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Furnham, Adrian – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
This research examined the personality trait and personality disorder correlates of creative potential, as assessed by a divergent thinking (DT) test. Over 4,000 adult managers attending an assessment center completed a battery of tests including a "bright side," normal personality trait measures (NEO Personality Inventory-Revised, or…
Descriptors: Creativity, Correlation, Personality Traits, Personality Problems
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Miller, Joshua D.; Gaughan, Eric T.; Maples, Jessica; Price, Joanna – Assessment, 2011
Despite being significantly correlated, there is evidence to suggest that the scales measuring Agreeableness from the Big Five Inventory (BFI) and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) do not capture identical constructs. More specifically, NEO PI-R Agreeableness contains content related to "honesty and humility" that is not…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Personality Measures, Measures (Individuals), Construct Validity
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Witt, Edward A.; Hopwood, Christopher J.; Morey, Leslie C.; Markowitz, John C.; McGlashan, Thomas H.; Grilo, Carlos M.; Sanislow, Charles A.; Shea, M. Tracie; Skodol, Andrew E.; Gunderson, John G.; Donnellan, M. Brent – Psychological Assessment, 2010
This study evaluates the validity of derived measures of the psychopathic personality traits of Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality from the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992) using data from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (baseline N = 733). These 3 issues were examined:…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Test Validity, Psychopathology
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Samuel, Douglas B.; Ansell, Emily B.; Hopwood, Christopher J.; Morey, Leslie C.; Markowitz, John C.; Skodol, Andrew E.; Grilo, Carlos M. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
Many personality assessment inventories provide gender-specific norms to allow comparison of an individual's standing relative to others of the same gender. In some cases, this means that an identical raw score produces standardized scores that differ notably depending on whether the respondent is male or female. Thus, an important question is…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Personality Measures, Measures (Individuals)
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Miller, Joshua D.; Tant, Adam; Bagby, R. Michael – Assessment, 2010
Depressive personality disorder (DPD) was included in the appendix of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders", Fourth Edition ("DSM-IV") for further study. Questions abound regarding this disorder in terms of its distinctiveness from extant diagnostic constructs and clinical significance.This study examines…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Validity, Personality
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Samuel, Douglas B.; Widiger, Thomas A. – Assessment, 2008
The construct of narcissism has a lengthy history and has been operationalized and measured by a variety of instruments. In this study, five narcissism scales were compared in terms of alternative conceptualizations of narcissism offered by C. C. Morf and F. Rhodewalt (2001), D. L. Paulhus (2001), and S. Vazire and D. C. Funder (2006), using the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Comparative Analysis, Self Concept, Personality Problems