The General Factor of Personality (GFP) as social effectiveness: Review of the literature

Linden, Dimitri van der; Dunkel, Curtis S.; Petrides, K. V.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.020

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“…Noteworthy, the GFP has also been confirmed in inventories of personality disorder traits . Against some critics suggesting that the GFP is merely a methodological artefact , many authors consider the GFP a substantial construct with internal and external validity .…”

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Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect: Evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta‐traits

Hengartner

Graf

Schreiber

2017

Personality & Mental Health

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There is increasing interest in the construct validity of higher-order domains of the Big Five personality traits. A total of 831 persons from the Swiss population completed the International Personality Item Pool and an adaptation of the Positive and Negative Affect Scales. Using Goldberg's bass-ackwards method, we found evidence for the general factor of personality (GFP) and the two meta-traits of positive emotionality (blend of low neuroticism and high extraversion) and constraint (blend of high agreeableness and conscientiousness). In association with positive affect, the explanatory power of the GFP (r = 0.43) and positive emotionality (r = 0.37) was largely superior to extraversion (r = 0.24), conscientiousness (r = 0.18), agreeableness (r = 0.09) and openness (r = 0.04), although not neuroticism (r = -0.34). In association with negative affect, neuroticism (r = 0.41), the GFP (r = -0.36) and positive emotionality (r = -0.35) were the most powerful single predictors. We conclude that the higher-order structure of personality is best explained by the meta-traits of positive emotionality and constraint, which correspond closely to the well-established superfactors of internalizing and externalizing. We further demonstrate that these have substantial criterion validity when broad positive and negative affect is the outcome of interest. These findings help to relate Big Five meta-traits to pathological personality. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect: Evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta‐traits

Hengartner

Graf

Schreiber

2017

Personality & Mental Health

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“…Yet little is known about why HEXACO produces results that are distinct from the Big Five at the domain level, and, in particular, what role the HEXACO facets play in these differences. Third, the GFP remains a controversial concept (for a critical review, see Revelle & Wilt, 2013) with some arguing that it reflects a substantive meta-trait (van der Linden, Dunkel, & Petrides, 2016), and others seeing it as largely reflecting social desirability or being synonymous with Extraversion (de Vries, 2011). While the GFP has typically been operationalized as the first factor of domain scores (and sometimes the first factor of items or facets), only a few studies have compared how methods for calculating the GFP influence criterion correlations (e.g., Dunkel & Van der Linden, 2014;Van der Linden et al, 2012), and important alternative approaches have not been explored.…”

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Predicting trait emotional intelligence from HEXACO personality: Domains, facets, and the general factor of personality

Anglim

Morse

Dunlop

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Journal of Personality

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Objective The current study provides a comprehensive analysis of the overlap between trait emotional intelligence (EI) and personality. This overlap was examined using the HEXACO personality framework at both the domain and the facet levels, and through varying methods of deriving a general factor of personality (GFP). Method A sample of 1,370 Australian adults (51% male, age in years M = 45.5, SD = 11.7, range: 21–71) completed the 200‐item HEXACO Personality Inventory‐Revised and the Modified Assessing Emotions Scale measure of self‐reported Trait EI. Results The strongest domain correlations with Total EI emerged for Extraversion (r = .67) followed by Openness (r = .39), Conscientiousness (r = .35), and Agreeableness (r = .26). Large adjusted multiple correlations were obtained when predicting Total EI from HEXACO domains (.74) and facets (.81). The correlations of the GFP and Total EI ranged from .53 to .64 depending on how the GFP was operationalized. Conclusion Trait EI is largely captured by the HEXACO personality framework, whereby Extraversion or the GFP provides a rough initial approximation, but composites of domains and facets provide progressively better representations.

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“…Moreover, GFP scores were found to relate to ratings of popularity and likability among classmates (Van der Linden, Scholte, Cillessen, te Nijenhuis, & Segers, ), and to job performance aspects reflecting social effectiveness, such as leadership (Pelt, Van der Linden, Dunkel, & Born, ). Regarding the social effectiveness interpretation, it is imperative that the GFP reflects the shared variance of many personality dimensions and can thus not be interpreted as reflecting solely the effects of single or specific social traits such as agreeableness or extraversion (Van der Linden et al, ; Van der Linden, Dunkel, & Petrides, ).…”

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Early childhood social responsiveness predicts the general factor of personality in early adolescence

Dunkel

Linden

Kawamoto

2019

Infant and Child Development

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Positively valenced personality traits are positively correlated, forming a general factor of personality or GFP. A leading interpretation of the GFP is that it reflects social effectiveness. Accordingly, the GFP has been associated with positive social outcomes in adolescence. Yet little is known about its developmental origins. Given that the GFP is partially heritable, it was hypothesized that childhood social engagement would predict the GFP in early adolescence. Archived data from the Colorado Adoption Project were used to test this hypothesis. Using combinations of self and other ratings of personality, and adopting a range of different statistical techniques, confirmed that responsiveness to and fear of (inversely) strangers during the first 4 years of age predicted the GFP at age 12. Future research examining the possible developmental origins of the GFP is prescribed. Highlights Can the general factor of personality be predicted by early childhood temperament? Sociability toward strangers in the first four years was associated with the general factor of personality in early adolescence. The results point to the foundations of the general factor of personality.

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The General Factor of Personality (GFP) as social effectiveness: Review of the literature

Cited by 88 publications

References 69 publications

Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect: Evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta‐traits

Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect: Evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta‐traits

Predicting trait emotional intelligence from HEXACO personality: Domains, facets, and the general factor of personality

Early childhood social responsiveness predicts the general factor of personality in early adolescence

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