John F Finch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Finch |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Finch |
| SIGNATURE | FINCH J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mitchell Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Physical health, positive and negative affect, and personality: A longitudinal analysis
Longitudinal Effects of Hope on Depression and Anxiety: A Latent Variable Analysis
This study tested the prospective effects of hope on depression and anxiety using a longitudinal design. A sample of 522 college students completed self‐report measures of hope, depression, and anxiety at three time points, with 1‐month delays between administrations. Structural equation modeling was employed to test two cross‐lagged panel models of the reciprocal effects of the Agency and Pathways components of hope on depression and anxiety. Re…
Predicting Depression From Temperament, Personality, and Patterns of Social Relations
The present study used a levels‐of‐analysis perspective (McAdams, 1995) to link temperament to depression. We hypothesized a mediational role for three personality variables (Agreeableness, Extraversion Neuroticism) and two interpersonal variables (social support and negative social exchange) in channeling the effects of temperament. A structural equation modeling approach supported the hypothesis that these three personality variables were media…
A Comparison of the Influence of Conflictual and Supportive Social Interactions on Psychological Distress
Following a quantitative review examining the relative influence of positive and negative social exchanges on emotional health, a second‐order factor model of negative social exchange was tested and supported in a sample of 906 college students. Structural equation analysis exploring the unique effects of negative social exchange and perceived support satisfaction on depression revealed both variables to predict this outcome, over and above the c…
Two Approaches for Identifying Shared Personality Dimensions Across Methods
Two approaches are illustrated, one exploratory and one confirmatory, or determining the extent to which personality dimensions are invariant across different methods of measurement. Using the interbattery factor model (Browne, 1979, 1980; Tucker, 1958), Study 1 explores the links between the Five‐Factor Model of Personality, as assessed by the NEO‐PI (Costa & McCrae, 1985), and the Needs system of Murray, as assessed by the Personality Research …
Social Undermining, Support Satisfaction, and Affect: A Domain‐Specific Lagged Effects Model
Using a latent variable structural equation modeling approach, relations among social undermining, support satisfaction, and affect were studied in a sample of 330 college students. Longitudinal analyses revealed lagged reciprocal relations over a 1‐week interval between (1) social undermining and negative affect and (2) support satisfaction and positive affect. Cross‐domain associations, by comparison, were nonsignificant; social undermining was…
Personality Measurement
The Investigation of Personality Structure: Statistical Models
The self as a mediator between personality and adjustment
The self can be conceptualized as a mediating agent that translates personality into situated goal-directed activities and adaptation. This research used a level-of-analysis approach to link personality dimensions (Level I) to self-systems (Level II) and to teacher ratings of adjustment in African American, Mexican American, and European American students (N = 317). The authors hypothesized that links among aspects of self-esteem and teacher rati…
Competitiveness mediates the link between personality and group performance
The performance of individuals within groups, and of groups as units, is the product of immediate goal structures and personality differences pertinent to those goals among group members. A level-of-analysis approach linked the dimension of agreeableness to situated competitiveness and task performance in group settings. Hypotheses were (a) individual differences in self-rated and other-rated competitiveness are related (inversely) to the Big Fiv…
The robustness of test statistics to nonnormality and specification error in confirmatory factor analysis.
Monte Carlo computer simulations were used to investigate the performance of three X 2 test statistics in confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Normal theory maximum likelihood)~2 (ML), Browne's asymptotic distribution free X 2 (ADF), and the Satorra-Bentler rescaled X 2 (SB) were examined under varying conditions of sample size, model specification, and multivariate distribution. For properly specified models, ML and SB showed no evidence of bias …
Predicting the Everyday Life Events of Older Adults
Predicting the everyday life events of people is a relatively unexplored topic, although several major theoretical approaches deal with related issues. The dispositional approach would assign a causal role to personality, while the situational approach would locate causation in the person's environment. Variations on these two extreme themes invoke an interactionist interpretation. Beyond this, a genuinely transactional approach focuses on the en…
Positive and negative social ties among older adults: Measurement models and the prediction of psychological distress and well‐being
The factor structure of positive and negative social ties was studied among 246 older adults who were either recently physically disabled, recently conjugally bereaved, or matched controls. Covariance structure analyses were carried out on a network measure to determine whether positive and negative social ties represent independent domains of social experience, and to assess the degree to which their structure is invariant across groups undergoi…
Structure and Meaning in Papua New Guinea Highland Mythology
Positive and negative social ties among older adults: Measurement models and the prediction of psychological distress and well‐being
The factor structure of positive and negative social ties was studied among 246 older adults who were either recently physically disabled, recently conjugally bereaved, or matched controls. Covariance structure analyses were carried out on a network measure to determine whether positive and negative social ties represent independent domains of social experience, and to assess the degree to which their structure is invariant across groups undergoi…
The self as a mediator between personality and adjustment
The self can be conceptualized as a mediating agent that translates personality into situated goal-directed activities and adaptation. This research used a level-of-analysis approach to link personality dimensions (Level I) to self-systems (Level II) and to teacher ratings of adjustment in African American, Mexican American, and European American students (N = 317). The authors hypothesized that links among aspects of self-esteem and teacher rati…
Competitiveness mediates the link between personality and group performance
The performance of individuals within groups, and of groups as units, is the product of immediate goal structures and personality differences pertinent to those goals among group members. A level-of-analysis approach linked the dimension of agreeableness to situated competitiveness and task performance in group settings. Hypotheses were (a) individual differences in self-rated and other-rated competitiveness are related (inversely) to the Big Fiv…
The Investigation of Personality Structure: Statistical Models
Physical health, positive and negative affect, and personality: A longitudinal analysis
Structure and Meaning in Papua New Guinea Highland Mythology
Positive and negative social ties among older adults: Measurement models and the prediction of psychological distress and well‐being
The factor structure of positive and negative social ties was studied among 246 older adults who were either recently physically disabled, recently conjugally bereaved, or matched controls. Covariance structure analyses were carried out on a network measure to determine whether positive and negative social ties represent independent domains of social experience, and to assess the degree to which their structure is invariant across groups undergoi…
Predicting the Everyday Life Events of Older Adults
Predicting the everyday life events of people is a relatively unexplored topic, although several major theoretical approaches deal with related issues. The dispositional approach would assign a causal role to personality, while the situational approach would locate causation in the person's environment. Variations on these two extreme themes invoke an interactionist interpretation. Beyond this, a genuinely transactional approach focuses on the en…
The robustness of test statistics to nonnormality and specification error in confirmatory factor analysis.
Monte Carlo computer simulations were used to investigate the performance of three X 2 test statistics in confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Normal theory maximum likelihood)~2 (ML), Browne's asymptotic distribution free X 2 (ADF), and the Satorra-Bentler rescaled X 2 (SB) were examined under varying conditions of sample size, model specification, and multivariate distribution. For properly specified models, ML and SB showed no evidence of bias …
Personality Measurement
The Investigation of Personality Structure: Statistical Models
The self as a mediator between personality and adjustment
The self can be conceptualized as a mediating agent that translates personality into situated goal-directed activities and adaptation. This research used a level-of-analysis approach to link personality dimensions (Level I) to self-systems (Level II) and to teacher ratings of adjustment in African American, Mexican American, and European American students (N = 317). The authors hypothesized that links among aspects of self-esteem and teacher rati…
Competitiveness mediates the link between personality and group performance
The performance of individuals within groups, and of groups as units, is the product of immediate goal structures and personality differences pertinent to those goals among group members. A level-of-analysis approach linked the dimension of agreeableness to situated competitiveness and task performance in group settings. Hypotheses were (a) individual differences in self-rated and other-rated competitiveness are related (inversely) to the Big Fiv…
Social Undermining, Support Satisfaction, and Affect: A Domain‐Specific Lagged Effects Model
Using a latent variable structural equation modeling approach, relations among social undermining, support satisfaction, and affect were studied in a sample of 330 college students. Longitudinal analyses revealed lagged reciprocal relations over a 1‐week interval between (1) social undermining and negative affect and (2) support satisfaction and positive affect. Cross‐domain associations, by comparison, were nonsignificant; social undermining was…
A Comparison of the Influence of Conflictual and Supportive Social Interactions on Psychological Distress
Following a quantitative review examining the relative influence of positive and negative social exchanges on emotional health, a second‐order factor model of negative social exchange was tested and supported in a sample of 906 college students. Structural equation analysis exploring the unique effects of negative social exchange and perceived support satisfaction on depression revealed both variables to predict this outcome, over and above the c…
Two Approaches for Identifying Shared Personality Dimensions Across Methods
Two approaches are illustrated, one exploratory and one confirmatory, or determining the extent to which personality dimensions are invariant across different methods of measurement. Using the interbattery factor model (Browne, 1979, 1980; Tucker, 1958), Study 1 explores the links between the Five‐Factor Model of Personality, as assessed by the NEO‐PI (Costa & McCrae, 1985), and the Needs system of Murray, as assessed by the Personality Research …
Predicting Depression From Temperament, Personality, and Patterns of Social Relations
The present study used a levels‐of‐analysis perspective (McAdams, 1995) to link temperament to depression. We hypothesized a mediational role for three personality variables (Agreeableness, Extraversion Neuroticism) and two interpersonal variables (social support and negative social exchange) in channeling the effects of temperament. A structural equation modeling approach supported the hypothesis that these three personality variables were media…
Longitudinal Effects of Hope on Depression and Anxiety: A Latent Variable Analysis
This study tested the prospective effects of hope on depression and anxiety using a longitudinal design. A sample of 522 college students completed self‐report measures of hope, depression, and anxiety at three time points, with 1‐month delays between administrations. Structural equation modeling was employed to test two cross‐lagged panel models of the reciprocal effects of the Agency and Pathways components of hope on depression and anxiety. Re…
Physical health, positive and negative affect, and personality: A longitudinal analysis
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Personality (8 works) · Structural equation modeling (8 works) · Big Five personality traits (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works) · Confirmatory factor analysis (3 works)