scholarly journals A Less Evaluative Measure of Big Five Personality: Comparison of Structure and Criterion Validity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua K Wood ◽  
Jeromy Anglim ◽  
Sharon Horwood
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Large Sample Size ◽  
Academic Grades

Researchers and practitioners have long been concerned about detrimental effects of socially desirable responding on the structure and criterion validity of personality assessments. The current research examined the effect of reducing evaluative item content of a Big Five personality assessment on test structure and criterion validity. We developed a new public domain measure of the Big Five called the Less Evaluative Five Factor Inventory (LEFFI), adapted from the standard 50-item IPIP NEO, and intended to be less evaluative. Participants (n = 3164) then completed standard (IPIP) and neutralized (LEFFI) measures of personality. Criteria were also collected, including academic grades, age, sex, smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise, protesting, religious worship, music preferences, dental hygiene, blood donation, other-rated communication styles, other-rated HEXACO personality, and cognitive ability (ICAR). Evaluativeness of items was reduced in the neutralized measure. Cronbach's alpha and test-retest reliability were maintained. Correlations between the Big Five were reduced in the neutralized measure and criterion validity was similar or slightly reduced in the neutralized measure. The large sample size and use of objective criteria extend past research. The study also contributes to debates about whether the general factor of personality and agreement with socially desirable content reflect substance or bias.

scholarly journals A less evaluative measure of Big Five personality: Comparison of structure and criterion validity

2021 ◽  
pp. 089020702110129
Author(s):  
Joshua K Wood ◽  
Jeromy Anglim ◽  
Sharon Horwood
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Large Sample Size ◽  
Academic Grades

Researchers and practitioners have long been concerned about detrimental effects of socially desirable responding on the structure and criterion validity of personality assessments. The current research examined the effect of reducing evaluative item content of a Big Five personality assessment on test structure and criterion validity. We developed a new public domain measure of the Big Five called the Less Evaluative Five Factor Inventory (LEFFI), adapted from the standard 50-item IPIP NEO, and intended to be less evaluative. Participants ( n = 3164) then completed standard (IPIP) and neutralized (LEFFI) measures of personality. Criteria were also collected, including academic grades, age, sex, smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise, protesting, religious worship, music preferences, dental hygiene, blood donation, other-rated communication styles, other-rated HEXACO personality, and cognitive ability (ICAR). Evaluativeness of items was reduced in the neutralized measure. Cronbach's alpha and test-retest reliability were maintained. Correlations between the Big Five were reduced in the neutralized measure and criterion validity was similar or slightly reduced in the neutralized measure. The large sample size and use of objective criteria extend past research. The study also contributes to debates about whether the general factor of personality and agreement with socially desirable content reflect substance or bias.

‘Personality in its Natural Habitat’ Revisited: A Pooled, Multi–sample Examination of the Relationships between the Big Five Personality Traits and Daily Behaviour and Language Use

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 753-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison M. Tackman ◽  
Erica N. Baranski ◽  
Alexander F. Danvers ◽  
David A. Sbarra ◽  
Charles L. Raison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Pooled Data ◽  
Small College ◽  
Gender Specific

Past research using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), an observational ambulatory assessment method for the real–world measurement of daily behaviour, has identified several behavioural manifestations of the Big Five domains in a small college sample ( N = 96). With the use of a larger and more diverse sample of pooled data from N = 462 participants from a total of four community samples who wore the EAR from 2 to 6 days, the primary purpose of the present study was to obtain more precise and generalizable effect estimates of the Big Five–behaviour relationships and to re–examine the degree to which these relationships are gender specific. In an extension of the original article, the secondary purpose of the present study was to examine if the Big Five–behaviour relationships differed across two facets of each Big Five domain. Overall, while several of the behavioural manifestations of the Big Five were generally consistent with the trait definitions (replicating some findings from the original article), we found little evidence of gender differences (not replicating a basic finding from the original article). Unique to the present study, the Big Five–behaviour relationships were not always comparable across the two facets of each Big Five domain. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology

Personality Across the Lifespan

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naemi D. Brandt ◽  
Michael Becker ◽  
Julia Tetzner ◽  
Martin Brunner ◽  
Poldi Kuhl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Late Childhood ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Reliable Assessment ◽  
Two Samples

Abstract. Personality is a relevant predictor for important life outcomes across the entire lifespan. Although previous studies have suggested the comparability of the measurement of the Big Five personality traits across adulthood, the generalizability to childhood is largely unknown. The present study investigated the structure of the Big Five personality traits assessed with the Big Five Inventory-SOEP Version (BFI-S; SOEP = Socio-Economic Panel) across a broad age range spanning 11–84 years. We used two samples of N = 1,090 children (52% female, Mage = 11.87) and N = 18,789 adults (53% female, Mage = 51.09), estimating a multigroup CFA analysis across four age groups (late childhood: 11–14 years; early adulthood: 17–30 years; middle adulthood: 31–60 years; late adulthood: 61–84 years). Our results indicated the comparability of the personality trait metric in terms of general factor structure, loading patterns, and the majority of intercepts across all age groups. Therefore, the findings suggest both a reliable assessment of the Big Five personality traits with the BFI-S even in late childhood and a vastly comparable metric across age groups.

Criterion Validity of Eight Short Measures of Big Five Personality

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Crede ◽  
Peter D. Harms ◽  
Sarah Niehorster ◽  
Andrea Gaye
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Big Five Personality

Perceived Investment Performance of Individual Investors is Related to the Big-Five and the General Factor of Personality (GPF)

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima Akhtar ◽  
K. S. Thyagaraj ◽  
Niladri Das
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Investment Performance ◽  
Five Dimensions

The present study tries to examine whether (i) Big-Five personality traits and (ii) general personality factor (Big-One), that is, the higher order factor for Big-Five are related to the factors measuring perceived investment performance. Cross-sectional data were collected from individual investors ( N = 396), through stratified and quota sampling approach. Data were analysed using correlation, regression, hierarchical regression and structural equation modelling (SEM) to evaluate the strength of relationship between the constructs. The results of the study indicated that Big-Five dimensions of personality, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, are associated with perceived investment performance. Moreover, the correlation and regression analysis depicted that Big-One is also a major antecedent for perceived satisfaction and tends to contribute largely (3.8 per cent) to the variance in perceived investment performance.

Evidence for a Heritable General Factor of Personality in Two Studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Livia Veselka ◽  
Julie Aitken Schermer ◽  
K. V. Petrides ◽  
Philip Anthony Vernon
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Genetic Model ◽  
Model Fitting ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
General Factor Of Personality ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractTwo studies were conducted to see whether a general factor of personality (GFP) could be extracted from different measures of personality. Using samples of twins in both studies also allowed an assessment of the extent to which genetic and/ or environmental factors contributed to individual differences in the GFPs that were found. In Study 1, principal components analysis of the Big Five personality traits in combination with four scales of mental toughness yielded a strong GFP and behavior genetic model-fitting showed that individual differences in this GFP were fully accounted for by genetic and nonshared environmental factors. In Study 2, a GFP was extracted from the Big Five traits in combination with 15 facets of emotional intelligence. Individual differences in this GFP were also fully accounted for by genetic and nonshared environmental factors. These studies add to the growing body of research demonstrating the existence of a GFP and replicate one previous report of its heritability.

scholarly journals Selling ourselves short? How abbreviated measures of personality change the way we think about personality and politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Bakker ◽  
Yphtach Lelkes
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
Personality And Politics

Political scientists who study the interplay between personality and politics overwhelmingly rely on short personality scales. We explore whether the length of theemployed personality scales affects the criterion validity of the scales. We show that Need for Cognition (NfC) increases reliance on party cues, but only when a longermeasure is employed. Additionally, while NfC increases reliance on policy information, the effect is more than twice as large when a longer measure is used. Finally, Big Five personality traits that have been dismissed as irrelevant to political ideology yield stronger and more consistent associations when larger batteries are employed. We also show that using high Cronbach’s alpha and factor loadings as indicators of scale qualitydoes not improve the criterion validity of brief measures. Hence, the measurement of personality conditions the conclusions we draw about the role of personality in politics

Teen Texting While Driving

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1647-1651
Author(s):  
Maranda McBride ◽  
Lemuria Carter
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Compliance Training ◽  
Young Drivers ◽  
Texting While Driving

This study was designed to identify key components that affect teenagers’ intent to text while driving by developing and administering a survey to identify psychological profiles of teenagers who are more or less likely to comply with TWD laws. Such profiles may be used to create unique TWD law compliance training protocols designed to address specific teenager characteristics. The method included the administration of a 108-item Likert-scale survey to young drivers age 15 through 21. The survey consisted of a set of demographic questions; a Big Five personality assessment; and items to assess attitudes, norms, and perceptions associated with TWD. The results of the regression analysis performed on the data indicate the following factors potentially impact teenager TWD behavior: perceived behavioral control, subjective norm, and TWD concealment attitude.

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