General Factor of Personality Questionnaire (GFPQ): Only one Factor to Understand Personality?

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Amigó ◽  
Antonio Caselles ◽  
Joan C. Micó
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Approach And Avoidance ◽  
Sensitivity To Reward ◽  
General Factor Of Personality ◽  
Sensitivity To Punishment

This study proposes a psychometric approach to assess the General Factor of Personality (GFP) to explain the whole personality. This approach defends the existence of one basic factor that represents the overall personality. The General Factor of Personality Questionnaire (GFPQ) is presented to measure the basic, combined trait of the complete personality. The questionnaire includes 20 items and is constituted by two scales with 10 items each one: the Extraversion Scale (ES) and the Introversion Scale (IS). The GFPQ shows adequate internal consistency and construct validity, while the relationships with the personality factors of other models and with psychopathology are as expected. It correlates positively and significantly with Extraversion (E) and Psychoticism (P), and negatively with Neuroticism (N) of Eysenck's EPQ (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire); it correlates positively and significantly with the Sensation Seeking Scaled (SSS) of Zuckerman, and is inside the expected direction with Sensitivity to Reward (SR) and Sensitivity to Punishment (SP) of the Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire (SPSRQ), which represent the approach and avoidance trends of behavior, respectively. It not only relates negatively with the personality disorders of the anxiety spectrum, but also with the emotional disorders in relation to anxiety and depression, and it relates positively with the antisocial personality disorder.

The Underlying Traits of the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP)

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Generós Ortet ◽  
Manuel Ignacio Ibáñez ◽  
Adrián Llerena ◽  
Rafael Torrubia
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Sensitivity To Punishment

Summary: This research studies the factor structure of the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP) and its location within Eysenck's three broad dimensions of personality: psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism. A series of factor analyses and structural equations with the KSP and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-R) scales were carried out. The relationships between KSP and other biologically rooted personality traits (Zuckerman's sensation seeking and Gray's sensitivity to punishment) were also investigated. The results showed four underlying traits of the KSP: negative emotionality, aggressive nonconformity, impulsive unsocialized sensation seeking, and social withdrawal. Negative emotionality was mainly related to neuroticism; aggressive nonconformity was associated with psychoticism and, to a lesser degree, with neuroticism; impulsive unsocialized sensation seeking was correlated with both psychoticism and extraversion; and social withdrawal was principally related to low extraversion.

No Evidence that Social Desirability Response Set Explains the General Factor of Personality and Its Affective Correlates

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Philippe Rushton ◽  
Stephen Erdle
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
General Factor Of Personality ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Before And After

AbstractIn two studies, the General Factor of Personality (GFP) remained intact after controlling for the Lie scale from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, despite the Lie Scale showing significant correlations with the GFP defining traits. In Study 1, a re-analysis of 29 self-ratings from 322 pairs of twins (644 individuals) yielded a GFP both before and after controlling for social desirability. In Study 2, four measures of affect in 133 university students loaded on a GFP both before and after controlling for social desirability such that those high on the GFP were high in self-esteem and positive affect and low in depression and negative affect. These results join those from other studies failing to find evidence that the GFP is merely an artifact of evaluative bias.

Personality in Assaultive and Non-Assaultive Juvenile Male Offenders

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby Berman ◽  
Timothy Paisey
Keyword(s):  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Juvenile Male ◽  
Male Offenders ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale ◽  
Juvenile Males ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Property Offenses

The present study investigated the relationship between antisocial behavior and personality in 30 American juvenile males convicted of offenses including assault or confrontations with a victim, and 30 juvenile males convicted of offenses involving property without confrontation with a victim. Subjects, who were aged 14 to 17 yr. (mean 15 yr., 8 mo.) and held in detention pending sentencing, were administered the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Zuckerman Sensation Seeking Scale. Juveniles convicted of assaultive offenses exhibited significantly higher psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism scores, and lower lie scores than those convicted of property offenses. Sensation-seeking scores were significantly lower for the non-assaultive group. Results support Eysenck's description of dimensions of offenders' behavior.

National Differences in Personality: Iceland and England

1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 999-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sybil B. G. Eysenck ◽  
Erlendur Haraldsson
Keyword(s):  
Personality Factors ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
National Differences

577 men and 567 women were given the 101-item version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, translated into Icelandic. Although some items were inappropriate for use in Iceland, a viable scoring key was suggested and all reliabilities, except perhaps for Psychoticism, were satisfactory. Indices of factor comparison showed very clearly identical factors in both countries. Icelandic and British subjects were compared on the personality factors, using reduced scales comprising only items both scoring keys shared; Icelandic subjects scored lower on all factors, although not always at a statistically significant level.

General Factor of Personality Questionnaire

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Amigó ◽  
Antonio Caselles ◽  
Joan C. Micó
Keyword(s):  
General Factor ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
General Factor Of Personality

Exploring More on the Effects of Psychological Self-Help Paperbacks

1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 891-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Forest
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Treatment Condition ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Reading Condition ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Personality Questionnaires

Three studies examined the influence of paperbacks about psychological self-help on responses to personality questionnaires. Each study consisted of a 2 × 3 design that varied presence or absence of a pretest on a personality questionnaire and an intervening treatment condition which involved reading either one of two self-help books or reading no book. The dependent measures were posttest scale scores on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Tennessee Self-concept Scale and the 16 Personality Factors questionnaire. The effects of 6 self-help paperbacks, tested in pairs, were examined over the 3 experiments. Multivariate analysis of variance showed that the reading condition was nonsignificant across all experiments while the pretest condition was a significant factor for only one questionnaire.

Bulimic Symptomatology and Personality Factors in a Nonclinical Sample: A Replication

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Geissler ◽  
I. W. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Positive Association ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Bulimic Symptoms ◽  
Nonclinical Sample ◽  
The Relationship

Analysis of 102 undergraduate women's responses replicated the 1993 findings of Janzen, Saklofske, and Kelly considering the relationship between personality characteristics based on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire—Revised and bulimic symptomatology as measured by the BULIT—R. Consistent with Janzen, et al., the strongest relationship with bulimic symptomatology was for Neuroticism. Also consistent was the lack of relationship with Extraversion scores. At variance with the earlier findings was a weak positive association between reports of bulimic symptoms and scores on Psychoticism.

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