TY - JOUR
T1 - Establishing construct validity for Openness-to-Experience in middle childhood
T2 - Contributions from personality and temperament
AU - Herzhoff, Kathrin
AU - Tackett, Jennifer L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We would like to thank the families in our study for their participation and the research assistants at the Personality Across Development Lab for their help in the data collection.
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - Controversy exists over the validity of child Openness-to-Experience (OE). To establish construct validity for child OE, data were collected for 346 children (51% girls) aged 9-to-10-years (M=9.92, SD=0.83). Parents completed questionnaires about their children's personality, temperament, and behavioral problems and competencies. Factor analyses of relevant personality and temperament facets revealed a robust OE factor made up of three facets: Intellect, Imagination, and Sensitivity. Evidence for convergent and discriminant validity was established via associations with other personality traits, and behavioral problems and competencies. Results underscore the importance of drawing from both temperament and personality literatures in attempts to establish construct validity for child trait domains as well as examining facet-level associations between OE and child behavior.
AB - Controversy exists over the validity of child Openness-to-Experience (OE). To establish construct validity for child OE, data were collected for 346 children (51% girls) aged 9-to-10-years (M=9.92, SD=0.83). Parents completed questionnaires about their children's personality, temperament, and behavioral problems and competencies. Factor analyses of relevant personality and temperament facets revealed a robust OE factor made up of three facets: Intellect, Imagination, and Sensitivity. Evidence for convergent and discriminant validity was established via associations with other personality traits, and behavioral problems and competencies. Results underscore the importance of drawing from both temperament and personality literatures in attempts to establish construct validity for child trait domains as well as examining facet-level associations between OE and child behavior.
KW - Behavioral competencies
KW - Child personality
KW - Openness-to-experience
KW - Psychopathology
KW - Temperament
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.02.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.02.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84860575541
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 46
SP - 286
EP - 294
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
IS - 3
ER -