Balanced and positively worded personality short-forms: Mini-IPIP validity and cross-cultural invariance

Abstract

BackgroundThe Mini-IPIP scales (Donellan et al., 2006) are possibly one of the most commonly used short inventories for measuring the Big Five Factors of personality. In this study, we aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of two Mini-IPIP Spanish short forms, one balanced and one positively wording (PW).MethodTwo samples, one from native Spanish speakers and another from native English speakers, made up a total of 940 participants in this study. The short forms were translated and adapted based on international guidelines. Reliability (internal and composite) and validity analyses (construct ESEM, concurrent, predictive and cross-cultural invariance through multi-group factorial models) were performed.ResultsFor both the balanced scale and the PW one, modeling a method factor was not relevant. The reliability and validity indices of both forms were according to theory and prior studies’ findings: (a) personality factors were medium-high related to affective factors; (b) personality factors were less related to life satisfaction than affective factors; (c) life satisfaction was medium-high related to affective factors; (d) neuroticism appeared mainly related to all criteria variables; and (e) an acceptable level of invariance was achieved with regard to the English version.DiscussionThis study contributes to research on personality assessment by providing the first evidence regarding the psychometric properties of a PW short measure. These results suggest that PW short scales of personality used after data screening techniques may be appropriate for future studies (e.g., cross-cultural, content validity).

The study of Positive and Negative Affect in children and adolescents: New advances in a Spanish version of the PANAS

“…The study of the positive and negative affect by means of ESEM models is relatively new [29,30], and there is a lack research analyzing the PANAS structure with this approach, that allow analyzing the structure of positive and negative affect without the restrictions of the CFA models. The results, also revealed a ESEM three factor model as adequate, similar to previous research suggesting the adequacy of a three factor model [15,21,24], although in the present study, the dimensions found for the NA factor were composed of different items.…”

“…This, may better represent the latent construct of affect in terms of a psychological point of view. With this regard, recent studies have analyzed the structure of positive and negative affect by means of the ESEM approach [29,30]. Therefore, and as proposed by Ortuño-Sierra et al [31], studies analyzing the factor structure of the PANAS are still needed.…”

Evidencia de validez e invarianza del Mini - International Personality Item Pool (Mini-IPIP)

“…El modelo principal (MP) establecido por Donnellan et al (2006) no ha presentado adecuados índices de ajuste, lo que coincide con algunos estudios (Leong et al, 2019;Oliveira, 2019;Perry et al, 2020) y difiere de otros (Cooper et al, 2010;Czerwiński & Atroszko, 2020;Li et al, 2012;Simkin et al, 2020). Por otro lado, dentro del estado del arte se hallaron dos modelos (M1 y M2) que correlacionaban errores para obtener un buen ajuste del Mini-IPIP (Martínez-Molina & Arias, 2018;Perry et al, 2020); al calcular estos dos modelos se halló que los errores correlacionados mejoraban la bondad de ajuste, pero afectaban la fiabilidad. En especial el modelo M2, el cual mantenía mayor número de errores correlacionados, mostró disminución en el coeficiente de confiabilidad de apertura.…”

The Spanish Version of the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form (IGDS9-SF): Further Examination Using Item Response Theory

“…The version used in the present study is the positively worded version, which differs from the original Mini-IPIP in that all the items are positively worded. The Spanish Mini-IPIP-PW has shown high levels of reliability and convergent and predictive validity [ 52 ]. The Cronbach’s alpha and the Omega coefficients for the Spanish Mini-IPIP-PW in the present study were all adequate, with the exception of factors E and N (see Table 1 ).…”