Paunonen S V, Ashton M C
Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2001 Sep;81(3):524-39.
The authors compared the Big 5 factors of personality with the facets or traits of personality that constitute those factors on their ability to predict 40 behavior criteria. Both the broad factors and the narrow facets predicted substantial numbers of criteria, but the latter did noticeably better in that regard, even when the number of facet predictors was limited to the number of factor predictors. Moreover, the criterion variance accounted for by the personality facets often included large portions not predicted by the personality factors. The narrow facets, therefore, were able to substantially increase the maximum prediction achieved by the broad factors. The results of this study are interpreted as supporting a more detailed approach to personality assessment, one that goes beyond the measurement of the Big 5 factors alone.
作者比较了人格的大五因素与其构成因素的人格方面或特质在预测40种行为标准方面的能力。宽泛因素和狭义方面都预测了大量的标准，但在这方面狭义方面明显做得更好，即使狭义预测因素的数量限制为宽泛预测因素的数量。此外，人格方面所解释的标准方差通常包括很大一部分未被人格因素预测的部分。因此，狭义方面能够大幅提高宽泛因素所能达到的最大预测值。本研究结果被解释为支持一种更详细的人格评估方法，一种超越仅测量大五因素的方法。
