Anxiety, Depression, and Personality
Siegfried Kasper, Johan A. den Boer, J. M. Ad Sitsen in Handbook of Depression and Anxiety, 2003
There are many instruments to assess the personality differences among individuals. Measurements are sometimes categorical and called qualitative measurements. More often, personality is expressed as quantitative measurements. But qualitative measurements as well as quantitative measurements must be reliable (the measurement is dependable) and valid (the test measures what the rater is trying to measure). Some often-used instruments are the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and the Rorschach inkblot test [1]. A widely used questionnaire based on the consensual “Big Five” model, is the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R). Although reliance on self-report may seem unsound, the self-report version of the NEO is stable over time, and the factor structure replicates in different cultures around the world [9].
Age Differences in Open-Mindedness: From 18 to 87-Years of Age
Published in Experimental Aging Research, 2022
One further possible explanation for differences in open-mindedness across ages comes from the Baltimore longitudinal study (Terracciano et al., 2005). In this study of 1944 participants with an age range of 20–96 years of age multidisciplinary data has been collected since 1958. One of the tests that has been administered at regular intervals is the revised NEO Personality inventory (NEO-PI-R) (P. T. Costa & McCrae, 1992; Terracciano et al., 2005). This measure of personality includes a facet of ‘openness’ as a personality trait, which is related to the Big 5 model (Rothmann & Coetzer, 2003) and is associated with open-mindedness from the AOT (Haran et al., 2013) and AOT-e (Pennycook et al., 2019). The key differences between these concepts are that persons that are high in the openness trait are open to new experiences, new feelings and new values (Sharma, Bottom, & Elfenbein, 2013; Terracciano et al., 2005). Much like the open-mindedness in this paper, Terracciano et al. (2005) found that openness declines with age. This may be driven by the reluctance to reassess established social, political and religious views (Krosnick & Alwin, 1989).
The moderating role of personality traits in the relationship between chronotype and depressive symptoms
Published in Chronobiology International, 2022
Joanna Gorgol, Wojciech Waleriańczyk, Maciej Stolarski
The Big Five personality traits were measured with the Polish adaptation (Rowiński et al. 2014) of the International Personality Item Pool of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (IPIP-NEO-PI-R; Goldberg et al. 2006). IPIP-NEO-PI-R consists of 90 items that examine five scales: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Each scale comprises six subscales. This questionnaire has a five-point Likert-type response format, ranging from 1 – ‘it describes me inaccurately’ to 5 – ‘it describes me accurately.’ The Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient for the Polish version of this questionnaire ranges between .72 and .85, showing sufficient internal consistency for research purposes. To compute the two higher-order personality factors, we followed Digman’s (1997) and DeYoung et al.’s (2002) instructions: for alpha-stability we summed the scores for the agreeableness, conscientiousness, and inverted neuroticism (emotional stability), while for the beta-plasticity we summed the scores for extraversion and openness to experience.
Development and validation of a HEXACO situational judgment test
Published in Human Performance, 2019
Janneke K. Oostrom, Reinout E. de Vries, Mariska de Wit
The Ministry of Defense uses the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992) to measure applicants’ Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Each scale is measured using 48 items that ask respondents to indicate the accuracy of different statements about themselves with response options ranging from 1 (very inaccurate) to 5 (very accurate). We were only able to retrieve stanine scores, ranging from 1 (very low) to 9 (very high) based on general selection norms. The test manual reported adequate Cronbach’s alphas for the five scales (Neuroticism = .92, Extraversion = .89, Openness to Experience = .87, Agreeableness = .86, Conscientiousness = .90) and test–retest coefficients after 6 years (Neuroticism = .83, Extraversion = .82, Openness to Experience = .83, Agreeableness = .63, Conscientiousness = .79).
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