Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect : evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta-traits

Hengartner, Michael Pascal; Graf, Markus; Schreiber, Marc

doi:10.1002/pmh.1366

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Title:	Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect : evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta-traits
Authors:	Hengartner, Michael Pascal Graf, Markus Schreiber, Marc
DOI:	10.1002/pmh.1366
Published in:	Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour
Volume(Issue):	11
Issue:	2
Page(s):	132
Pages to:	143
Issue Date:	2017
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Wiley
ISSN:	1932-8621 1932-863X
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	155: Differential and developmental psychology
Abstract:	There is increasing interest in the construct validity of higher-order domains of the Big Five personality traits. A total of 831 persons from the Swiss population completed the International Personality Item Pool and an adaptation of the Positive and Negative Affect Scales. Using Goldberg's bass-ackwards method, we found evidence for the general factor of personality (GFP) and the two meta-traits of positive emotionality (blend of low neuroticism and high extraversion) and constraint (blend of high agreeableness and conscientiousness). In association with positive affect, the explanatory power of the GFP (r = 0.43) and positive emotionality (r = 0.37) was largely superior to extraversion (r = 0.24), conscientiousness (r = 0.18), agreeableness (r = 0.09) and openness (r = 0.04), although not neuroticism (r = -0.34). In association with negative affect, neuroticism (r = 0.41), the GFP (r = -0.36) and positive emotionality (r = -0.35) were the most powerful single predictors. We conclude that the higher-order structure of personality is best explained by the meta-traits of positive emotionality and constraint, which correspond closely to the well-established superfactors of internalizing and externalizing. We further demonstrate that these have substantial criterion validity when broad positive and negative affect is the outcome of interest. These findings help to relate Big Five meta-traits to pathological personality.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/2237
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Departement:	Applied Psychology
Organisational Unit:	Psychological Institute (PI)
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Hengartner, M. P., Graf, M., & Schreiber, M. (2017). Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect : evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta-traits. Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, 11(2), 132–143. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1366

Hengartner, M.P., Graf, M. and Schreiber, M. (2017) ‘Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect : evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta-traits’, Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, 11(2), pp. 132–143. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1366.

M. P. Hengartner, M. Graf, and M. Schreiber, “Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect : evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta-traits,” Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 132–143, 2017, doi: 10.1002/pmh.1366.

HENGARTNER, Michael Pascal, Markus GRAF und Marc SCHREIBER, 2017. Traits across the personality hierarchy differentially relate to positive and negative affect : evidence for the predictive validity of empirically derived meta-traits. Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour. 2017. Bd. 11, Nr. 2, S. 132–143. DOI 10.1002/pmh.1366

Hengartner, Michael Pascal, Markus Graf, and Marc Schreiber. 2017. “Traits across the Personality Hierarchy Differentially Relate to Positive and Negative Affect : Evidence for the Predictive Validity of Empirically Derived Meta-Traits.” Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour 11 (2): 132–43. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1366.

Hengartner, Michael Pascal, et al. “Traits across the Personality Hierarchy Differentially Relate to Positive and Negative Affect : Evidence for the Predictive Validity of Empirically Derived Meta-Traits.” Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, vol. 11, no. 2, 2017, pp. 132–43, https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1366.