Incorporating prosocial vs. antisocial trait content in Big Five measurement: Lessons from the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2)
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2022-02
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Denissen, Jaap J. A.
Soto, C.J.
Geenen, Rinie
John, O.P.
van Aken, Marcel
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Abstract
In three studies, we tried to create a novel scale within the existing Big Five Inventory 2 (BFI-2) structure to measure prosocial vs. antisocial personality traits, like the Dark Triad and honesty-humility. While our new scale converged strongly with dark personality and honesty-humility scales, we failed to establish sufficient discriminant validity vis-a-vis the existing BFI-2 agreeableness domain. Instead, we found that dark traits and honesty-humility were best measured as a facet of agreeableness that correlated strongly with other agreeableness facets and established measures of dark traits and honesty-humility. These findings suggest that honesty-humility and dark personality traits can be measured as opposite facets of a broader agreeableness-antagonism continuum when adopting the BFI-2 (Big Five) domain structure.
Keywords
Agreeableness, Big Five, Dark personality, Honesty-humility, Prosocial and antisocial behavior, Social Psychology, General Psychology
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Denissen, J J A, Soto, C J, Geenen, R, John, O P & van Aken, M A G 2022, 'Incorporating prosocial vs. antisocial trait content in Big Five measurement : Lessons from the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2)', Journal of Research in Personality, vol. 96, 104147, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104147