The General Factor of Personality, BIS–BAS, expectancies of reward and punishment, self-esteem, and positive and negative affect

Erdle, Stephen; Rushton, J. Philippe

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.025

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“…Some exceptions to this are the finding that the general factor is positively related to self-esteem and supervisor-rated job performance (Erdle, Irwing, Rushton, Park, 2010; van der Linden et al, 2010). Similar to Stability and Plasticity, the general factor has been linked with reinforcement sensitivity theory in an effort to provide a biological understanding of why individual differences in the construct exist (Erdle & Rushton, 2010). Much research remains as to whether these findings are merely measurement artifacts (Bäckström, Björklund, & Larsson, 2009; Erdle, Gosling, & Potter, 2009; McCrae et al, 2008), are extensively hindering theoretical development (Ferguson, Chamorro-Premuzic, Pickering, & Weiss, 2011), or are better represented by parsimonious blended traits instead of postulating higher-order factors (Ashton, Lee, Goldberg, & de Vries, 2009).…”

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Broad Bandwidth or High Fidelity? Evidence from the Structure of Genetic and Environmental Effects on the Facets of the Five Factor Model

Briley

Tucker‐Drob

2012

Behav Genet

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The Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality is well-established at the phenotypic level, but much less is known about the coherence of the genetic and environmental influences within each personality domain. Univariate behavioral genetic analyses have consistently found the influence of additive genes and nonshared environment on multiple personality facets, but the extent to which genetic and environmental influences on specific facets reflect more general influences on higher order factors is less clear. We applied a multivariate quantitative-genetic approach to scores on the CPI-Big Five facets for 490 monozygotic and 317 dizygotic twins who took part in the National Merit Twin Study. Our results revealed a complex genetic structure for facets composing all five factors, with both domain-general and facet-specific genetic and environmental influences. Models that required common genetic and environmental influences on each facet to occur by way of effects on a higher order trait did not fit as well as models allowing for common genetic and environmental effects to act directly on the facets for three of the Big Five domains. These results add to the growing body of literature indicating that important variation in personality occurs at the facet level which may be overshadowed by aggregating to the trait level. Research at the facet level, rather than the factor level, is likely to have pragmatic advantages in future research on the genetics of personality.

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Section: Broad Bandwidthmentioning

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Broad Bandwidth or High Fidelity? Evidence from the Structure of Genetic and Environmental Effects on the Facets of the Five Factor Model

Briley

Tucker‐Drob

2012

Behav Genet

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“…However, even taking into account constriction of effect size due to measurement error, the current and previous findings suggest that social inhibition is a contributing but not the sole influence in the developing GFP. Cross‐sectional results from Erdle and Rushton () and from Van der Linden et al () suggest that social inhibition and the GFP share roughly 10% of their variance.…”

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“…Last, in a direct test of the association between behavioural inhibition and the GFP, in two samples of college students, Erdle and Rushton () found the anticipated negative association between behavioural inhibition and the GFP. Van der Linden et al () found similar findings in two samples of children, one of which included a subsample of children with a clinically diagnosed anxiety disorder.…”

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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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“…In fact, recent research suggests that the Behavioral Approach-Drive factor is related to engagement of risky behaviors such as gambling (O'Connor, Stewart, & Watt, 2009) and aggression (Seibert, et al, 2010). In addition, it is plausible that adolescents might engage in problem behaviors such as rule-breaking and aggressive behaviors because they experience rewarding feelings (Erdle & Rushton, 2010; Yan & Dillard, 2010) from such activities. Another important predictor of adolescent aggression is behavioral inhibition, as measured by Gray's BIS system (Vitaro, Brendgen, & Tremblay, 2002; Watson, Fischer, Andreas, & Smith, 2004).…”

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Personality and Parenting Processes Associated with Problem Behaviors: A Study of Adolescents in Santiago, Chile

Bares¹,

Delva²,

Grogan‐Kaylor³

et al. 2011

Social Work Research

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Considerable research in the U.S. has established that adolescent antisocial, aggressive, and attention problems have a negative influence on adolescents' ability to become productive members of society. However, although these behaviors appear in other cultures, little is known about the development of these problems among adolescents in countries other than the U.S.. This study contributes to our understanding of personality and parenting factors associated with adolescent problem behaviors using an international sample. Data are from a NIDA-funded study of 884 community-dwelling adolescents in Santiago, Chile (Mean age=14, SD=1.4, 48% females) of mid-to-low socioeconomic status. Results revealed that rule-breaking and aggressive behaviors were both associated with greater levels of adolescent drive but lower levels of parental monitoring and positive parenting by both parents. Adolescents who reported more attention problems were more likely to exhibit driven behavior, more behavioral inhibition, to report lower levels of parental monitoring, and positive parenting by mother and father. Results of interactions revealed that the influences of positive parenting and parental monitoring on adolescent aggressive behaviors varied as a function of the gender of the adolescent. Helping parents build on their parenting skills may result in important reductions in adolescent problem behaviors among U.S. and international adolescents.

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The General Factor of Personality, BIS–BAS, expectancies of reward and punishment, self-esteem, and positive and negative affect

Cited by 76 publications

References 26 publications

Broad Bandwidth or High Fidelity? Evidence from the Structure of Genetic and Environmental Effects on the Facets of the Five Factor Model

Broad Bandwidth or High Fidelity? Evidence from the Structure of Genetic and Environmental Effects on the Facets of the Five Factor Model

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

Personality and Parenting Processes Associated with Problem Behaviors: A Study of Adolescents in Santiago, Chile

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