Assessing the Big Five
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Abstract. A new measure of the Big Five personality constructs, the Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism Index Condensed (OCEANIC), was developed and validated. In Study 1 (N = 166), the convergent validity with the Big Five as assessed by the NEO-FFI was established. Study 2 (N = 3 808) served to investigate the structure of the instrument with stepwise exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The incremental predictive validity with respect to objective university grades was examined in Study 3 (N = 145). The results show that a) the scales of the initial item pool converge with those of an established measure of the Big Five, b) the Big Five factor model fits the data both at the item and facet level and both for subsamples of students and workers, and c) consistent with previous research, the Conscientiousness factor of the OCEANIC predicts university grades beyond intelligence measures.
Zusammenfassung. Ein neues Verfahren zur Erfassung der fünf Faktoren der Persönlichkeit (Big Five), der Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism Index Condensed (OCEANIC), wurde entwickelt und validiert. In Studie 1 (N = 166) wurde die konvergente Validität mit den fünf Faktoren untersucht, wie sie mit dem NEO-FFI erfasst werden. Studie 2 (N = 3 808) diente der Untersuchung der Struktur des Instruments unter Verwendung der schrittweisen exploratorischen Faktorenanalyse und konfirmatorischen Faktorenanalyse. Die inkrementelle prädiktive Validität hinsichtlich objektiv erfasster universitärer Prüfungsleistungen wurde in Studie 3 (N = 145) untersucht. Die Resultate zeigen, dass a) die Skalen des Ausgangsitempools mit jenen eines etablierten Erhebungsverfahrens der Big Five konvergieren, b) das Fünf-Faktoren-Modell auf die Daten sowohl auf Itemebene als auch Facettenebene gute Anpassung zeigt - und zwar auch innerhalb von Teilstichproben von Studierenden und Erwerbstätigen - sowie c) konsistent mit vorherigen Untersuchungen der Faktor Gewissenhaftigkeit des OCEANIC Prüfungsleistungen auf universitärem Niveau über Intelligenzmaße hinaus vorhersagt.
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