Author, as appears in the article.: Navarro-Gonzalez, D.; Escorial, Sergio; Ferrando, P.J.; Vigil-Colet, A.
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: NAVARRO GONZÁLEZ, DAVID; Escorial, Sergio; FERRANDO PIERA, PERE JOAN; VIGIL COLET, ANDRÉS
Abstract: Differential reliability associated with ability level has been proposed as a possible (partial or total) explanation
of personality differentiation across ability levels: that is to say, high ability individuals have more differentiated
personalities. Recent studies have shown that person reliability is related to general intelligence,
which is necessary to support this hypothesis. The present study analysed the factorial structure and variability
of a personality measure (Revised NEO Personality Inventory) in a sample of 7988 adult job applicants
to test whether the effects of personality differentiation hypotheses are present and whether they are modified
depending on person reliability. The results showed that the dimensionality reflected by the factorial structure
of the test depended on ability levels, but this effect was not found when the analysis was performed using individuals
with higher person reliability. As regards the variability of scores, as in previous research the ability
effects were almost negligible. The results relating to the factorial structure were coherent with the hypothesis
that personality differentiation across ability levels may be reflecting an issue of differential reliability.
Research group: INNOVACIONS TECNOLÒGIQUES EN LA MESURA DE TRETS LATENTS
Thematic Areas: Psicologia Psicología Psychology
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 0191-8869
Author identifier: 0000-0002-9843-5058; ; 0000-0002-3133-5466; 0000-0003-3818-4514
Record's date: 2018-12-17
Last page: 336
Journal volume: 139
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019188691830638X?via%3Dihub
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.12.004
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2019
First page: 331
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article