Does self-esteem or social desirability account for a general factor of personality (GFP) in the Big Five?

Erdle, Stephen; Rushton, J. Philippe

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.038

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“…First, we fit a model with five latent factors corresponding to OCEAN, estimating all covariances between latent factors (χ 2 = 4,919.67, CFI = .85, RMSEA = .10). Second, we fit a model using the General Factor of Personality (Erdle & Rushton, ; Van der Linden, Scholte, Cillessen, te Neijenhuis, & Segers, ), which is a common second‐order trait in the personality literature (χ 2 = 5,083.59, CFI = .84, RMSEA = .10). Finally, we fit the model as shown in Figure , which added a sixth factor and left all factors constrained to have covariances of zero (χ 2 = 2,078.66, CFI = .94, RMSEA = .07); allowing additional paths meant the model was no longer identified.…”

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Marital Conflict in Older Couples: Positivity, Personality, and Health

Iveniuk

Waite

Laumann

et al. 2014

J of Marriage and Family

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We examine the implications of health and personality characteristics for late-life marital conflict, using data from the 2010–11 wave of the National Social Life Health and Aging Project (NSHAP), a nationally representative study with data on both partners in 955 marital and cohabitational dyads. Using these data, we relate characteristics of husbands to characteristics of their wives, and vice versa. Wives with husbands in fair or poor physical health are more likely to report high levels of marital conflict, but the reverse is not true. Similarly, wives report more conflict when their husbands are high on Neuroticism, high on Extraversion, and low on a new measure we call Positivity. Our findings point to noteworthy gender differences between men and women in the associations between individual characteristics and levels of marital conflict. We point to differences between husbands’ and wives’ marital roles as a contributor to these differences.

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Marital Conflict in Older Couples: Positivity, Personality, and Health

Iveniuk

Waite

Laumann

et al. 2014

J of Marriage and Family

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“…Erdle et al (2010) found that the GFP was highly related to self-esteem in an internet sample of over 600,000 people, and then published a follow-up study (Erdle and Rushton, 2011a) showing that this association could not be explained by social desirability. Using undergraduate samples, Erdle and Rushton (2011b) also found an association between the GFP and self-esteem that was not accounted for by social desirability. This paper also reported positive associations between the GFP and positive affect and expectations of reward, along with negative associations between the GFP and negative affect and expectations for punishment.…”

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The general factor of personality: A general critique

Revelle¹,

Wilt²

2013

Journal of Research in Personality

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Recently, it has been proposed that all non-cognitive measures of personality share a general factor of personality. A problem with many of these studies is a lack of clarity in defining a general factor. In this paper we address the multiple ways in which a general factor has been identified and argue that many of these approaches find factors that are not in fact general. Through the use of artificial examples, we show that a general factor is not: The first factor or component of a correlation or covariance matrix.The first factor resulting from a bifactor rotation or biquartimin transformationNecessarily the result of a confirmatory factor analysis forcing a bifactor solution We consider how the definition of what constitutes a general factor can lead to confusion, and we will demonstrate alternative ways of estimating the general factor saturation that are more appropriate.

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“…Because there is an extensive literature that addresses those concerns (e.g. Dunkel & Van der Linden, 2014;Erdle & Rushton, 2011;Irwing, 2013;Rushton & Erdle, 2010), we do not want to enter into that discussion here. Instead, we briefly want to touch on a study by Hopwood, Wright, and Donnellan (2011), who challenged the existence of the GFP per se as being a product of methodological bias and statistical Personality Moderates Stress and Coping Reactions misconduct.…”

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Big Five Personality Traits and the General Factor of Personality as Moderators of Stress and Coping Reactions Following an Emergency Alarm on a Swiss University Campus

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We conducted an online survey including 306 participants aged 18-64 years to assess the general factor of personality (GFP) and Big Five personality traits in relation to individual stress and coping reactions following a shooting emergency alarm at a Swiss university campus. Although the emergency eventually turned out to be a false alarm, various witnesses showed pronounced distress owing to a vast police operation. The GFP structure was replicated using two alternative modelling approaches. Neuroticism related substantially to acute fear and traumatic distress as well as to more enduring maladaptive coping. Agreeableness was negatively associated with the coping strategy of medication use, whereas both agreeableness and conscientiousness related positively to social activity following the emergency. The GFP related moderately to peri-traumatic distress and showed a substantial negative association with medication use and a strong positive association with social activity. In conclusion, both the GFP and Big Five traits significantly moderate stress responses following a stressful life event. The GFP predominantly relates to socially adaptive coping, whereas in particular neuroticism accounts for acute stress reactions such as fear and traumatic distress. These findings support the notion that personality influences how persons react in the face of adversity. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Does self-esteem or social desirability account for a general factor of personality (GFP) in the Big Five?

Cited by 42 publications

References 22 publications

Marital Conflict in Older Couples: Positivity, Personality, and Health

Marital Conflict in Older Couples: Positivity, Personality, and Health

The general factor of personality: A general critique

Big Five Personality Traits and the General Factor of Personality as Moderators of Stress and Coping Reactions Following an Emergency Alarm on a Swiss University Campus

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