The General Factor of Personality as Ego-Resiliency

Frontiers in Psychology

Dimitri van der Linden¹  Curtis S. Dunkel²  Atsushi Oshio³  Tetsuya Kawamoto⁴ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Education, and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands;Department of Psychology, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, United States;Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;Faculty of Letters, Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan;

关键词: resileincy;    ego adaptability;    personality structure;    structural equation (SEM);    longitudinal;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.741462

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

It was originally hypothesized by Block that what has come to be known as the General Factor of Personality (GFP) reflects ego-resiliency. We test Block’s hypothesis in two studies. In Study 1 a meta-analysis (N = 15,609) examining the relationship between the GFP and ego-resiliency/resilience was conducted. In Study 2 (N = 157) archival data from Block and Block was used to examine the association between rater judged ego-resiliency across childhood, adolescence, and into early adulthood and the GFP based on self-report in early adulthood. Using structural equation modeling for the meta-analytic data, the correlation between the GFP and ego-resiliency/resilience was estimated at r = 0.93. Using a trait-state occasion model to test the hypothesis in Study 2, the correlation between the GFP and rated ego-resiliency was estimated at r = 0.85. The results of the two studies offer substantial support for Block’s original hypothesis. Given the strength of the associations between the GFP and ego-resiliency/resilience one may conclude that the two constructs largely reflect the same underlying phenomenon.

【 授权许可】

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