How general across inventories is a general factor of personality?

作者：Loehlin John C^*

来源：Journal of Research in Personality, 2012, 46(3): 258-263.

DOI：10.1016/j.jrp.2012.02.003

• General factor of personality (GFP)
• Personality inventories
• Big Five
• Eugene-Springfield Community Sample
• Factor analysis
• Human evolution

Two recent analyses addressing the generality of a general factor of personality (GFP) across different personality inventories came to markedly different conclusions. By applying the methods used by the one that found a GFP to the data used by the one that did not, it was shown that a substantial GFP could be obtained in the latter case. It was also shown that similar GFPs could be derived from sets of more broadly or more narrowly defined questionnaire scales, or from self- and others' reports on a given inventory. Finally, it was shown that a GFP defined from eight personality inventories showed a modest degree of correlation with criterion variables such as ratings by others and act-frequency clusters.

• 出版日期2012-6