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Extracting Agency and Communion From the Big Five: A Four-Way Competition.

Theresa M Entringer^1,2, Jochen E Gebauer^2,3, Delroy L Paulhus⁴

¹German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany.

|April 5, 2021

Summary

Researchers developed new scales for agency and communion using Big Five Inventory data. Four methods proved effective, enabling future studies on these core psychological dimensions with existing datasets.

Keywords:

Big Five agency communion scale construction

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Psychology
Social Psychology
Personality Psychology

Background:

Agency and communion are foundational dimensions in psychological research.
Contemporary personality research often utilizes the Big Five framework.
Existing measures may not fully capture agency and communion within the Big Five context.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop novel, reliable, and valid scales for agency and communion.
To adapt items from the Big Five Inventory (BFI) for measuring agency and communion.
To compare the efficacy of four distinct scale-construction methods.

Main Methods:

Utilized items from the Big Five Inventory (BFI).
Employed four scale-construction methodologies: expert rating, target scale, ant colony, and brute force.
Validated scales across three independent samples (Ntotal = 942).

Main Results:

All four tested methods successfully generated reliable and valid agency and communion scales.
The developed scales demonstrated strong psychometric properties.
Convergence across the four scale-construction methods was analyzed.

Conclusions:

Novel agency and communion scales can be effectively derived from Big Five Inventory data.
The findings offer practical tools for researchers studying agency and communion using existing BFI datasets.
This research contributes to psychometric theory regarding scale construction and provides practical psychometric applications.