Using Principal Component Scores to Enhance the Validity and Reliability of Big Five Personality Measures

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Cucina ◽  
Nicholas L. Vasilopoulos ◽  
Arwen H. DeCostanza
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Component Scores

Abstract. Varimax rotated principal component scores (VRPCS) have previously been offered as a possible solution to the non-orthogonality of scores for the Big Five factors. However, few researchers have examined the reliability and validity of VRPCS. To address this gap, we use a lab study and a field study to investigate whether using VRPCS increase orthogonality, reliability, and criterion-related validity. Compared to the traditional unit-weighting scoring method, the use of VRPCS enhanced the reliability and discriminant validity of the Big Five factors, although there was little improvement in criterion-related validity. Results are discussed in terms of the benefit of using VRPCS instead of traditional unit-weighted sum scores.

The Big Five Inventory (BFI)

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Fossati ◽  
Serena Borroni ◽  
Donatella Marchione ◽  
Cesare Maffei
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Reliability Factor ◽  
Validity Data ◽  
Big Five Inventory ◽  
Three Samples

The internal consistency reliability, factor structure, and convergent-discriminant validity of the Italian translation of the Big Five Inventory (BFI) were assessed in two independent samples of nonclinical adult volunteers (Sample 1: N = 500; Sample 2: N = 316) and in one sample of adolescent volunteers (Sample 3: N = 223). Two adult subsamples (n = 70, and n = 141, respectively) also provided 2-month retest reliability data. The internal consistency reliabilities were adequate for all five BFI scales (mean α values were .77, .78, and .81 for Sample 1, Sample 2, and Sample 3, respectively); all test-retest correlations were greater than .75 in both adult participant subsamples. Principal component analyses showed that only the first five components of the BFI item correlation matrix could be reproduced safely across the three samples. The BFI scales showed adequate convergent-discriminant validity coefficients in all three samples. These findings suggest that the BFI is a succinct measure of the Big Five personality traits and it provides satisfactory reliability and validity data.

A psycholexical Study of Virtues in the Dutch Language, and Relations between Virtues and Personality

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boele De Raad ◽  
Jan Pieter Van Oudenhoven
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personality Measures ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Principal Component Analyses ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
Big Five Factors

Following the psycholexical approach, a list of 153 virtue descriptors was selected from a previously constructed list of trait–terms, under the assumption that virtues form a subset of traits. The virtue list was administered to 400 participants (self– and other–raters), who had to indicate the extent to which each term applied to them or to the others. Principal Component Analyses were performed yielding six factors of virtues. In addition, Big Five factors and markers of an external set of virtues were constructed. Correlation and regression analyses were performed to describe the relations between virtues, the Dutch Big Five system and other virtue systems. Compared to the other virtue systems, the present study revealed some additional domains. The overlap found with personality measures corresponds to earlier findings supporting the assumption that virtues are important traits. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Unembodiment in the Internet. Part 2. Psychometric Verification of the Questionnaire

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-233
Author(s):  
N.V. Kopteva ◽  
A.Yu. Kalugin ◽  
L.Ya. Dorfman
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Embodied Self

The purpose of present study is to develop and verify the questionnaire aimed at assessing the degree of unembodiment in the Internet as a consequence of using modern information technologies. The use of modern information technologies is associated with disembodiment, liberation of the Self from the body and related experiences. Immersion in virtual reality and “disembodiment” can cause the existential position of “unembodiement”, the features of which, according to the concept of the English psychologist R. Lang, are most clearly manifested in the clinic of schizoids. The study was conducted in the form of a psychodiagnostic survey, during which the reliability and validity of the developed method for assessing unembodiement on the Internet was tested. The main sample of the study was 809 people (31% of males), mostly university students, aged 17 to 25 years (M=18.73; SD=0.98). Smaller samples were used to study convergent and discriminant validity: 423, 324, 148 and 128 people. Correlations with measures of psychological consequences of Internet use, self-efficacy and life-meaning orientations reported convergent validity, and correlations with measures of intelligence and creativity reported discriminant validity. The results of principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFI=0.936, TLI=0.925, RMSEA=0.055, SRMR=0.059) confirm the construct validity of the method, which includes three subscales (Unembodiment as Virtualization, The Preference of the Internet, and Vitality of the Embodied Self) and a general scale (Unembodiment in the Internet). The one-step reliability of the scales varied from 0.7 to 0.9. The scales Vitality of the Embodied Self and The Preference of the Internet had a high level of discrimination, the scale Unembodiment as virtualization ― moderate. The developed questionnaire meets the requirements of validity and reliability and can be used to study the phenomenon of unembodiment on the Internet.

Locating the Big Five Personality Factors in the Relate Relationship Evaluation Measures

2005 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 877-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Draper ◽  
Thomas B. Holman
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Evaluation Measures ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors

Factor analyses of data from 400 students who completed the adjective section of the Relate relationship evaluation and similar descriptors from the measure of the “big five” factors of personality by Digman and Inouye indicated that all of the “big five” measures, surgency, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness, can be assessed as part of the Relate assessment.

scholarly journals THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY FACTORS AND APPLICATION FIELDS / PENKI DIDIEJI ASMENYBĖS FAKTORIAI IR JŲ TAIKYMO KRYPTYS

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Agnė Matuliauskaitė ◽  
Lina Bartkienė ◽  
Jevgenija Rutė
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Student Knowledge ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Trait Theory ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Application Fields

The Big five factors are used in many research fields. The literature survey showed that the personality trait theory was used to study and explain relations with different variables. The article focuses on a brief description of methods that can help with identifying the Big five factors and considers the model for applying them in personnel selection. The paper looks at scientific researches assessing relations between the Big five factors and different variables such as job performance, academic performance, student knowledge management and evaluation.

scholarly journals Desarrollo de un Test de Homofobia / Development of a Homophobia Test

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Javier Oltra ◽  
Elena Huluta ◽  
Alejandro Rodríguez-Fernández ◽  
Eduardo García-Cueto
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Low Correlation

RESUMENAntecedentes: la homofobia se puede considerar como el prejuicio hacia el colectivo homosexual, caracterizado por la presencia tanto de actitud negativa como incomodidad, entendidas respectivamente como rechazo y temor. El objetivo del presente estudio ha sido crear una escala de medición de la homofobia que refleje el nivel de homofobia en la población, determinar si los Big Five de personalidad están relacionados con la homofobia y si existen diferencias por sexo, por edad y/o clase social en este constructo. Método: Se elaboró una escala de homofobia tipo likert que cuenta con 33 ítems. 521 personas contestaron a dicha escala además de a otra de medida de la clase social y al NEO-FFI (que evalúa los Big Five de la personalidad). Resultados: se han obtenido una fiabilidad y validez adecuadas de la escala creada. Al estudiar las relaciones entre la homofobia y las variables de personalidad y sociales se ha encontrado que existen correlaciones estadísticamente significativas entre la homofobia y los Big Five (correlaciones negativas con apertura y amabilidad, negativas y bajas con extraversión y responsabilidad, y positiva y baja con neuroticismo); se comprueba que hay diferencias en homofobia en función del sexo (siendo los hombres los que obtienen puntuaciones más altas) y de la clase social (siendo las clases Baja y Medio-Alta las que más alto puntúan), y se encuentran tendencias en edad. Conclusiones: las evidencias de validez y la fiabilidad halladas muestran que la escala creada es adecuada y que los datos obtenidos concuerdan con los de otras investigaciones. Además la escala aporta datos de la relación entre los Big Five y la clase social con la homofobia, pudiéndose tener en cuenta en futuras investigaciones.   ABSTRACTAntecedents: homophobia can be considered as the prejudice towards homosexuals, characterized by the presence of both negative attitude and discomfort, understood respectively as rejection and fear. The purpose of the present study was to create a measurement scale that indicates the homophobia level in any  sample, to determine if Big Five personality factors are related to homophobia and if there exists differences in homophobia given age, social status and sex. Method: a Likert Homophobia Scale with 33 items was constructed. 521 people answered the Homophobia scale, in addition with a social status measurement scale, and the NEO FFI (which evaluates five personality factors). Results: the reliability and validity of the Homophobia Scale obtained are considered appropriate. When studying the correlations between homophobia, personality and social variables, statistically significant correlations between Homophobia and the personality factors were found (negative correlation with Openness and Kindness, negative and low correlation with Extraversion and Responsibility, positive and low correlation with Neuroticism); differences in Homophobia given social status (Low and Medium-High social class get higher punctuations) and trends given age were found as well. Discussion: evidence of validity and reliability found prove that the scale is appropriate and that the data are consistent with other research. In addition, the scale provides data on the relation between Big Five and homophobia and the relation between social status and homophobia that could be used for future research.

Further Validity of the Japanese Version of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI-J)

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Oshio ◽  
Shingo Abe ◽  
Pino Cutrone ◽  
Samuel D. Gosling
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Big Five Personality

The Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003 ) is a widely used very brief measure of the Big Five personality dimensions. Oshio, Abe, and Cutrone (2012) have developed a Japanese version of the TIPI (TIPI-J), which demonstrated acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Until now, all studies examining the validity of the TIPI-J have been conducted in the Japanese language; this reliance on a single language raises concerns about the instrument’s content validity because the instrument could demonstrate reliability (e.g., retest) and some forms of validity (e.g., convergent) but still not capture the full range of the dimensions as originally conceptualized in English. Therefore, to test the content validity of the Japanese TIPI with respect to the original Big Five formulation, we examine the convergence between scores on the TIPI-J and scores on the English-language Big Five Inventory (i.e., the BFI-E), an instrument specifically designed to optimize Big Five content coverage. Two-hundred and twenty-eight Japanese undergraduate students, who were all learning English, completed the two instruments. The results of correlation analyses and structural equation modeling demonstrate the theorized congruence between the TIPI-J and the BFI-E, supporting the content validity of the TIPI-J.

scholarly journals Participation in Decision Making as a Property of Complex Adaptive Systems: Developing and Testing a Measure

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth A. Anderson ◽  
Donde Plowman ◽  
Kirsten Corazzini ◽  
Pi-Ching Hsieh ◽  
Hui Fang Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Level Property

Objectives.To (1) describe participation in decision-making as a systems-level property of complex adaptive systems and (2) present empirical evidence of reliability and validity of a corresponding measure.Method.Study 1 was a mail survey of a single respondent (administrators or directors of nursing) in each of 197 nursing homes. Study 2 was a field study using random, proportionally stratified sampling procedure that included 195 organizations with 3,968 respondents.Analysis.In Study 1, we analyzed the data to reduce the number of scale items and establish initial reliability and validity. In Study 2, we strengthened the psychometric test using a large sample.Results.Results demonstrated validity and reliability of the participation in decision-making instrument (PDMI) while measuring participation of workers in two distinct job categories (RNs and CNAs). We established reliability at the organizational level aggregated items scores. We established validity of the multidimensional properties using convergent and discriminant validity and confirmatory factor analysis.Conclusions.Participation in decision making, when modeled as a systems-level property of organization, has multiple dimensions and is more complex than is being traditionally measured. Managers can use this model to form decision teams that maximize the depth and breadth of expertise needed and to foster connection among them.

Ervaren Uitdaging op het Werk

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. Y. Preenen ◽  
Annelies E. M. van Vianen ◽  
Irene E. de Pater ◽  
René Geerling
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Work Attitudes ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Perceived Challenge

Perceived Job Challenge: Development of a measure Perceived Job Challenge: Development of a measure A measure of perceived challenge was developed, and its psychometric qualities were investigated in two studies. Perceived challenge consisted of three factors: positive stimulation, competence testing, and uncertainty. These factors were found to be reliable and showed good convergent validity. The non-significant correlations between perceived challenge and the Big Five personality traits agreeableness and neuroticism indicated good discriminant validity. The criterium validity of this measure was good as well. The positive stimulation dimension in particular showed to correlate high with employees’ work attitudes. This measure of perceived challenge seems useful for research and practice.

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