The General Factor of Personality: Normal and Abnormal

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 132-161

  Rushton, J Philippe ^a   Irwing, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology Basic Questionnaire (DAPP BQ); Empirical impetus identifying a GFP Big Five factors, and intercorrelation; General Factor of Personality (GFP) normal and abnormal, apex of hierarchy of personality; GFP and subjective well being GFP, related to dispositional affect and happiness; GFP in EAS Temperament Survey EAS Temperament Survey for Children (Parental Ratings); GFP in the Comrey Personality Scales The Comrey Personality Scales (CPS), by Andrew L. Comrey; Guilford Zimmerman Temperament Survey culmination of work by Joy Paul Guilford; Higher order general factor of personality (GFP) occupying apex of hierarchy of personality and its disorders; Rushton and Irwing (2008), evidence for a GFP two meta analyses of Big Five inter scale correlations; The GFP in Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory third edition of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI III), aiding in assessment of DSM IV Axis II personality disorders and Axis I clinical syndromes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886033030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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