Extracting Agency and Communion From the Big Five: A Four-Way Competition.

ABSTRACT: Agency and communion are the two fundamental content dimensions in psychology. The two dimensions figure prominently in many psychological realms (personality, social, self, motivational, cross-cultural, etc.). In contemporary research, however, personality is most commonly measured within the Big Five framework. We developed novel agency and communion scales based on the items from the most popular nonpropriety measure of the Big Five-the Big Five Inventory. We compared four alternative scale-construction methods: expert rating, target scale, ant colony, and brute force. Across three samples (N_total = 942), all methods yielded reliable and valid agency and communion scales. Our research provides two main contributions. For psychometric theory,

SUBMITTER: Entringer TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9301169 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature