No Evidence that Social Desirability Response Set Explains the General Factor of Personality and Its Affective Correlates

Rushton, J. Philippe; Erdle, Stephen

doi:10.1375/twin.13.2.131

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“…The results of the present study are inconsistent with this theory as the bivariate partial correlations between the GFP and the Dark Triad, although somewhat attenuated, persisted when social desirability was controlled for. This is consistent with previous research that has suggested that although the GFP is related to the social desirable responding, it is not solely a product of this bias (Rushton & Erdle, 2009;Rushton & Erdle, 2009;Schermer & Vernon, 2010).…”

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“…This indicates that although the GFP is related to social desirability, the GFP cannot be explained by social desirability alone. Further evidence in support of the GFP was found by Rushton and Erdle (2009) who examined multiple informants (self-, teacher-, and parent-ratings) and found that a GFP accounted for 54% of the reliable variance and was found regardless of the source of data.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Rushton and Erdle (2009) found that the GFP still appeared after statistically controlling for social desirability. More specifically, they found that before controlling for social desirability, the mean Big Five loading on the GFP was .45; this was reduced to .44 after controlling for social desirability.…”

Section: Criticisms Of the Gfpmentioning

confidence: 94%

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The General Factor of Personality: The relationship between the Big One and the Dark Triad

Kowalski

Vernon

Schermer

2016

Personality and Individual Differences

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The General Factor of Personality: The relationship between the Big One and the Dark Triad

Kowalski

Vernon

Schermer

2016

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…Thus, we were able to extract a heritable GFP from the data, which mirrors the results of previous behavioral genetic studies on this general factor (e.g., Veselka et al, 2009a;2009b). This finding lends support to the notion of an overarching general factor of personality, Dark Triad Versus the Supernumerary Personality Inventory which may have important evolutionary implications (Rushton & Erdle, 2010).…”

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Beyond the Big Five: The Dark Triad and the Supernumerary Personality Inventory

Veselka

Schermer

Vernon³

2011

Twin Res Hum Genet

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The Dark Triad of personality, comprising Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, was investigated in relation to the Supernumerary Personality Inventory (SPI) traits, because both sets of variables are predominantly distinct from the Big Five model of personality. Correlational and principal factor analyses were conducted to assess the relations between the Dark Triad and SPI traits. Multivariate behavioral genetic model-fitting analyses were also conducted to determine the correlated genetic and/or environmental underpinnings of the observed phenotypic correlations. Participants were 358 monozygotic and 98 same-sex dizygotic adult twin pairs from North America. As predicted, results revealed significant correlations between the Dark Triad and most SPI traits, and these correlations were primarily attributable to common genetic and non-shared environmental factors, except in the case of Machiavellianism, where shared environmental effects emerged. Three correlated factors were extracted during joint factor analysis of the Dark Triad and SPI traits, as well as a heritable general factor of personality — results that clarified the structure of the Dark Triad construct. It is concluded that the Dark Triad represents an exploitative and antisocial construct that extends beyond the Big Five model and shares a theoretical space with the SPI traits.

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“…Those high on the GFP experience positive affect and have expectations of future reward, while those low on the GFP experience negative affect and have expectations of future punishment. Subsequently, Rushton and Erdle (2010) found that those who score high on the GFP were not only high in self -esteem and positive affect, but low in depression as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory. Several cross -national twin studies have found that 50 percent of the GFP variance is due to genetic infl uence and 50 percent to non -shared environmental infl uence.…”

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The General Factor of Personality

Rushton

Irwing

2011

The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

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A recent hypothesis is that a general factor of personality (GFP) occupies the apex of the hierarchy of personality as well as the apex of the personality disorders in the same way in which g , the general factor of mental ability, occupies the apex in the organization of cognitive abilities (Rushton, Bons, & Hur, 2008 ). High scores on the GFP indicate what is meant by someone having a " good " personality; low scores indicate what is meant by a " diffi cult " personality, in other words someone who is hard to get along with. Individuals high on the GFP are altruistic, agreeable, relaxed, conscientious, sociable, and open, with high levels of well -being and self -esteem. Because the GFP defi nes clear positive and negative poles, it provides potential for understanding the socially " advantaged " (those with high levels of emotional intelligence) as well as the socially " challenged " (those more likely to suffer a personality disorder). The GFP can be viewed as a dimension of social effectiveness.The explanation we favor for the GFP is that it arose through evolutionary selection for socially desirable traits that facilitate performance across a wide range of contexts . This follows a proposal by Darwin (1871) that natural selection acted directionally, to endow people with more cooperative and less contentious personalities than their archaic ancestors or nearest living relatives, the chimpanzees. conjectured that individuals high on the GFP left more progeny, since people prefer as mates, fellow workers, and leaders those who are altruistic, conscientious, and emotionally stable. People able to cooperate in groups were also more likely to win competitions and wars. The alternative to the GFP being substantive is that it results from artifacts of scale construction and from evaluative bias such as responding in a socially desirable manner.The main empirical impetus for identifying a GFP comes from the observation that the Big -Five factors typically intercorrelate, despite claims that they areThe Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences, First Edition. Edited by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Sophie von Stumm, and Adrian Furnham.

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No Evidence that Social Desirability Response Set Explains the General Factor of Personality and Its Affective Correlates

Cited by 39 publications

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The General Factor of Personality: The relationship between the Big One and the Dark Triad

The General Factor of Personality: The relationship between the Big One and the Dark Triad

Beyond the Big Five: The Dark Triad and the Supernumerary Personality Inventory

The General Factor of Personality

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