NEO-FFI: Psychometric properties of a short personality inventory in Portuguese context

Magalhães, Eunice; Salgueira, Ana Paula; Gonzalez, António-José; Costa, João Pedro; Costa, Manuel João; Costa, Patrício; Lima, Margarida Pedroso de

doi:10.1590/1678-7153.201427405

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“…This inventory has been consistently used in different cultural contexts to assess personality (e.g., Costa & Mccrae, 1994;Costa, Terracciano, & McCrae, 2001;McCrae et al, 1999). The Portuguese adaptation of the NEO-FFI revealed high levels of internal consistency and supported its validity and reliability (Magalhães et al, 2014).…”

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“…Measures The NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992; adapted to European Portuguese by Magalhães et al, 2014), composed of 60 items, was used to assess five personality dimensions: conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, and agreeableness. This inventory has been consistently used in different cultural contexts to assess personality (e.g., Costa & Mccrae, 1994;Costa, Terracciano, & McCrae, 2001;McCrae et al, 1999).…”

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Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

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During social communication, words and sentences play a critical role in the expression of emotional meaning. The Minho Affective Sentences (MAS) were developed to respond to the lack of a standardized sentence battery with normative affective ratings: 192 neutral, positive, and negative declarative sentences were strictly controlled for psycholinguistic variables such as numbers of words and letters and per-million word frequency. The sentences were designed to represent examples of each of the five basic emotions (anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and happiness) and of neutral situations. These sentences were presented to 536 participants who rated the stimuli using both dimensional and categorical measures of emotions. Sex differences were also explored. Additionally, we probed how personality, empathy, and mood from a subset of 40 participants modulated the affective ratings. Our results confirmed that the MAS affective norms are valid measures to guide the selection of stimuli for experimental studies of emotion. The combination of dimensional and categorical ratings provided a more finegrained characterization of the affective properties of the sentences. Moreover, the affective ratings of positive and negative sentences were not only modulated by participants' sex, but also by individual differences in empathy and mood state. Together, our results indicate that, in their quest to reveal the neurofunctional underpinnings of verbal emotional processing, researchers should consider not only the role of sex, but also of interindividual differences in empathy and mood states, in responses to the emotional meaning of sentences.

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“…Also, it was carried out in a real selection process setting and not in an imaginary faking setting with manipulated faking instructions (Shoss and Strube 2011;Tett et al 2012;Topping and O'Gorman 1997). The most used self-report personality test was applied (Hojat et al 2013), one that is already validated for the Portuguese population (Magalhães et al 2014). Moreover, it is a longitudinal study while most of the published research about faking is cross-sectional (Shoss and Strube 2011;Donovan et al 2003).…”

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“…This 60-item, multiple-choice questionnaire evaluates five main dimensions of personality: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism in a five-point Likert scale that ranges from 0 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree). Additionally, the NEO-FFI had already been validated for the Portuguese population (Magalhães et al 2014).…”

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Self-report personality tests and medical school selection

Lourinho

Ferreira

Severo

2016

Psicol. Refl. Crít.

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Background: There has been a growing interest on the assessment of personality when selecting medical students. However, how faking may affect its usefulness has been poorly addressed. Therefore, we aimed to assess the faking effect on self-report personality tests in the selection process of graduates to a medical school. Methods: Sixty-seven graduates admitted as medical students completed the 60-item NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability short-form scale at the stage of applying (baseline assessment) and after they had already been admitted (follow-up assessment). Reliability was assessed by the intra-class correlation coefficient and means of the personality traits compared by two paired sample t tests. Results: At baseline assessment, the participants showed higher scores on the conscientiousness and lower scores on the neuroticism traits, respectively, 40.3 vs. 38.5 (p = 0.026) and 17.0 vs. 18.5 (p = 0.089). Also, at the follow-up assessment, the participants with low social desirability scored higher on the traits of openness to experience (−1.63 vs. 1.12, p = 0.036), conscientiousness (−3.09 vs. 0.03, p = 0.022), and neuroticism (3.88 vs. −0. 69, p = 0.012). Conclusions: Our study does not suggest the use of self-report personality assessment in medical student's selection as it can be faked particularly among applicants with low social desirability. Research is required to evaluate the faking effect on indirect personality assessment, namely through the tools that aim to select non-academic characteristics.

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“…The Portuguese version of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1989;Magalhães et al, 2014) is composed of 60 items, with a Likert-type response format with 5 response options (1 -strongly disagree to 5 -strongly agree) which allows us to obtain a reliable version of the domains of the five factors model with good values of internal consistency for the dimensions: Conscientiousness (α = .81), Neuroticism (α = .81), Extroversion (α = .75), Agreeableness (α = .72) and Openness (α = .71).…”

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Influence of personality traits in self-evaluative salience, motivational salience and self-consciousness of appearance

Mendes

Figueiras

Moss

2016

Psychol. Community Health

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Aim: The aim of this study was to understand the possible influence of personality traits on the importance and significance of perception of body image and self-awareness of appearance in individuals. Method: 214 online recruited subjects between the ages of 17 and 64 years answered to a socio-demographic questionnaire, the Portuguese version of the instruments NEO-FFI (NEO-Five Factor Inventory), ASI-R (The Appearance Schemas Inventory -Revised) and DAS-24 (Derriford Appearance Scale -short). Results: It was found that age, Neuroticism and Agreeableness dimensions significantly influence an individual's investment in body image and self-awareness of appearance. Sexual orientations differed with regard to Self-Evaluative Salience and Self-Consciousness of Appearance. Conclusion:The performed analysis showed that neuroticism and agreeableness are related to Self-Evaluative Salience and Self-Consciousness of Appearance.

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NEO-FFI: Psychometric properties of a short personality inventory in Portuguese context

Cited by 49 publications

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Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

Self-report personality tests and medical school selection

Influence of personality traits in self-evaluative salience, motivational salience and self-consciousness of appearance

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