Validation of an abridged, 60-item form, of the Junior Spanish NEO inventory (JS NEO-A60)
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Validation of an abridged, 60-item form, of the Junior Spanish NEO inventory (JS NEO-A60) Jordi Ortet-Walker 1
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Laura Mezquita 1,2
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Verónica Vidal-Arenas 1
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Generós Ortet 1,2
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Manuel I. Ibáñez 1,2
Accepted: 14 October 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The aim of this study was to develop a 60-item, abridged form of the Junior Spanish version of the NEO-PI-R (JS NEO-A60), consisting of 12 items per dimension. A sample of 399 high school students completed two personality scales to examine the factor structure (Exploratory Structural Equation Model), reliability and convergent validity of the JS NEO-A60. Our sample also completed several consequential life outcome measures in order to examine criterion validity. The five-factor structure, along with representation of the majority of lower-order facets, was satisfactorily covered by the JS NEO-A60. Sources of reliability (internal consistency and test-retest) and validity (convergent) were adequate. The life outcome variables revealed links to personality traits in the expected direction. Namely, internalizing emotional symptoms (anxiety and depression) were mainly predicted by emotional instability. Symptoms of behavioral problems (aggression and antisocial behavior) were predicted by low scores in both agreeableness and conscientiousness. Life satisfaction was significantly predicted by emotional stability. Last, academic performance via students’ grades was predicted by conscientiousness and openness. We conclude that the JS NEO-A60 is a sound inventory to assess the five broad personality domains in Spanish-speaking adolescents. Keywords Personality assessment . Validation . Adolescents . Abridged . JS NEO-A60
Introduction The construct of personality has been widely studied and shown to be highly pervasive in many areas of one’s life, including consequential outcomes (Soto, 2019) as well as mental disorders (Kotov, Gamez, Schmidt, & Watson, 2010). When considering psychopathology, studies have shown the important predictive power of personality traits on the general (or p) factor of psychopathology (Caspi et al., 2014; Etkin, Mezquita, López-Fernández, Ortet, & Ibáñez, 2020), and also its internalizing and externalizing spectrums (Mezquita et al., 2015; Oltmanns, Smith, Oltmanns, & Widiger, 2018). In fact, in recent years, a new taxonomy of psychopathology has arisen, the HiTOP model (Kotov et al., 2017; Widiger et al., 2019), which accounts for broad
* Manuel I. Ibáñez [email protected] 1
Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universitat Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, 12071 Castelló, Spain
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Centre for Biomedical Research Network on Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
personality traits as core features of mental disorders from a dimensional standpoint. As for the structure of personality, the Five-Factor models, aka Big Five, (FFM; McCrae & Costa, 2010) account for the current scientific consensus as the main personality taxonomy
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