the small sample size and reduce optimistic bias, we used participant-level repeated cross-validation, fold-local questionnaire item selection, standardized image preprocessing, cross-fitted residual learning, and nested selection of the visual correction scale. The reduced questionnaire provided a useful but imperfect held-out approximation of the full-form 16PF reference scores, with factor-level Pearson correlations ranging from 0.34 to 0.78. In contrast, the static drawing modality did not provide stable incremental predictive value. Nested validation selected a zero visual correction in 21 of 25 outer folds, and the fixed scale originally proposed for visual correction (0.05) produced a slightly higher mean absolute error than the questionnaire-only condition (1.2120 vs. 1.2100). An exploratory analysis using teacher-provided observer ratings likewise showed no advantage for visual fusion over questionnaire-only prediction. These findings indicate that Dual-Process Theory can motivate a testable asymmetric framework for integrating explicit and non-verbal information, but the present data do not support static final line drawings as a reliable source of incremental personality information. Future research should examine richer process-level drawing signals, including stroke timing, pauses, pressure, and trajectory dynamics, in larger independent samples.
SN - 1664-1078
ER -