Higher-order factors of the Big Five in a multi-informant sample.

By Colin G. DeYoung. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Does self-esteem account for the higher-order factors of the Big Five? (2009, background): “DeYoung et al. (2002) and DeYoung (2006) found the same two higher-order factors which were termed Stability (alpha) and Plasticity (beta), and linked to the serotonergic and dopaminergic systems, respectively.”
A Cybernetic Theory of Psychopathology (2018, background): “CB5T describes the metatraits as reflecting variations in people’s ability to meet the two most fundamental needs of any cybernetic system that can adapt to complex and changing environments: Stability is related to the need to maintain the stability of ongoing goal-directed functioning, whereas Pla”
From madness to genius: The Openness/Intellect trait domain as a paradoxical simplex (2012, methodology): “This is a subset of the sample described by DeYoung et al. (2007)—which is itself a subset of the full ESCS (Goldberg, 1999a, 1999b).”
Construct validation using multitrait‐multimethod‐twin data: The case of a general factor of personality (2010, background): “Genetic effects on the second order factors Stability and Plasticity are substantially smaller.”
An Evolutionary Life History Framework for Psychopathology (2014, background): “Conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability (the reverse of neuroticism) load on a single higher-order factor (“metatrait”) called alpha or stability (DeYoung, 2006; Digman, 1997).”
An other perspective on personality: meta-analytic integration of observers' accuracy and predictive validity. (2010, background): “Though contemporary theorists view personality traits as hierarchically organized, with both narrower and broader traits than these five factors (Costa & McCrae, 1995; DeYoung, 2006; Digman, 1997), the array of particular trait scales within many personality inventories can be meaningfully aligned w”
The Intratextual Fundamentalism Scale: cross-cultural application, validity evidence, and relationship with religious orientation and the Big 5 factor markers1 (2010, background): “Since the Christian sample is of particular interest to our present concerns, we summarize only those findings here, although the primary focus will be upon the higher-order two-factor solution to the Big 5 (DeYoung, 2006 ; DeYoung, Peterson, & Higgins, 2002 ; Digman, 1997 ).”
The General Factor of Personality: A meta-analysis of Big Five intercorrelations and a criterion-related validity study (2010, neutral): “DeYoung (2006) compared personality self-reports against peer ratings and came to a different conclusion than McCrae et al. (2008).”
Investment management and personality type (2008, neutral): “Even though the Big Five factors have come under criticism by some scholars (Block, 1995; Previn, 1994), the overall stability and validity of the method has more recently been greatly supported (Barbaranelli and Caprara, 2000; DeYoung, 2006; DeYoung, Quilty and Peterson, 2007).”
The Influence of Environment and Personality on the Affective and Cognitive Component of Subjective Well-being (2008, neutral): “traits (DeYoung 2006).”
Cybernetic Big Five Theory. (2015, background): “…highest level of the hierarchy, they are, in fact, regularly intercorrelated such that there exist two higherorder traits, or metatraits, which we have labeled Stability and Plasticity (DeYoung, 2006; DeYoung, Peterson, & Higgins, 2002; Digman, 1997; see Section 5 for explanation of these labels).”
Stealthy Footsteps to the Boardroom: Executives' Backgrounds, Sophisticated Interpersonal Influence Behavior, and Board Appointments (2010, methodology): “Fit indexes for the measurement model were consistently high, suggesting a strong model fi t (CFI index = .98; RMSEA index = .03; χ 2 was non-signifi cant [ p -value > .20]) (Digman, 1997; Byrne, 2005; DeYoung, 2006).”
A General Factor of Personality (GFP) from two meta-analyses of the Big Five: Digman (1997) and Mount, Barrick, Scullen, and Rounds (2005) (2008, methodology): “Subsequently, DeYoung (2006) and DeYoung, Peterson, and Higgins (2001) replicated Digman’s two-factor solution and re-labeled Alpha as Stability and Beta as Plasticity.”
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies (2017, neutral): “This research has identified a hierarchical taxonomy that spans many levels of generality from specific facets (e.g., 30 dimensions in the work of Costa & McCrae, 1992) to general factors (DeYoung, 2006; Digman, 1997; Markon, Krueger, & Watson, 2005).”
Assessing Creativity With Divergent Thinking Tasks: Exploring the Reliability and Validity of New Subjective Scoring Methods (2008, background): “The five factors form two higher-order factors (DeYoung, 2006; Digman, 1997).”
Self-Actualizing People in the 21st Century: Integration With Contemporary Theory and Research on Personality and Well-Being (2018, background): “Self-actualization was significantly correlated with both metatraits of the Big Five (Stability and Plasticity), as well as all Big Five personality traits and their facets (see Table 5).”