Substance and artifact in the higher-order factors of the Big Five
Substance and artifact in the higher-order factors of the Big Five
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.95.2.442
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发表时间：
2008-08-01
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7.6
通讯作者：
Spinath, Frank M.
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作者：
McCrae, Robert R.;Yamagata, Shinji;Spinath, Frank M.
J. M. Digman（1997）提出，大五人格特质显示出一个高阶结构，有两个因子，他称之为alpha和beta。这些因素也被解释为人格的遗传成分或评价偏见的人工制品。使用结构方程模型，作者重新分析了来自跨国双胞胎研究和美国跨观察者研究的数据，并分析了来自德国双胞胎研究的新的多方法数据。在所有的分析中，伪影模型的近似标准的均方根误差优于物质模型，但模型结合伪影和物质稍好。这些发现表明，寻找人格特质的生物学基础可能更有益地集中在5个因素本身及其特定方面，特别是在单方法研究中。
J. M. Digman (1997) proposed that the Big Five personality traits showed a higher-order structure with 2 factors he labeled alpha and beta. These factors have been alternatively interpreted as heritable components of personality or as artifacts of evaluative bias. Using structural equation modeling, the authors reanalyzed data from a cross-national twin study and from American cross-observer studies and analyzed new multimethod data from a German twin study. In all analyses, artifact models outperformed substance models by root-mean-square error of approximation criteria, but models combining both artifact and substance were slightly better. These findings suggest that the search for the biological basis of personality traits may be more profitably focused on the 5 factors themselves and their specific facets, especially in monomethod studies.