Five-factor personality inventories have a competence-related higher-order factor due to item phrasing
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Martin Bäckström, Lund University
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Bäckström, Martin. Five-factor personality inventories have a competence-related higher-order factor due to item phrasing. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-09-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E123081V1
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This research examines whether the items of some of the most well established five-factor inventories refers to competence. Results reveal that both experts and laymen can distinguish between items that refer to how competently a behavior is performed and items that do not (Study 1). Responses to items that refer to competence create a higher-order factor in the personality inventories (Study 2), and the variability in responses to competence related items in personality self-ratings is best modelled as general factor rather than as also tied to the specific Big Five factors (Study 3 and 4). We suggest that a focused debate on what a personality items should refer to is likely to have considerable positive consequences for both theory and measurement of personality.
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