scholarly journals The Big Five Personality as A Predictor of Involvement in Violence among Students in Secondary Schools in Nyando Sub-County, Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Abraham Omanyo ◽  
Peter Omae ◽  
Margaret Disiye
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Psychosocial Stages ◽  
Exposure Levels ◽  
Psychosocial Stages Of Development

Involvement in violence among students is a common menace not only in Nyando Sub-county, Kenya but also in the whole world. Predicting involvement in violence based on the big five personalities could be useful in developing various personality-based interventions to involvement in violence. This prompted the present study to investigate both qualitative and quantitative Predictiveness of the big five personalities to involvement in violence. The convergent parallel mixed-method research design was used. Multistage random sampling was used to generate a sampling size of 418 students. Apart from the students, 26 teacher counselors and 26 deputy headteachers were also interviewed in order to triangulate the sources of information. Both self-report questionnaires and interview schedules were used to collect data. The results indicated that the big five personalities were significantly predictive of involvement in violence at 23.4% (F (5, 391) = 26.886 p < 0.05 and R2 = 0.23). Hence other factors (apart from the big five personalities) predictive of involvement in violence which was qualitatively explored included: environmental factors, social factors, economic factors, familial factors, political factors, cultural factors, the psychosocial stages of development, exposure levels of a person, temperamental issues, modernism, and post-modernism. These other factors were assumed to predict involvement in violence at 76.6%. Therefore to minimize involvement in violence, more personality-based interventional measures should be applied.

Measuring the Big Five in Self-Report and Other Ratings

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Barbaranelli ◽  
Gian Vittorio Caprara
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Error Variance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Fit Indexes ◽  
Response Modes

Summary: The aim of the study is to assess the construct validity of two different measures of the Big Five, matching two “response modes” (phrase-questionnaire and list of adjectives) and two sources of information or raters (self-report and other ratings). Two-hundred subjects, equally divided in males and females, were administered the self-report versions of the Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ) and the Big Five Observer (BFO), a list of bipolar pairs of adjectives ( Caprara, Barbaranelli, & Borgogni, 1993 , 1994 ). Every subject was rated by six acquaintances, then aggregated by means of the same instruments used for the self-report, but worded in a third-person format. The multitrait-multimethod matrix derived from these measures was then analyzed via Structural Equation Models according to the criteria proposed by Widaman (1985) , Marsh (1989) , and Bagozzi (1994) . In particular, four different models were compared. While the global fit indexes of the models were only moderate, convergent and discriminant validities were clearly supported, and method and error variance were moderate or low.

scholarly journals A meta-analysis on individual differences in primary emotional systems and Big Five personality traits

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Marengo ◽  
Kenneth L. Davis ◽  
Gökçe Özkarar Gradwohl ◽  
Christian Montag
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Affective Neuroscience ◽  
Emotional Systems

AbstractThe Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) were constructed as a self-report assessment to measure individual differences in Jaak Panksepp’s cross-species primary emotional systems: SEEKING, PLAY, CARE (positive emotions) and FEAR, SADNESS, ANGER (negative emotions). Beginning with the first published work on the ANPS in 2003, individual differences on the ANPS measures of these six primary emotional systems have been consistently linked to Big Five personality traits. From a theoretical perspective, these primary emotional systems arising from subcortical regions, shed light on the nature of the Big Five personality traits from an evolutionary perspective, because each of these primary emotional systems represent a tool for survival endowing mammalian species with inherited behavioral programs to react appropriately to complex environments. The present work revisited 21 available samples where both ANPS and Big Five measures have been administered. Our meta-analytical analysis provides solid evidence that high SEEKING relates to high Openness to Experience, high PLAY to high Extraversion, high CARE/low ANGER to high Agreeableness and high FEAR/SADNESS/ANGER to high Neuroticism. This seems to be true regardless of the ANPS inventory chosen, although much more work is needed in this area. Associations between primary emotional systems and Conscientiousness were in the lower effect size area across all six primary emotions, thereby supporting the idea that Conscientiousness rather seems to be less directly related with the subcortical primary emotions and likely is the most cognitive/cortical personality construct out of the Big Five. In sum, the present work underlines the idea that individual differences in primary emotional systems represent evolutionarily ancient foundations of human personality, given their a) meaningful links to the prominent Big Five model and b) their origins lying in subcortical areas of the human brain.

scholarly journals To Fear or Fly to the Unknown: Tolerance for Ambiguity and Big Five Personality Traits

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley Jach ◽  
Luke Smillie
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Ambiguity Tolerance ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
Behavioral Choice ◽  
Tolerance For Ambiguity

The present study investigated whether ambiguity tolerance relates to personality traits that are theoretically grounded in fear (neuroticism) or attraction (openness to experience; extraversion) for the unknown. Our hypotheses were supported for self-report measures (and openness to experience predicted ambiguity tolerance controlling for intelligence), but behavioral choice measures of ambiguity tolerance demonstrated poor reliability and were unrelated to self-reported ambiguity tolerance and basic personality traits. An exploratory network analysis revealed that ambiguity tolerance was more strongly related to the intellectual curiosity (vs. aesthetic appreciation) facet of openness to experience, and the assertiveness (vs. energy or sociability) facet of extraversion. Our findings reinforce the fragmented literature in this area, and support predictions derived from psychological entropy theories of personality.

scholarly journals The Motivation to Empathize Scale - Indexing Virtuous and Nonvirtuous Motives to Empathize

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S Shane
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Reactivity Index ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Latent Factor ◽  
Scale Reliability ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Future Work

While recent conceptualizations of empathy have highlighted its motivated nature (eg. (Keysers &amp; Gazzola, 2014; Zaki, 2014) little work has yet explored the specific motivations that influence one’s propensity to empathize. Commonly-used self-report metrics of empathy include items that lean heavily, if not entirely, towards ‘virtuous’ motives (e.g. concern, sympathy, caring, helping), and empathy has been explicitly linked to these motivations in many writings. However, the definition of empathy is silent to its virtuosity; and while rarely indexed, several less virtuous motivations for empathy can be readily identified: to influence, to manage, to mediate, to manipulate. Towards a more thorough investigation of the various motives underlying empathy, the present paper introduces the Motivation to Empathize scale, which was specifically designed to parse one’s propensity to consider the feelings of another into both virtuous (e.g. caring/compassionate/loving) and nonvirtuous (e.g. selfish, manipulative, sinister) motives. The paper outlines initial steps taken towards scale development and item reduction, and provides preliminary evidence of scale reliability and construct validity. Specifically, factor analytic techniques separated empathic motivations into two (high-alpha) factors, with all virtuous motives loading on latent factor one, and all nonvirtuous motives loading on latent factor two. Thus, virtuous and nonvirtuous motives to empathize appear to constitute distinct, and statistically separable, measures of the propensity to empathize. Virtuous, but not non-virtuous motives, correlated with the empathic concern subscale of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; Davis, 1980), and each motivation type showed distinct relationships with the Compassion and Politeness aspects of Agreeableness (ie. big-five personality traits). In total, these results suggest that both virtuous and nonvirtuous motives may predict the manifestation of empathy, and that future work would do well to consider these varied motivations when considering the nature of the empathic construct.

Individuals Who Report Being Abducted by Aliens: Investigating the Differences in Fantasy Proneness, Emotional Intelligence and the Big Five Personality Factors

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hough ◽  
Paul Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Fantasy Proneness ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Alien Abduction ◽  
Big Five Personality Factors

This study explores individual differences in people claiming to have been abducted by aliens. A sample of 26 alien abductee experiencers (AAErs) plus 26 non-AAEr controls completed self-report measures of fantasy proneness, emotional intelligence, and the big five personality factors. Analysis of Covariance controlling of participants' level of educational attainment revealed no group differences in any of the three fantasy sub-scales (the vividness/realism of fantasies, escapist fantasies, and make-believe fantasies), any of the four EI sub-scales (optimism/mood regulation, the appraisal of emotions, social skills, and the utilization of emotions) or in four of the big five personality factors examined. However, AAErs did rate themselves to be more conscientious than controls, possibly in an attempt to portray themselves as trustworthy and reliable witnesses. Implications for the psychological study of alien abduction experiences are discussed.

Psychometric Evaluation of a Big Five Personality State Scale for Intensive Longitudinal Studies

Assessment ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107319112110082
Author(s):  
Whitney R. Ringwald ◽  
Stephen B. Manuck ◽  
Anna L. Marsland ◽  
Aidan G. C. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
External Criterion ◽  
Personality Inventories ◽  
External Variables ◽  
Initial Support ◽  
State Scale

Despite enthusiasm for using intensive longitudinal designs to measure day-to-day manifestations of personality underlying differences between people, the validity of personality state scales has yet to be established. In this study, we evaluated the psychometrics of 20-item and 10-item daily, Big Five personality state scales in three independent samples ( N = 1,041). We used multilevel models to separately examine the validity of the scales for assessing personality variation at the between- and within-person levels. Results showed that a five-factor structure at both levels fits the data well, the scales had good convergent and discriminative associations with external variables, and personality states captured similar nomological nets as established global, self-report personality inventories. Limitations of the scales were identified (e.g., low reliability, low correlations with external criterion) that point to a need for more, systematic psychometric work. Our findings provide initial support for the use of personality state scales in intensive longitudinal designs to study between-person traits, within-person processes, and their interrelationship.

scholarly journals Kontribusi Trait Kepribadian dan Prestasi Belajar pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Psikologi Angkatan 2014 di Universitas ‘X’ Bandung

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Priska Analya ◽  
Meilani Rohinsa
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Psychology Faculty ◽  
Reliability Score ◽  
And Gender

The Aim of this study is with  to acquire the contribution of Personality Trait and academic Achievement on sitxth grade students of psychology faculty in “X” University-Bandung. The variable in this research was measured by using The NEO-Personality-Revised questionnaire that had translated by the researcher, based on Costa and McCrae (1992). The questionnaire consist of  120 items self-report. The result of validity test is in the midst of 0,322 - 0,598, and the reliability score for Neuroticism is 0,65, Aggreableness is 0,78, Extraversion is 0,67, conscientiousness is  0,61, and  Openness is 0,83. Classical Assumption for regression using Multicolinearity diagnostic and Glejser. Using the purposive sampling as the sampling technique, the researcher obtained 170 students as respondents in this research. The results of this study showed that regression model can’t be used to predict Trait Personality and Academic Achievement. Big Five personality trait don’t have significant influence with Academic Achievement. Big Five Personality trait’s contribution score to Academic Achievement are 2,7%. Suggestion for the next study, should consider the variation of Academic Achievement, and the proporsion of age and gender. The other Suggestion is to assess contribution of another factors such as time management, anxiety, and self efficacy with Academic Achievement

Cognitive Correlates of Personality

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle W. Murdock ◽  
Kate B. Oddi ◽  
David J. Bridgett
Keyword(s):  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Neuropsychological Measures ◽  
Cognitive Correlates ◽  
Report Measure

Research examining associations between executive functioning (EF) and personality traits has demonstrated promising results; however, examination of associations between Big Five personality traits and EF using an established EF framework has yet to be demonstrated. The present study examines associations between three aspects of EF (i.e., Cognitive Flexibility, Inhibition, and Updating/Monitoring), based upon a well-established EF framework, and Big Five personality traits. Participants (N = 182) completed neuropsychological measures of Cognitive Flexibility, Inhibition, and Updating/Monitoring as well as a self-report measure of personality. Better Updating/Monitoring was associated with lower Neuroticism and higher Openness. Openness was also positively associated with Cognitive Flexibility. These findings suggest that there may be a common underlying cognitive characteristic (i.e., Updating/Monitoring) linked with Neuroticism and Openness. Additional implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Comparability of Self–Reported Conscientiousness across 21 Countries

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Mõttus ◽  
Jüri Allik ◽  
Anu Realo ◽  
Helle Pullmann ◽  
Jérôme Rossier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Group Effect ◽  
Reference Levels ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Anchoring Vignettes ◽  
Cross National

In cross–national studies, mean levels of self–reported phenomena are often not congruent with more objective criteria. One prominent explanation for such findings is that people make self–report judgements in relation to culture–specific standards (often called the reference group effect), thereby undermining the cross–cultural comparability of the judgements. We employed a simple method called anchoring vignettes in order to test whether people from 21 different countries have varying standards for Conscientiousness, a Big Five personality trait that has repeatedly shown unexpected nation–level relationships with external criteria. Participants rated their own Conscientiousness and that of 30 hypothetical persons portrayed in short vignettes. The latter type of ratings was expected to reveal individual differences in standards of Conscientiousness. The vignettes were rated relatively similarly in all countries, suggesting no substantial culture–related differences in standards for Conscientiousness. Controlling for the small differences in standards did not substantially change the rankings of countries on mean self–ratings or the predictive validities of these rankings for objective criteria. These findings are not consistent with mean self–rated Conscientiousness scores being influenced by culture–specific standards. The technique of anchoring vignettes can be used in various types of studies to assess the potentially confounding effects of reference levels. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Item Response Theory Analysis of the Big Five Questionnaire for Children–Short Form (BFC-SF): A Self-Report Measure of Personality in Children Aged 11–12 Years

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles Bore ◽  
Kristin R. Laurens ◽  
Megan J. Hobbs ◽  
Melissa J. Green ◽  
Stacy Tzoumakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Item Response Theory ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Response Theory ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Report Measure

Prior investigations indicate that the five core personality dimensions (the “Big Five”) are measurable by middle childhood. The aim of this research was to examine the psychometric properties of a short-form self-report measure of the Big Five personality dimensions in children that would be suitable for administration online in large population-based studies. Twenty-five questionnaire items in English, derived from the 65-item Big Five Questionnaire for Children in Italian (Barbaranelli, Caprara, Rabasca, & Pastorelli, 2003), were completed online by 27,415 Australian children in Year 6 (mean age 11.92 years). An item response theory approach evaluated the psychometric properties and resolved a 20-item short-form questionnaire. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported the Big Five structure. Construct validity was demonstrated via correlations between Big Five scores and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire subscales (Goodman, 2001). The 20 items provide a brief, reliable, and valid child self-report measure of the Big Five personality dimensions.

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