A first approximation to nature-nurture ratios for eleven primary personality factors in objective tests.

Cattell, Raymond B.; Stice, Glen F.; Kristy, Norton F.

doi:10.1037/h0048561

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“…The results on the other scales fluctuate and call for replication on a large sample. In other MAVA study, Cattell, Stice, and Kristy (1957) used at least four independent objective test variables from Cattell's 0-A battery (Cattell & Warburton,196S) to measure 10 personality "factors" and obtained stronger evidence of hereditary components for three factors. To allow easier comparison with results of other twin studies, h" and F values were again calculated from the sigmas reported.…”

Section: Hereditary Factors In Personalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Contributions of twin research to psychology.

Vandenberg¹

1966

Psychological Bulletin

123

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AFTER REVIEWING SOME CRITICISMS OF THE TWIN METHOD, PARTIAL REPLIES TO THESE ARE SUGGESTED. STATISTICAL METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TWIN DATA ARE DISCUSSED, INCLUDING SOME NEW IDEAS ABOUT MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF TWIN DATA. THE REMAINDER OF THE PAPER SUMMARIZES RECENT TWIN STUDIES ON PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SENSORY VARIABLES, PERCEPTUAL TASKS, MOTOR SKILL, COGNITIVE VARIABLES, AND PERSONALITY. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR GENETICS ARE GIVEN. (4 P. REF.)

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Section: Hereditary Factors In Personalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Contributions of twin research to psychology.

Vandenberg¹

1966

Psychological Bulletin

123

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“…Together with earlier research from the Maudsley group, these papers represent an attempt to describe personality in terms of a group of independent heritable factors. The factor analytic ap proach to trait definition was also used in a series of studies by Cattell and co-workers (21,22) at the University of Illinois. The personality factors employed for phenotypic description are derived from personality tests de signed by Cattell himself.…”

Section: Behavior Genetics Of Manmentioning

confidence: 99%

Behavior Genetics

Fuller¹

1960

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

147

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“…The question of worth-whileness of such a correction of concrete variances used in MAVA equations was discussed in the early MAVA ex periments [Cattell et al, 1955[Cattell et al, , 1956], but Loehlin Ipersonal commun., 1970] for one, has considered this unnecessary, arguing that invalidity or unreli ability will reduce all estimated abstract variances proportionally, and therefore leave the heritabilities unchanged. This is true if all abstract vari ances derive from the same type of linear equa tion among concrete variances, but not when some are linear and some quadratic, as here.…”

Section: The Multiple Abstract Variance Analysis (Mava) Modelmentioning

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“…The within-family concrete variances were cal culated [as more fully described in the earlier study of Cattell et al, 1956] by subtracting the mean of the two from each, squaring, summing and dividing by N degrees of freedom (N = num ber of families). The variances between family means takes the latter from the grand mean, squares, sums, and divides by (N-1) as in general analysis of variance usage.…”

Section: The Multiple Abstract Variance Analysis (Mava) Modelmentioning

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Unitary Personality Source Traits Analyzed for Heritability

Cattell¹,

Rao

Schuerger³

et al. 1981

Hum Hered

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1,768 12- to 18-year-old boys, in pairs from five constellations (identical and fraternal twins, brothers, unrelated boys raised together and a random general population sample) were measured by the O-A (performance) personality battery on source traits UI 16, 17 and 19. Corrections were made for ages and test validities in computing observed variances. Nine equations were set up in the multiple abstract variance (MAVA) model giving expectancies from seven unknown abstract variances (genetic, threptic, and genothreptic covariances) with respect to observed variances. Maximum likelihood analysis showed that genetic or threptic contribution alone was unable to fit the data, and the best fit was given by a parsimonious form of MAVA dropping genothreptic correlations. Population heritabilities calculated on this basis were 0.46 for UI 16 (ego assertion), 0.21 for UI 17 (control, upbringing), and 0.50 for UI 19 (independence). When compared with an earlier study by the O-A, but by a different analysis, and with the same data analyzed by tho other methods, a reasonably consistent conclusion emerges that UI 17 is little inherited, while UI 16 and UI 19 are rather strongly inherited. The contribution of the behavior-genetic evidence to the theories about these source traits is discussed. It is concluded that UI 16 is initially in development a temperament factor, probably with physiological associations in metabolic rate, etc.; that UI 19 is a strong and sex-related temperament factor, and that UI 17 is a sentiment pattern of cultured inhibition almost wholly dependent on family and social upbringing.

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A first approximation to nature-nurture ratios for eleven primary personality factors in objective tests.

Cited by 54 publications

References 17 publications

Contributions of twin research to psychology.

Contributions of twin research to psychology.

Behavior Genetics

Unitary Personality Source Traits Analyzed for Heritability

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