Personality traits below facets
The consensual validity, longitudinal stability, heritability, and utility of personality nuances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10156366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | René Mõttus (0000-0002-6403-5224, University of Zurich, corresponding author), Christian Kandler (0000-0002-9175-235X, Bielefeld University), Wiebke Bleidorn (0000-0003-3795-8143, University of Zurich), Rainer Riemann (0000-0001-5805-4536, University of Zurich), Robert R Mccrae (0000-0003-1325-1485, University of Zurich) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 474-490 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspp0000100 |
| PMID | 27124378 |
| OpenAlex | W2344848300 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 80 |
| References cited | 47 |
It has been argued that facets do not represent the bottom of the personality hierarchy-even more specific personality characteristics, nuances, could be useful for describing and understanding individuals and their differences. Combining 2 samples of German twins, we assessed the consensual validity (correlations across different observers), rank-order stability, and heritability of nuances. Personality nuances were operationalized as the 240 items of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R). Their attributes were examined by analyzing item residuals, controlling for the variance of the facet the item had been assigned to and all other facets. Most nuances demonstrated significant (p < .0002) cross-method agreement and rank-order stability. A substantial proportion of them (48% in self-reports, 20% in informant ratings, and 50% in combined ratings) demonstrated a significant (p < .0002) component of additive genetic variance, whereas evidence for environmental influences shared by twins was modest. Applying a procedure to estimate stability and heritability of true scores of item residuals yielded estimates comparable with those of higher-order personality traits, with median estimates of rank-order stability and heritability being .77 and .52, respectively. Few nuances demonstrated robust associations with age and gender, but many showed incremental, conceptually meaningful, and replicable (across methods and/or samples) predictive validity for a range of interest domains and body mass index. We argue that these narrow personality characteristics constitute a valid level of the personality hierarchy. They may be especially useful for providing a deep and contextualized description of the individual, but also for the prediction of specific outcomes. (PsycINFO Database Record
Alternative five model of personality · Big Five personality traits · Big Five personality traits and culture · Construct validity · Criterion validity · Developmental psychology · Facet (psychology · Heritability · Incremental validity · Operationalization · Personality · Personality Assessment Inventory · Psychometrics · Stability (learning theory · Variance (accounting · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology
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