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How response biases affect the factor structure of Big Five personality questionnaires

  • Datos identificativos

    Identificador: PC:2910
    Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/PC2910
  • Autores:

    Morales-Vives, F.
    Vigil-Colet, A.
    Lorenzo-Seva, U.
  • Otros:

    Autor según el artículo: Morales-Vives, F.; Vigil-Colet, A.; Lorenzo-Seva, U.
    Departamento: Psicologia
    Autor/es de la URV: MORALES VIVES, FÀBIA; VIGIL COLET, ANDRÉS; LORENZO SEVA, URBANO
    Resumen: Several studies have shown that personality self-reports may be affected by response biases, and that this may have consequences on their factor structure, especially in samples with little education or in adolescents. The current study aims to understand the effect of social desirability and acquiescence on the factor structure of three questionnaires based on the Five Factor Model of personality: the Big Five Inventory, the Five Factor Personality Inventory and the Overall Personality Assessment Scale. The data was analysed using a new method that removes the effects of both social desirability and acquiescence from the inter-item correlation matrix used for factor analysis. These effects were assessed in a sample of 392 university students, which contained no individuals with low educational levels, children or adolescents. The results showed that, even in samples with no individuals with low educational levels, controlling for social desirability and acquiescence led to a simpler factor structure that is more congruent with the theoretical solution expected from the five factor model. It also seems that in the domain of inventories based upon the five factor model, this effect may be specially due to acquiescence.
    Grupo de investigación: Escalament de Variables Psicològiques i Desenvolupament de Qüestionaris
    Áreas temáticas: Psicologia Psicología Psychology
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 0212-9728
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-2095-0244; 0000-0003-3818-4514; 0000-0001-5369-3099
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2017-07-28
    Página final: 596
    Volumen de revista: 33
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: http://revistas.um.es/analesps/article/view/analesps.33.3.254841
    DOI del artículo: 10.6018/analesps.33.2.254841
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2017
    Página inicial: 589
    Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article
  • Palabras clave:

    Personalitat--Tests
    Psicologia
    Psicología
    Psychology
    0212-9728
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