Is the General Factor of Personality really related to frequency of agreeable, conscientious, emotionally stable, extraverted, and open behavior? : An experience sampling study
Bäckström, Martin LU and Björklund, Fredrik LU
(2021)
In Journal of Individual Differences
42(3).
p.148-155
- Abstract
Proponents of the general factor of personality have suggested that it is related to more instances of agreeable, conscientious, emotionally stable, extraverted, and open behavior. We tested this frequency hypothesis by relating the GFP from personality self-ratings to the number of instances of typical Big Five behaviors in real life. For a period of 18 consecutive days, 108 students provided responses to experience sampling items on their mobile phones. The items described concrete behaviors that were rated by experts of the Big Five as typical of either of the five traits and were phrased in a way that made them easy to interpret and respond to. The items were then validated in study 1 and it was found that the behavior correlated... (More)
Proponents of the general factor of personality have suggested that it is related to more instances of agreeable, conscientious, emotionally stable, extraverted, and open behavior. We tested this frequency hypothesis by relating the GFP from personality self-ratings to the number of instances of typical Big Five behaviors in real life. For a period of 18 consecutive days, 108 students provided responses to experience sampling items on their mobile phones. The items described concrete behaviors that were rated by experts of the Big Five as typical of either of the five traits and were phrased in a way that made them easy to interpret and respond to. The items were then validated in study 1 and it was found that the behavior correlated with Big Five ratings. In a second study, we tested the hypothesis that GFP is related to a higher frequency of GFP related behavior. The results provided little support for the frequency hypothesis and are more compatible with an interpretation of the GFP in terms of style rather than substance.
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- author
- Bäckström, Martin
LU
and Björklund, Fredrik
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021-07
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- discriminant validity, experience sampling, item popularity, personality measurement, social desirability
- in
- Journal of Individual Differences
- volume
- 42
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85101726264
- ISSN
- 1614-0001
- DOI
- 10.1027/1614-0001/a000341
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 09aa336f-311a-4822-b31c-c785976fd9b5
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000341
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- 2021-03-16 07:29:54
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