A general factor of personality: Evidence for the Big One in the five-factor model.

By J. Musek. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Nested Model of Well-Being: A Unified Approach (2014, background): “Indeed, given the general correlational pattern, some researchers have proposed the existence of a supraordinate personality construct called resilience, marked by low levels of neuroticism and higher levels of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness (see, e.g., Musek, 2007).”
The General Factor of Personality, BIS-BAS, expectancies of reward and punishment, self-esteem, and positive and negative affect (2010, methodology): “…Research Form, the Temperament and Character Inventory, and the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (Erdle, Irwing, Rushton, & Park, 2010; Musek, 2007; Rushton et al., 2009, 2008; Rushton & Irwing, 2008, 2009a, 2009b, 2009c, 2009d; Schermer & Vernon, 2010; Veselka et al., 2009; Veselka,…”
Relationships between trait emotional intelligence and the Big Five in the Netherlands (2010, result): “Our results are also relevant to, and can be interpreted from the perspective of, the emerging literature on the general factor of personality (GFP; Figueredo & Rushton, 2009; Hofstee, 2001; Musek, 2007; Rushton & Irwing, 2009a,b).”
The General Factor of Personality (GFP) as social effectiveness: Review of the literature. (2016, background): “First, multiple studies and meta-analyses have clearly confirmed the presence of a sizable proportion of shared variance in personality measures (e.g. Figueredo et al., 2004; Musek, 2007; Rushton & Irwing, 2011; Van der Linden Te Nijenhuis et al., 2010).”
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…”
An Evolutionary Life History Framework for Psychopathology (2014, background): “At an even higher level of abstraction, it is possible to identify a general factor of personality (GFP; Musek, 2007), which has been proposed as a correlate of slow life history and high parenting effort (Figueredo et al.”
The Circumplex of Personality Metatraits: A Synthesizing Model of Personality Based on the Big Five (2014, methodology): “…above the five personality traits, there is a level of two higher-order traits, and still above this, at the very top of a hierarchically organized structure of personality traits, is GFP, characterized by a high (vs. low) Stability/Alpha and Plasticity/Beta (Musek, 2007; Rushton & Irwing, 2011).”
What Are the Most Important Dimensions of Personality?Evidence from Studies of Descriptors in Diverse Languages (2009, result): “Recent empirical results have identified a similar, partly heritable ‘Big One’ factor in personality-questionnaire scores (Musek, 2007; Rushton, Bons, & Hur, 2008).”
Five-factor inventories have a major general factor related to social desirability which can be reduced by framing items neutrally. (2009, result): “This result has been replicated by Hendriks et al. (2002), Musek (2007), and Bäckström (2007), among others.”
The correlation between general intelligence (g), a general factor of personality (GFP), and social desirability (2010, background): “Musek (2007) described the GFP found in higher-order factor analyses of Big Five measures as the ‘‘Big One”, and stated that this factor is a basic personality dimension.”
Psychopathy as a clinical and empirical construct. (2008, result): “Similar results have been reported in other large-sample factor analytic research (DeYoung et al. 2001, Musek 2007).”
The ubiquity of common method variance: The case of the Big Five (2011, background): “Others have alternatively suggested that there may be one overriding personality factor, deemed evaluation (Goldberg & Somer, 2000; Saucier, 1997), the ‘‘Big One’’ (Musek, 2007) or the general factor of personality (GFP) (Rushton, Bons, & Hur, 2008; Van der Linden, Nijenhuis, & Bakker, 2010).”
Overlap between General Factors of Personality in the Big Five, Giant Three, and trait emotional intelligence (2012, neutral): “Other researchers have suggested that the GFP is a substantive factor with theoretical and real-life implications (Musek, 2007; Rushton et al., 2009; Van der Linden, Scholte, Cillessen, te Nijenhuis, & Segers, 2010; Van der Linden, te Nijenhuis, et al., 2010).”