Big Five or Big Two? Superordinate factors in the NEO Five Factor Inventory and the Antisocial Personality Questionnaire

By R. Blackburn, S. Renwick, J. Donnelly, Caroline Logan. 2004

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Higher-order factors in a five-factor personality inventory and its relation to social desirability (2007, background): “Much research in this tradition has used aggregated factors (Digman, 1997; Blackburn et al., 2004).”
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena (2011, background): “Although some scholars find evidence of more (Ashton & Lee 2005, Paunonen & Jackson 2000) or fewer (Blackburn et al. 2004, Musek 2007) factors, most analyses identify five: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability (sometimes referred to by its inverse—Neuroticism), and…”
Agency and communion from the perspective of self versus others. (2007, background): “Digman (1997) showed that the Big Five personality dimensions can be organized into two themes or superfactors, namely, personal growth (agency) and socialization (communion; see also Blackburn, Renwick, Donnelly, & Logan, 2004; Saragovi, Aube´, Koestner, & Zuroff, 2002).”