Author, as appears in the article.: Lorenzo-Seva, U.; Navarro-González, D.; Vigil-Colet, A.

Department: Psicologia

URV's Author/s: LORENZO SEVA, URBANO; Navarro-González, D.; VIGIL COLET, ANDRÉS

Keywords: response bias personality factor structure

Abstract: Background: Various studies have shown that acquiescence can distort the factor structure of personality questionnaires based on the fi vefactor model. In the present study, we analysed how acquiescence and social desirability affect the factor structure of a measure based on this personality model and a measure of aggression. Method: We analysed the factor structures of both tests before and after removing both biases in a sample of 532 adolescents aged between 11 and 18 (M= 14.75, SD= 2.1). Results: The factor structure of both tests presented a worse fi t to the expected model when response bias was not controlled, and the congruence indexes for the personality and aggression measures showed a moderate (from C= .948 to C= .872) or great (from C= .931 to C= .475) decrease, respectively. Furthermore, acquiescence was largely responsible for these effects, and social desirability effects were only shown on the aggression measure. Conclusions: Response bias, and especially acquiescence, should be controlled during the development of personality measures to avoid distorting them, especially with samples of people with a high level of acquiescence (for example, those with little education, the young or the elderly). Furthermore, the use of response bias loadings as a criterion for choosing the items minimizes those distortions.

Research group: Escalament de Variables Psicològiques i Desenvolupament de Qüestionaris

Thematic Areas: Psicologia Psicología Psychology

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 0214-9915

Author identifier: 0000-0001-5369-3099; ; 0000-0003-3818-4514

Record's date: 2017-06-13

Last page: 470

Journal volume: 28

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: http://www.psicothema.com/psicothema.asp?id=4351

Funding program: altres; SGR; 2014SGR73 altres; MEC; PSI2014-52884-P

Article's DOI: 10.7334/psicothema2016.113

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2016

First page: 465

Publication Type: Article Artículo Article