Heritability of Acquiescence Bias and Item Keying Response Style Associated With the HEXACO Personality Scale

Kam, Chester Chun Seng; Schermer, Julie Aitken; Harris, Juliette; Vernon, Philip A.

doi:10.1017/thg.2013.38

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“…A third important limitation is that all our trait measures were based on self-reports. It could therefore be the case that the common effects on the personality and well-being traits were partly driven by common method biases (CMB), such as response styles related to item keying, social desirability, or acquiescence, which have been found to be partially heritable (Kam et al, 2013; Melchers et al, 2018). This mechanism is especially relevant for the common variance among personality traits, as it is proposed to mainly reflect CMB (Chang et al, 2012).…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

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Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design

Pelt

Bartels

2022

Eur J Pers

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In the current study, common and unique genetic and environmental influences on personality and a broad range of well-being measures were investigated. Data on the Big Five, life satisfaction, quality of life, self-rated health, loneliness, and depression from 14,253 twins and their siblings (age M: 31.82, SD: 14.41, range 16–97) from the Netherlands Twin Register were used in multivariate extended twin models. The best-fitting theoretical model indicated that genetic variance in personality and well-being traits can be decomposed into effects due to one general, common factor ( Mdn: 60%, range 15%–89%), due to personality-specific ( Mdn: 2%, range 0%–78%) and well-being-specific ( Mdn: 12%, range 4%–35%) factors, and trait-specific effects ( Mdn: 18%, range 0%–65%). Significant amounts of non-additive genetic influences on the traits’ (co)variances were found, while no evidence was found for quantitative or qualitative sex differences. Taken together, our study paints a fine-grained, complex picture of common and unique genetic and environmental effects on personality and well-being. Implications for the interpretation of shared variance, inflated phenotypic correlations between traits and future gene finding studies are discussed.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

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Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design

Pelt

Bartels

2022

Eur J Pers

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“…2. Note that Kam et al (2013), Lewis and Bates (2014b), Veselka et al (2009), andVeselka, Petrides, et al (2010) used a (subset of) the same UK twin sample used by . 3.…”

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Relations between HEXACO personality and ideology variables are mostly genetic in nature

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Existing work indicates that socio-political attitudes (or: ideology) are associated with personality, with Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism relating most strongly to honesty-humility and openness to experience, the two value-related domains of the HEXACO framework. Using a sample of 7067 twins and siblings of twins (including 1376 complete twin pairs), we examined the degree to which these relations arise from common genetic and environmental sources. Heritability estimates for the HEXACO personality and ideology variables ranged from .34 to .58. Environmental factors shared by twins reared together showed negligible effects on individual differences in personality and ideology. At the phenotypic level, Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism dimensions related most strongly to honesty-humility and openness to experience. These associations were mostly explained by genetic factors (48%–93%). Genetic correlations between openness to experience and the ideology scales ranged from –.29 to –.53; those between honesty-humility and the ideology scales ranged from –.31 to –.43. None of the environmental correlations exceeded | r| = .18. These results suggest that the relations between the two value-related domains of the HEXACO personality model and ideology are mostly genetic in nature, and that there is substantial overlap in the heritable components of personality and ideology.

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“…In general, because RS effects have been shown to be stable over time (Weijters et al, 2010), it may not only be fruitful to use models that allow for systematic RSs but to conceptualize RS preferences as individual-difference variables that are interesting in their own right and that can inform our understanding of human cognition and behaviors. For example, Kam, Schermer, Harris, and Vernon (2013) investigated the heritability of several RSs and used the findings to explain the prevalence of RSs across different cultures. Their work illustrates that it may be time to move beyond the view of RSs as nuisance effects and treat them as psychological phenomena that reveal interesting insights on how respondents may differ in their reaction to different questionnaire formats.…”

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Measuring response styles in Likert items.

Böckenholt

2017

Psychological Methods

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The recently proposed class of item response tree models provides a flexible framework for modeling multiple response processes. This feature is particularly attractive for understanding how response styles may affect answers to attitudinal questions. Facilitating the disassociation of response styles and attitudinal traits, item response tree models can provide powerful process tests of how different response formats may affect the measurement of substantive traits. In an empirical study, 3 response formats were used to measure the 2-dimensional Personal Need for Structure traits. Different item response tree models are proposed to capture the response styles for each of the response formats. These models show that the response formats give rise to similar trait measures but different response-style effects. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Heritability of Acquiescence Bias and Item Keying Response Style Associated With the HEXACO Personality Scale

Cited by 4 publications

References 59 publications

Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design

Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design

Relations between HEXACO personality and ideology variables are mostly genetic in nature

Measuring response styles in Likert items.

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