Millennial Contrarianism: The Five-Factor Approach to Personality Description 5 Years Later

By J. Block. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Critique of the five-factor model of personality (2008, unknown): “Indeed, various alternative dimensions have been put forward (e.g., see Block, 1995, 2001; Boyle & Smári, 1997, 1998; Boyle et al., 1995; Cattell, 1995; Eysenck, 1991, 1992, 1993; Hough, 1992; McAdams, 1992; McKenzie, 1998; Zuckerman, 2002; Zuckerman et al., 1993).”
The Circumplex of Personality Metatraits: A Synthesizing Model of Personality Based on the Big Five (2014, background): “On other hand, some scholars have expressed their doubts as to whether the purely descriptive nature of the Big Five model can be overcome, and some have also criticized the entire Five Factor Theory (Block, 2001; Strelau, 2002).”
A Five-Factor Theory Perspective (2002, methodology): “We offer our preferred theories, models, and methods in this and the following chapter, but even in the current climate of emerging consensus the reader should realize that our preferences are not universally shared (J. Block, 2001).”
The Five-Factor Framing of Personality and Beyond: Some Ruminations (2010, background): “I note that I am on record from years ago as a “contrarian” with regard to then accepting the questionnaire- or descriptor-based five-factor approach to portraying personality structure as a fundamental advance in the understanding of human personality (Block, 1995a, 1995b, 2001).”
Toward a Theory of the Big Five (2010, methodology): “Evidence points to serotonin and dopamine as likely major components of the general mechanisms of Stability and Plasticity, respectively (DeYoung et al., 2002; DeYoung & Gray, 2009).”
The location of trait emotional intelligence in personality factor space. (2007, background): “Indeed, it is difficult to maintain that a handful of higher-order trait scores can provide a complete description of human personality (Block, 2001; Butcher & Rouse, 1996; Cattell, 1995; Paunonen & Jackson, 2000).”
The bright and dark sides of leader traits: A review and theoretical extension of the leader trait paradigm (2009, background): “One prominent critic – Block (1995, 2001) – focused mostly on the inductive origins of the taxonomy, both statistically (limitations in the use of factor analysis) and methodologically (the input into the factor analysis, namely the lexical and questionnaire approaches).”
The Big Five and enduring marriages (2004, background): “…advance our understanding of the factors that foster dissatisfying marriages and help further integrate the study of marital interactions with one of the major organizing frameworks in personality psychology, the Big Five (e.g., Funder, 2001; John & Srivastava, 1999; but see Block, 1995, 2001).”
Assessment and diagnosis of personality disorder: perennial issues and an emerging reconceptualization. (2007, methodology): “Such a model has its detractors (Block 2001) and limitations in describing personality comprehensively (Hooker & McAdams 2003), and would need further specification to have clinical utility (Verheul 2005), but the common model presented emerges from substantial research and represents a solid base…”
Developing a model for adult temperament (2007, background): “Although the Big Five is presently the most researched model of personality, Saucier (2001, 2003) and others ( Block, 1995, 2001 ) have questioned the universality of the model.”