Genetic and environmental influences on the EPQ-RS scales: A twin study using self- and peer reports

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 579-590

  Wolf, Heike ^a   Angleitner, Alois ^b   Spinath, Frank M ^b   Riemann, Rainer ^a   Strelau, Jan ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

EPQ RS; Genetics; Personality; Self and peer reports; Twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 3442890520     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2003.09.028     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Akaike H. Factor analysis and AIC Psychometrica 52 1987 317-332
2. Angleitner, A., Riemann, R., & Strelau, J. (1997). Genetic and environmental influences on the EPQ-RS scales: A twin study using self- and peer reports. In Poster presented at the 8th Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, Arhus, Denmark
3. Borkenau P. Riemann R. Spinath F.M. Angleitner A. Behaviour genetics of personality: The case of observational studies In Hampson S.E. (Ed.) Advances in Personality Psychology Vol. 1 2000 107-137 Psychology Press Philadelphia
4. Bouchard T.J. Genes, environment, and personality Science 264 1994 1700-1701
5. Bouchard Jr. T.J. The genetics of personality In Blum K. Noble E.P. (Eds.) Handbook of psychiatric genetics 1997 CRC Press Boca Raton, FL
6. Costa, P. T., Jr., & McCrae, R. R. (1989). NEO-PI/FFI manual supplement. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources
7. Eaves L.J. Eysenck H.J. Martin N.G. Genes, culture, and personality: An empirical approach 1989 Academic Press London
8. Eysenck H.J. Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences: The three major dimensions of personality Journal of Personality 58 1990 245-261
9. Eysenck H.J. Eysenck M.W. Personality and Individual Differences 1985 Plenum New York
10. Eysenck H.J. Eysenck S.B.G. Manual of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire 1975 Hodder & Stoughton London
11. Eysenck H.J. Eysenck S.B.G. Manual of the Eysenck Personality Scales 1991 Hodder & Stoughton London
12. Funder D.C. Errors and mistakes: Evaluating the accuracy of social judgment Psychological Bulletin 101 1987 75-90
13. Funder D.C. Colvin C.R. Congruence of others' and self-judgments of personality In Hogan R. Johnson J. Briggs S. (Eds.) Handbook of personality psychology 1997 617-647 Academic Press Limited San Diego, CA
14. Goldberg L.R. The structure of phenotypic personality traits American Psychologist 48 1993 26-34
15. Hofstee W.K.B. Who should own the definition of personality? European Journal of Personality 8 1994 149-162
16. John O.P. Srivastava S. The Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives In Pervin L.A. John O.P. (Eds.) Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research 2nd ed. 1999 Guilford New York
17. Kenny D.A. A general model of consensus an accuracy in interpersonal perception Psychological Review 98 1991 155-163
18. Kenny D.A. Interpersonal perception: A social relations analysis 1994 Guilford New York
19. Loehlin J.C. The Cholesky approach: A cautionary note Behavior Genetics 26 1996 65-69
20. Loehlin J.C. Martin N.G. Age changes in personality traits and their heritabilities during the adult years: evidence from Australian twin registry samples Personality and Individual Differences 30 2001 1147-1160
21. Lykken D.T. The diagnosis of zygosity in twins Behavior Genetics 8 1978 437-473
22. Martin N. Jardine R. Eysenck's contribution to behaviour genetics In Modgill S. Modgill L. (Eds.) Hans Eysenck: Consensus and controversy 1986 13-47 Falmer Press London
23. McCrae R.R. Costa P.T. Personality trait structure as a human universal American Psychologist 52 1997 509-516
24. McGue M. Bouchard T.J. Adjustment of twin data for the effects of age and sex Behavior Genetics 14 1984 325-343
25. Neale M.C. Cardon L.R. Methodology for genetic studies of twins and families 1992 Kluwer Academic Dordrecht, The Netherlands
26. Neale, M. C., Boker, S. M., Xie, G., & Maes, H. H. (1999). Mx: statistical modeling (5th ed.) (computer software). Richmond, VA: Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University
27. Oniszczenko, W., Angleitner, A., Strelau, J.,& Angert, T. (1993). The questionnaire of twins' physical resemblance. Unpublished, University of Bielefeld
28. Plomin R. DeFries J.E. McClearn G.E. Behavioral genetics: A primer 2nd ed. 1990 Academic Press New York
29. Riemann R. Angleitner A. Strelau J. Genetic and environmental influences on personality: A study of twins reared together using the self- and peer report NEO-FFI scales Journal of Personality 65 1997 449-475
30. Roberts R.C. Some concepts and methods in quantitative genetics In Hirsch J. (Eds.) behavior-genetic analysis 1967 214-257 McGraw-Hill New York
31. Ruch W. Die revidierte Fassung des Eysenck Personality Questionnaire und die Konstruktion des deutschen EPQ-R bzw. EPQ-RK Revised version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the construction of the German versions EPQ-R and EPQ-RK Zeitschrift für Differentielle und Diagnostische Psychologie 20 1999 1-24
32. Schmitz S. Cherny S.S. Fulker D.W. Increase in power through multivariate analyses Behavior Genetics 28 1998 357-363
33. Shrout K.J. Fleiss J.L. Intraclass correlation: Use in assessing rater reliability Psychological Bulletin 86 1979 420-428
34. Spinath F.M. Angleitner A. Contrast effects in Buss and Plomin's EAS questionnaire: a behavioral-genetic study on early developing personality traits assessed through parental ratings Personality and Individual Differences 25 1998 947-963
35. Spinath F.M. Riemann R. Hempel S. Schlangen B. Weiß R. Borkenau P. Angleitner A. A day in the life: description of the German Observational Study on Adult Twins (GOSAT) assessing twin similarity in controlled laboratory settings In Mervielde I. Deary I. DeFruyt F. Ostendorf F. (Eds.) Personality psychology in Europe Vol. 7 1999 Tilburg University Press Tilburg