The Criterion Validity of Broad Factor Scales versus Specific Facet Scales

Ashton, Michael C.; Jackson, Douglas N.; Paunonen, Sampo V.; Helmes, Edward; Rothstein, Mitchell G.

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“…In other words, items or factors in the broadband composite that are unrelated to the outcome of interest (i.e., irrelevant information) will attenuate the correlation. Empirical results support this (Ashton, 1998;Ashton et al, 1995;Paunonen, 1998Paunonen, , 2003Paunonen & Ashton, 2001;cf. also Carver, 1989).…”

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“…Another may be that in the absence of further development and cross-validation work, researchers are hesitant to utilize them. The goal of this study is therefore to provide a detailed investigation of the subcomponents' replicability and psychometric characteristics in two independent samples.An appreciation of the subcomponent's importance may be gleaned from a brief review of the debate over the relative merits of scales capturing broad traits versus those capturing narrow traits (Ashton, 1998;Ashton, Jackson, Paunonen, Helmes, & Rothstein, 1995;Ones & Viswesvaran, 1996;Ones, Viswesvaran, & Schmidt, 1993;Paunonen, 1998Paunonen, , 2003Paunonen & Ashton, 2001;Saucier & Ostendorf, 1999). In hierarchical personality inventories, the former correspond to higher order, general factors, whereas the latter correspond to lower order, specific factors.…”

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Bandwidth and Fidelity on the NEO-Five Factor Inventory: Replicability and Reliability of Item Cluster Subcomponents

Chapman

2007

Journal of Personality Assessment

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Many users of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992) are unaware that Saucier (1998) developed item cluster subcomponents for each broad domain of the instrument similar to the facets of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992). In this study, I examined the following: the replicability of the subcomponents in young adult university and middle-aged community samples; whether item keying accounted for additional covariance among items; subcomponent correlations with a measure of socially desirable responding; subcomponent reliabilities; and subcomponent discriminant validity with respect to age-relevant criterion items expected to reflect varying associations with broad and narrow traits. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that all subcomponents were recoverable across samples and that the addition of method factors representing positive and negative item keying improved model fit. The subcomponents correlated no more with a measure of socially desirable responding than their parent domains and showed good average reliability. Correlations with criterion items suggested that subcomponents may prove useful in specifying which elements of NEO-FFI domains are more or less related to variables of interest. I discuss their use for enhancing the precision of findings obtained with NEO-FFI domain scores.Most researchers have agreed that personality traits can be measured in hierarchical tiers that vary in generality (Cattell & Krug, 1986;Costa & McCrae, 1997;Eysenck, 1998;Goldberg, 1990). Traits at higher levels of multistratum taxonomies are merely composites of more fine-grained specific traits. For example, within the Five Factor Model of personality (Costa & McCrae, 1997;Digman, 1990;Goldberg, 1990;John & Srivastava, 1999), the broad trait of Conscientiousness is composed of narrow attributes such as self-discipline, achievement orientation, and orderliness. The commonly used Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992) permits users to capture information about such higher order broad traits as well as the lower order, narrow traits that compose them (cf. Costa & McCrae, 1995).The 60-item NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992) is a brief version of the NEO-PI-R designed to provide speedy and convenient measurement of the Five Factor Model domains; however, it does so by relinquishing information about the narrow traits that comprise each broad factor. To remedy this, Saucier (1998) derived item cluster subcomponents for the NEO-FFI that provided a more specific level of trait measurement. These subcomponents are somewhat similar, although not as specific, as the Copyright © 2007 facets of the full length NEO-PI-R and are listed in Table 1. In their development, these subcomponents evidenced strong average internal consistency comparable to NEO-PI-R facets (e.g., an average Cronbach's of .70 in a development sample and .66 in a crossvalidation sample compared to average NEO-PI-R facet of .70) and captured the majority (a...

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Bandwidth and Fidelity on the NEO-Five Factor Inventory: Replicability and Reliability of Item Cluster Subcomponents

Chapman

2007

Journal of Personality Assessment

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“…Ashton, et al, 1995; have argued that the specific variance of trait-level measures could be more predictive than the shared Individual Differences and Safety 59 or common trait-level variance which make up factors. Demonstrations of the incremental validity of traits over factors, and the ability of trait-level measures to maintain significant correlations with criteria even after the factor-level shared variance is partialled out, support this argument.…”

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“…Three studies (Ashton, Jackson, Paunonen, Helmes, & Rothstein, 1995;Paunonen, 1998;Paunonen & Ashton, 2001a) examined the concurrent validity of factor-and trait-level personality measures on a wide variety of personal behaviors; all three concluded that trait-level measures can, at times, show higher validity than factor-level measures. Ashton et al (1995) examined correlations between factor-level measures, trait-level measures, and a variety of personal behaviors (e.g. dating, fraternity interest, smoking, drinking alcohol, bed-making, speaking in class) in a cross-sectional study.…”

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Proactive Personality and Big Five Traits in Supervisors and Workgroup Members: Effects on Safety Climate and Safety Motivation

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2000

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In 2009 there were 3.28 million non-fatal occupational injuries and illnesses (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010). Of these injuries and illnesses, 965,000 resulted in lost days from work. In addition there were 4,340 workplace fatalities. Given the number of occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, and the associated direct and indirect costs, organizations have sought to improve safety at work. Safety climate and safety motivation are two variables hypothesized to affect safety behaviors and safety outcomes. Safety climate refers to the shared perceptions of workgroup members, of the organizations' commitment to safety as evidenced by heir immediate supervisors' pattern of implementing safety policies and procedures (Zohar, 2003). Therefore, the workgroup supervisor plays an major role in the development of safety climate. Social exchange theory and previous studies of leadership styles and safety suggest that supervisors who convey concern for subordinates' well-being increase workers' motivation to reciprocate by increasing their safe behaviors at work. However, no

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“…From a scienti¢c perspective, the overlap between the two models provides a parsimonious view of how interests and personality traits are related. However, from a practical perspective, predictive and explanatory power is lost with broad constructs such as Holland's interest types and the broad traits of the ¢ve-factor model (Mershon & Gorsuch, 1989;Ashton, Jackson, Paunonen, Helmes & Rothstein, 1995). In the career counselling context it often is desirable to have knowledge about an individual's speci¢c interests.…”

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The relationship between personality traits and vocational interests

Bruin

2002

SA j ind psychol

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This study examined the relationship between vocational interests and basic personality traits. The interest ¢elds of the 19-Field-Interest Inventory were related to the second order factors of the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire by means of a factor extension analysis. The results showed that extroverts tend to be interested in ¢elds related to social contact and the in£uencing of other people. Emotionally sensitive individuals tend to be interested in the arts and languages. Independent individuals tend to be interested in creative thinking. The implications of the ¢ndings for career counselling are discussed. OPSOMMINGHierdie studie het ondersoek ingestel na die verband tussen beroepsbelangstellings en basiese persoonlikheidstrekke. Die 19 belangstellingsvelde van die 19-Veld-belangstellingsvraelys is aan die hand van 'n faktorverlengingsontleding met die tweede orde faktore van die 16 -Persoonlikheidsfaktorvraelys in verband gebring. Die resultate dui daarop dat ekstroverte geneig is om in velde wat sosiale kontak en die be|« nvloeding van mense behels, belang te stel. Emosioneel sensitiewe individue is geneig om in kunssinnge en taal verwante velde belang te stel. Onafhanklike individue is geneig om in kreatiewe denke belang te stel. Die implikasies van die resultate vir loopbaanvoorligting word bespreek.

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The Criterion Validity of Broad Factor Scales versus Specific Facet Scales

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Bandwidth and Fidelity on the NEO-Five Factor Inventory: Replicability and Reliability of Item Cluster Subcomponents

Bandwidth and Fidelity on the NEO-Five Factor Inventory: Replicability and Reliability of Item Cluster Subcomponents

Proactive Personality and Big Five Traits in Supervisors and Workgroup Members: Effects on Safety Climate and Safety Motivation

The relationship between personality traits and vocational interests

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