Revised NEO Personality Inventory

About: Revised NEO Personality Inventory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 494 publications have been published within this topic receiving 44504 citations.

Substance or style? An investigation of the NEO-PI-R validity scales.

Abstract: The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992b) has been criticized for the absence of validity scales designed to detect response distortion. Recently, validity scales were developed from the items of the NEO-PI-R (Schinka, Kinder, & Kremer, 1997) and several studies have used a variety of methods to test their use. However, it is controversial whether these scales are measuring something that is substantive (such as psychopathology or its absence) or stylistic (which might be effortful distortion or less conscious processes such as lack of insight). In this study, we used a multimethod-multitrait approach to examine the validity of these scales in a clinical sample of 668 participants diagnosed with personality disorders or major depression. Using various indicators of both stylistic and substantive variance, confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) suggested that these validity scales measure something that may be conceptually distinct from, yet highly related to, substantive variance in responding.

Five-Factor Analysis of Buss--Durkee Hostility Inventory Neurotic Hostility and Expressive Hostility Factors: Implications for Health Psychology

Abstract: Neurotic and expressive hostility from the perspective of the five-factor model of personality. Sixty-five male and 105 female students (mean age = 25.0 years) at a public university completed the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, the revised NEO Personality Inventory, and measures of stress and depression. Correlations were computed between the hostility measures and all personality domains and facets. Profiles of participants classified into neurotic and expressive hostility groups were also produced using T scores based on normative samples. The results suggest that neurotically hostile individuals view others as distrustful, the world as threatening, and themselves as unable to cope. They experience frequent negative affect, including unexpressed anger. Expressive hostility predicts direct and positive engagement of the environment and others, but also a readiness to express anger in response to conflict. The lack of association between neurotic hostility and objective health problems may be due, in part, to an absence of exaggerated behavioral and physiological responses to stressors, whereas the positive association between expressive hostility and heart disease may result partly from frequent and intense behavioral engagement and accompanying physiological arousal.

Readability of Normal Personality Inventories

Abstract: Although several studies and professional texts address the issue of required reading levels for self-report psychopathology inventories such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 and Personality Assessment Inventory, little research effort has been directed to the examination of required reading levels for inventories measuring normal personality characteristics. In order to establish guidelines for clinical use of commonly used personality inventories, this study examined the text complexity of four widely used tests: the California Psychological Inventory, the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire, the Personality Research Form, and the revised NEO Personality Inventory. Analysis of the text complexity of complete item sets indicated that the inventories had overall reading levels at the fifth- to sixth-grade range. However, examination of the text difficulty of individual scales revealed reading level estimates as high as the eighth grade. Guidelines for test administration with subjects ...

Personality, Culture Fit, and Job Outcomes on Australian Antarctic Stations:

Abstract: This study compares the personality characteristics of Australian Antarctic expeditioners with a normative population using the Revised Neo Personality Inventory. It examines the relationship between personality and perceived fit with Antarctic station culture. The study also investigates the relationship between personality, individual attitudes, and job outcomes, including job satisfaction and intention to return to the Antarctic. Participants were 117 men and women who participated in Australian Antarctic expeditions between 1950 and 2000. Results show that expeditioners scored lower on neuroticism and higher on openness compared to the normative population. A relationship between personality and perceived fit with Antarctic station culture is found. Results also show a link between personality and job outcomes, including role conflict, job satisfaction, and actual return to the Antarctic.