Accounting for the evaluative factor in self-ratings provides a more accurate estimate of the relationship between personality traits and well-being
(2021) In Journal of Research in Personality 93.- Abstract
- Social desirability may cause spurious relations in self-rating measures. The present study sought to disentangle socially desirable responding and content in the relation between measures of personality traits and well-being. Social desirability was operationalized as the evaluative factor (the tendency to react to evaluative content in questionnaire items). We collected self- and peer-ratings of personality and self-ratings of well-being from 219 participants. The evaluative factor in personality self-ratings significantly predicted well-being and explained more variance than all Big Five traits combined. The evaluative factor in personality peer-ratings had no unique relation to well-being. These findings suggest that previous estimates... (More)
- Social desirability may cause spurious relations in self-rating measures. The present study sought to disentangle socially desirable responding and content in the relation between measures of personality traits and well-being. Social desirability was operationalized as the evaluative factor (the tendency to react to evaluative content in questionnaire items). We collected self- and peer-ratings of personality and self-ratings of well-being from 219 participants. The evaluative factor in personality self-ratings significantly predicted well-being and explained more variance than all Big Five traits combined. The evaluative factor in personality peer-ratings had no unique relation to well-being. These findings suggest that previous estimates of the relationship between personality traits and well-being have generally been exaggerated. Different methods of accounting for social desirability are discussed. (Less)
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- Kallio Strand, Kalle ; Bäckström, Martin LU and Björklund, Fredrik LU
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- publishing date
- 2021-06-07
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- personality, well-being, social desirability, self-ratings, peer-ratings
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- Journal of Research in Personality
- volume
- 93
- article number
- 104120
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- scopus:85108078250
- ISSN
- 0092-6566
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104120
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- English
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