Factor Structure Invariance in the Children's Big Five Questionnaire

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria del Barrio ◽  
Miguel Angel Carrasco ◽  
Francisco Pablo Holgado
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Invariant Factor ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
And Gender

The factor structure invariance in the Big Five personality questionnaire was studied based on the self-reports of 852 Spanish children. Different degrees of invariance across age groups from 8 to 15 years old, and also according to gender, were investigated by means of confirmatory factor analysis with a matrix of polychoric correlations. The results provide empirical evidence for the invariant factor structure of the Big Five Questionnaire for Children (BFQ-C) measurement across age and gender in children. The five-factor structure, the factor pattern coefficients, the factor variances/co-variances and, finally, the theoretical constructs were all found to be reasonably invariant across these groups, and especially across gender. The five-factor model adequately represented the data for each of these groups. The implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals How response biases affect the factor structure of Big Five personality questionnaires

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabia Morales-Vives ◽  
Urbano Lorenzo-Seva ◽  
Andreu Vigil-Colet
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Response Biases

<p>Several studies have shown that personality self-reports may be affected by response biases, and that this may have consequences on their factor structure, especially in samples with little education or in adolescents. The current study aims to understand the effect of social desirability and acquiescence on the factor structure of three questionnaires based on the Five Factor Model of personality: the Big Five Inventory, the Five Factor Personality Inventory and the Overall Personality Assessment Scale. The data was analysed using a new method that removes the effects of both social desirability and acquiescence from the inter-item correlation matrix used for factor analysis. These effects were assessed in a sample of 392 university students, which contained no individuals with low educational levels, children or adolescents. The results showed that, even in samples with no individuals with low educational levels, controlling for social desirability and acquiescence led to a simpler factor structure that is more congruent with the theoretical solution expected from the five factor model. It also seems that in the domain of inventories based upon the five factor model, this effect may be specially due to acquiescence.</p>

Assessing the Big Five

2006 ◽  
Vol 214 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Schulze ◽  
Richard D. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Item Pool ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Initial Item

Abstract. A new measure of the Big Five personality constructs, the Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism Index Condensed (OCEANIC), was developed and validated. In Study 1 (N = 166), the convergent validity with the Big Five as assessed by the NEO-FFI was established. Study 2 (N = 3 808) served to investigate the structure of the instrument with stepwise exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The incremental predictive validity with respect to objective university grades was examined in Study 3 (N = 145). The results show that a) the scales of the initial item pool converge with those of an established measure of the Big Five, b) the Big Five factor model fits the data both at the item and facet level and both for subsamples of students and workers, and c) consistent with previous research, the Conscientiousness factor of the OCEANIC predicts university grades beyond intelligence measures.

Linking the Big Five personality constructs to organizational justice

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junqi Shi ◽  
Han Lin ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Mo Wang
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Field Sample ◽  
Informational Justice ◽  
Practical Implications

Although extensive research has been conducted to investigate various factors related to organizational justice, few studies have examined the link between personality traits and organizational justice. Using a field sample, we explored the relationships between the five-factor model of personality and organizational justice. Results indicated that agreeableness and neuroticism were important correlates of organizational justice. Specifically, agreeableness was found to be positively related to all four organizational justice components proposed by Colquitt (2001). Neuroticism was found to be negatively related to procedural justice and informational justice. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.

Thinking styles and the five‐factor model of personality

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 465-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li‐fang Zhang ◽  
Jiafen Huang
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Specific Pattern ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Complex Thinking ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory

The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between thinking styles and the big five personality dimensions. Four hundred and eight (149 males, 259 females) university students from Shanghai, mainland China, responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory and the NEO Five‐Factor Inventory. It was found that thinking styles and personality dimensions overlap to a degree. As predicted, the more creativity‐generating and more complex thinking styles were related to the extraversion and openness personality dimensions, and the more norm‐favouring and simplistic thinking styles were related to neuroticism. No specific pattern was identified in the relationships of thinking styles to the agreeableness and conscientiousness dimensions. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Open to experience—closed to intelligence: Why the ‘Big Five’ are really the ‘Comprehensive Six’

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris R. Brand
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Normal Population ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Fifth Dimension ◽  
Questionnaire Studies

The quasi‐consensual ‘Big Five’ personality variables of the Five Factor Model (FFM) have typically been advanced and welcomed as dimensions that are purely orectic. By contrast, people's differences in general intelligence (g) are held to exist in some separate, noetic, cognitive ‘domain’. However, the exclusion of g from the realm of personality cannot be sustained either theoretically or empirically. The FFM's ‘fifth’ dimension (whether called Intellect (from lexical studies) or Openness (from questionnaire studies)) would be substantially correlated with g in the general population—across a normal population range of IQ and Mental Age. FFM fifth factors are thus loaded too highly by aesthetic, cultural, and theoretical interests, while qualities of tender‐mindedness, sympathy, and trust are displaced to load on the Agreeableness dimension. FFM Agreeableness thus becomes highly value‐loaded: it literally pits ‘love’, ‘empathy’, and ‘co‐operation’ against ‘aggression’, ‘autonomy’ and ‘competition’. No such simple contrast is viable. Social theorists as varied as Adam Smith, Freud, Adler, and Lorenz have all rejected the option. No fewer than six major, independent dimensions of personality require recognition. These ‘Comprehensive Six’ are (g), neuroticism/emotionality (n), energy/extraversion (e), conscientiousness/control (c), will/independence (w), and affection/pathemia (a). These are essentially the same as those recovered most often in the work of Cattell, so they furnish a six‐dimensional model (SDM) having a long track record of cross‐cultural validation. Several look interpretable in terms of basic Freudian concepts; and, in the terms of folk psychology, the SDM's ‘Comprehensive Six’ might be considered to reflect individual differences in the qualities of the mind (g), the heart (n), the soul (a), the spirit (e), the will (w), and the conscience (c).

scholarly journals Development and preliminary validation of a Five Factor Model measure of Machiavellianism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Collison ◽  
Colin Vize ◽  
Josh Miller ◽  
Donald Lynam
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Promising Alternative ◽  
Preliminary Validation ◽  
Expert Ratings

Machiavellianism is characterized by planfulness, the ability to delay gratification, and interpersonal antagonism (i.e., manipulativeness and callousness). Although its theoretically positive relations with facets of conscientiousness should help distinguish Machiavellianism from psychopathy, current measurements of Machiavellianism are indistinguishable from those of psychopathy due mostly to their assessment of low conscientiousness. The goal of the present study was to create a measure of Machiavellianism that is more in line with theory using an expert-derived profile based on the thirty facets of the Five Factor Model (FFM) and then test the validity of that measure by comparing it to relevant constructs. Previously collected expert ratings of the prototypical Machiavellian individual on FFM facets yielded a profile of 13 facets including low agreeableness and high conscientiousness. Items were written to represent each facet, resulting in a 201-item Five Factor Machiavellianism Inventory (FFMI). Across two studies, with a total of 710 participants recruited via MTurk, the FFMI was reduced to its final 52-item form and was shown to relate as expected to measures of Big Five personality traits, current Machiavellianism measures, psychopathy, narcissism, ambition, and impulsivity. The FFMI is a promising alternative Machiavellianism measure.

scholarly journals Big Five Personality Detection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waiel Tinwala ◽  
Shristi Rauniyar
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Ocean Model ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Unconscious Bias ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Critical Feature ◽  
Big Five Model

Personality is the most critical feature that tells us about an individual. It is the collection of the individual&rsquo;s thoughts, opinions, emotions and more. Personality detection is an emerging field in research and Deep Learning models have only recently started being developed. There is a need for a larger dataset that is unbiased as the current dataset that is used is in the form of questionnaires that the individuals themselves answer, hence increasing the chance of unconscious bias. We have used the famous stream-of-consciousness essays collated by James Pennbaker and Laura King. We have used the Big Five Model often known as the five-factor model or OCEAN model. Document-level feature extraction has been performed using Google&rsquo;s word2vec embeddings and Mairesse features. The processed data has been fed into a deep convolutional network and a binary classifier has been used to classify the presence or absence of the personality trait. Hold- out method has been used to evaluate the model, and the F1 score has been used as the performance metric.

scholarly journals Five Factor Model in Iranian Culture: A Psychometrics Analysis of NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI)

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoochehr Azkhosh ◽  
Ali Asgari
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Explanatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory

This study aimed to investigate the construct validity and factor structure of NEO-Five Factor Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992) in Iranian population. Participants were 1639 (780 male, 859 female) Tehran people aged 15-71. The results of explanatory factor analysis showed no notable differences between the factor structures extracted by oblique and orthogonal rotations and didn’t replicate the scoring key. The Openness and Agreeableness had more psychometric problems (low internal consistency and high deleted items). The female’s NEO-FFI factor structure (with 41 items of 60 loaded on intended factors)was clearer than males’ (with 37 items). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the male’s latent modeling of the 31-item but failed to fit the female’s model. The women scored significantly higher in the Neuroticism, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness than men who scored significantly higher in the Extraversion. As previous findings, the current results showed the NEO-FFI’s cultural limitations assessing the universality of the Five Factor Model.

An Investigation of Personality Types within the HEXACO Personality Framework

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Ashton ◽  
Kibeom Lee
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Personality Types ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Multivariate Normal ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Peer Reports

Recent research aimed at identifying distinct personality types has generally searched for such types in the space of the dimensions of the Big Five or Five-Factor model. We extended this search to the space of the HEXACO model of personality structure, using data from a large community sample of adults. In a series of cluster analyses involving 3 to 7 clusters, the proportion of reliable variance in HEXACO dimensions that was accounted for by the types – i.e., clusters – was small, never exceeding that accounted for by clusters generated from random multivariate normal data. The predictive validity of the types and the dimensions was compared with respect to aggregated peer reports on the Big Five personality factors, and results showed that even the largest sets of HEXACO types accounted for only half as much variance as did the HEXACO dimensions. The results provide no evidence of meaningful personality types within the space of the HEXACO framework.

Linking job performance and big five personality traits of employees in Chandigarh IT sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelu Tuteja ◽  
P. K. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Big Five Personality

Present study investigates employees fromselectedIT companies in Chandigarh to explore the predictive validity of big five personality traits on their job performance and identify the relationship between personality traits and job performance. The Big Five Personality dimensions, commonly known as five factor model consists of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism. The BFI-Personality Inventory – Revised and self structured Performance Appraisal Questionnaire were used as measuring instruments. A Correlation analysis and Causal Study (Multiple Regression Analysis) was conducted on 404 employees of selected IT companies in Chandigarh to analyzepredictive relationship. Openness to Experience, Agreeableness and Extraversion emerged as significant correlates and predictors of job performance and explained 35.2% of the variance in participants’ management performance.Neuroticism was found to be a negative correlate. On the other hand, Conscientiousness trait had insignificant relation to the model. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

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