Dreiecksschluss

20:30 Oct 23, 2015 

@Oliver Toogood.... seems the verdict hasn't come in your way.......

16:45 Oct 23, 2015 

might well be a play on Umkehrschluss, Fehlschluss, in the sense of "rule, theorem"; but not an actual rule("sozusagen"), but one made up, here, for illustrative purposes

13:10 Oct 23, 2015 

Many thanks ladies, for your diligent efforts! While "triadic closure" seems to fit the meaning, I'm inclining back toward Armorel's original suggestion. Given the "sozusagen," the term seems to be used in a metaphorical sense, a "coined" word in this context, whereas "triadic closure" sounds like an actual technical term, which it seems it is not in my case. Here's what I've got for the segment: "This results in what one might call a 'closed triangle': Those who want to go high on the career ladder (and are willing to exert themselves to do so) are also keen to make contact in social situations and interact with others (rCOM, SO = .33), and, judging from their own statements, they are more eager to promote their personal goals, if necessary against opposition(rCOM, DO = .30)."
EN = Engagement (German) = Commitment (English); SO = Social Competence; DO = Dominance
Armorel, if you'd like, post your original answer. I'll wait and see if others speak up before closing the question.

12:43 Oct 23, 2015 

Okay, I've checked five different architecture dicts, none of which have a translation for this particular term But THEN, it occured to me, that the image could be referring to a PYRAMID. "This brings one, so to speak, to the top of the pyramid..."

12:16 Oct 23, 2015 

So the architectural metaphor could also be accurate, when the term in the ST has been misspelled. Here, the Dreickschluss is called a delta circuit element. The idea is that the three points (although it looks like four on the google images) gather to form a pointed roof (number 5 under CLAIMS). So this would be a good metaphor for someone striving to reach the pinnacle.
http://www.google.com/patents/DE3607790A1?cl=en
(3) by means of a delta circuit element. (5)

12:02 Oct 23, 2015 

DO is Dominanz (but I don't think that is part of the triangle)

11:54 Oct 23, 2015 

... I believe that EN is Engagement (the German term), SO is Sozialkompetenz and ST is Stabilität. The text is about how these three dimensions of a personality test are correlated.

11:49 Oct 23, 2015 

The Go-getter is him/her self IN the triadic closure (?), having connected to all three (?) predominant aspects of attaining success. Can someone enlighten me on the abbreviatiosn?

11:40 Oct 23, 2015 

Take a close look: there is "Dreieckschluss" (just one "s" after the triangle) and that term relates to architecture - something completely different. "Dreiecksschluss" (two "s" after the triangle) is rather rare and in some cases a misspelling.

11:34 Oct 23, 2015 

Actually, there are quite a few G-hits on the German Google:
https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=dreieckschluss -dict.cc...

08:44 Oct 23, 2015 

Let's give it a whirl.

08:33 Oct 23, 2015 

that "triadic closure" is likely to be right here. I think Ramey should post it as an answer.

08:05 Oct 23, 2015 

I cannot find any reference to Dreiecksschluss in the German text, yet the concept could be what is described here - only transferred onto one individual. There's an insane trend towards transferring terminology to fit one's own definition these days...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simmel#Social_geometry

07:43 Oct 23, 2015 

I hadn't heard the term, but that Wikipedia definition says "Triadic closure is the property among three nodes A, B, and C, such that if a strong tie exists between A-B and A-C, there is a weak or strong tie between B-C." which is indeed precisely what I am describing .

It s particulary interesting that Wikipedia says the term was coined by a German, Georg Simmel, in a book called "Soziologie" - so it was presumably originally a German term. Did he call it "Dreieckschluss", I wonder?

07:34 Oct 23, 2015 

as Armorel states it, you come up with "triadic closure", a term from social media, which refers to relationships between three people. Perhaps this is an analogy for the same?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadic_closure

07:24 Oct 23, 2015 

r is the usual symbol for the correlation coefficient (probably the Pearson product moment coefficient) - it can take values between 0 and 1 (or -1 if there is a negative correlation). So the text is simply saying, for example, that there is a correlation of r = .32 between the two dimensions EN and ST - that's a modest but nevertheless clear correlation. All very standard statistical stuff.

For me the image of the 3 linked points of a triangle is clear here - perhaps "completing the triangle" would work if "closing the triangle" doesn't.

06:36 Oct 23, 2015 

for "Dreiecksschluss" with the exception of the text which you mention (Petra Galléri, Carolin Winter) - so it's probably an invented term.
My father used to say that one would have to "um drei Ecken denken" whenever a solution to a problem could not be found by direct approach. A common translation of "um die Ecke denken" seems to be "to think laterally". Might this lead somewhere in this context?

22:38 Oct 22, 2015 

Ooof, I don't know. My husband found "correlation coefficient" in a list of English statistics symbols. However, I don't need to translate this, assuming the abbreviation is the same in English and German. I was only trying to understand the sentence!

22:24 Oct 22, 2015 

Found on p. 206 here:
https://goo.gl/7Z4p60
Anmerkungen k= Anzahl der Effektstärken; N= Anzahl der Teilnehmer; r= Populationskorrelation; p= attenuationskorrigierte Populationskorrelation.

21:31 Oct 22, 2015 

It turns out that the Word file given to me by the client did not capture the actual formatting of the PDF it came from: The format should be r[subscript EN,ST] etc. I still don't know what the "r" stands for, but the formatting might (?) have given me a clue to look at the factor abbreviations.

21:03 Oct 22, 2015 

if „Schluss“ - rule, theorem, and sticking with the image of the triangle as Armorel described it, one could maybe say
" ... in line, as it were, with the rule of the equilateral triangle..."

20:58 Oct 22, 2015 

Thanks, Armorel. I didn't think of those ENs and STs and SOs as being abbreviations of the factors discussed in the BIP inventory, but assumed that they (with the "r" in front) were some sort of statistical mumbo-jumbo hitherto unknown to me! I don't think "closing the triangle" will work as a translation, but you've given me the concept. Do you know what the "r" means?

20:06 Oct 22, 2015 

I think this is the meaning of "Dreieckschluss", although whether it works as a translation is less certain.

I happen to have the full version of this text, which says

"Wer robust mit beruflichen Belastungen umgeht, ist eher bereit, sich in besonderem Maße zu engagieren (rEN,ST = .32). Wer sich darüber hinaus als emotional stabil und selbstbewusst beschreibt, geht auch vermehrt aktiv auf andere zu (rSO,ST = .31). Hieraus ergibt sich, sozusagen im Dreiecksschluss: Wer auf der Karriereleiter hoch hinaus will (und zu entsprechenden Anstrengungen bereit ist, s. o.), bemüht sich auch in sozialen Situationen aktiv aufzutreten, um Kontakte zu knüpfen und auf andere einzuwirken (rEN,SO = .33) ..."

If we imagine EN, SO and ST as the 3 points of a triangle, the text first says that EN and ST are linked - so that's a line between the two points. Then we find that SO and ST are linked - so both EN and SO are linked to ST, giving us a V shape. Finally, "sozusagen im Dreieckschluss" we find that EN and SO are also correlated - so that is a line between EN and SO, forming the third side of the triangle and closing it up.

18:35 Oct 22, 2015 

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