PSYCH 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Alpha Beta, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
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Humility/honesty (honest, sincere, helpful, fair vs. dishonest, conceited, boastful) (integrity) Agreeableness (vs. anger) (gently, peaceful vs. belligerent, quick tempered, hostile) Predicting some important social behaviors may require that we separate out h form agreeableness. Lexical approaches cross-culturally some evidence that only 3 factors really make sense across many different languages. The big 2: a and b (greek symbols) One could, of course, factor analyze the 5 traits of the big 5 and see if they also have together. In 1997, john digman did this and reported that 2 higher order dimensions explain the relationship among the five factors. He labeled these a and b (greek symbols) a. The big 1: the general factor personality (not substantial indicator of personality, more about saying good things about one-self) Guess what, the two higher order factors are themselves correlated. According to some new evidence, it might be the general factor of personality. Is the current dominant approach in personality psychology.
