Five into One doesn't go: A Critique of the General Factor of Personality

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 162-186

  Ferguson, Eamonn ^a   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^b   Pickering, Alan ^b   Weiss, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anusic, Schimmack, Pinkus, and Lockwood (2009) halo factor evidence in personality measurement; Evaluation of psychometric evidence presented for GFP; Evidence for GFP from Rushton and colleagues, psychometric and behavioral genetic studies; Five Into One Doesn't Go a critique of general factor of personality; GFP linked to fitness longevity, general index of fitness evidence that C is related to longevity; GFP proponents, covariation among FFM domains substantive, theoretical basis in life history theory; Mixed EFA CFA approach measures known to conform to structures used; Other challenges to GFP predictive validity over and above FFM domains; Personality disorder, psychopathology and the GFP; Theory of the General Factor of Personality (GFP) domains of five factor model (FFM) 1 neuroticism (N), extraversion (E), openness (O), agreeableness (A), and conscientiousness (C) empirically intercorrelated

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886008084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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