Incorporating prosocial vs. antisocial trait content in Big Five measurement: Lessons from the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2)

J.J.A. Denissen; C.J. Soto; R. Geenen; O.P. John; M.A.G. van Aken

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104147

Incorporating prosocial vs. antisocial trait content in Big Five measurement: Lessons from the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2)

J.J.A. Denissen^*
, C.J. Soto
, R. Geenen
, O.P. John
, M.A.G. van Aken

^*Corresponding author for this work

Colby College
University of California at Berkeley

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	104147
Pages (from-to)	1-17
Journal	Journal of Research in Personality
Volume	96
Early online date	2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104147
Publication status	Published - Feb 2022

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Funding Information:
Data collection and preliminary analysis were sponsored by a grant of the Abbas Fund awarded to Jaap Denissen.

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Funding

Data collection and preliminary analysis were sponsored by a grant of the Abbas Fund awarded to Jaap Denissen.

Keywords

Agreeableness
Big Five
Dark personality
Honesty-humility
Prosocial and antisocial behavior

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Incorporating prosocial vs. antisocial trait content in Big Five measurement: Lessons from the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2)

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