E. Ferguson et F. Patterson, THE 5 FACTOR MODEL OF PERSONALITY - OPENNESS A DISTINCT BUT RELATED CONSTRUCT, Personality and individual differences, 24(6), 1998, pp. 789-796
It has been argued that the Openness (O) dimension from the five facto
r model (FFM) of personality may in fact be an associate of the abilit
y domain more than the personality domain. This paper explores this hy
pothesis using a sample of 101 managers. Participants completed the NE
O-FFI and a measure of ability assessing the construct as typical perf
ormance. This measure was an occupational specific measure of typical
intellectual engagement (TIE), termed the ''problem solving through ch
allenge'' PSC scale. A combination of LISREL CFA and hierarchical mult
iple linear regression (HMLR) indicated that in fact O was a distinct
but related construct to the other four dimensions of the FFM (N, E, A
and C), but that O was more strongly correlated with PSC than the oth
er dimensions. These results are taken to indicate that O, while assoc
iated with personality, assesses something to do with problem solving
as a personality trait. Further the results suggest that E linked O to
the other personality scales. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All righ
ts reserved.