Are personality measures valid for different populations? A systematic review of measurement invariance across cultures, gender, and age

Y Dong, D Dumas - Personality and individual differences, 2020 - Elsevier
This article aims to systematically review and synthesize the existing literature that has
tested at least one of three types of measurement invariance (MI) of a personality measure …

Ant colony optimization and local weighted structural equation modeling. A tutorial on novel item and person sampling procedures for personality research

G Olaru, U Schroeders, J Hartung… - European Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Measurement in personality development faces many psychometric problems. First, theory–
based measurement models do not fit the empirical data in terms of traditional confirmatory …

Age and gender differences in socially aversive (“dark”) personality traits

J Hartung, M Bader, M Moshagen… - European Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The strong overlap of personality traits discussed under the label of “dark personality”(eg,
psychopathy, spitefulness, moral disengagement) endorses a common framework for …

Toward a Theory of Lifespan Personality Trait Development

W Bleidorn - Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The lifespan development of personality traits has evolved from a niche topic to a core
subject of psychological science. Looking back at 20 years of research, I review the …

Personality change through a digital-coaching intervention: Using measurement invariance testing to distinguish between trait domain, facet, and nuance change

G Olaru, M Stieger, D Rüegger… - European Journal …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent intervention research has shown that personality traits can be modified through
psychological interventions. However, it is unclear whether reported effects represent …

Structural differences in life satisfaction in a US adult sample across age

J Hartung, SS Spormann, M Moshagen… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Many studies investigating age‐related mean differences in life satisfaction
disregard potential differences in the structure of the life satisfaction construct. Because …

Correlated personality change across time and age

G Olaru, M Allemand - European Journal of Personality, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The goal of this study was to examine differential and correlated change in personality
across the adult lifespan. Studying differential and correlated change can help understand …

Compiling measurement invariant short scales in cross–cultural personality assessment using ant colony optimization

K Jankowsky, G Olaru… - European Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Examining the influence of culture on personality and its unbiased assessment is the main
subject of cross–cultural personality research. Recent large–scale studies exploring …

The HEX-ACO-18: Developing an age-invariant HEXACO short scale using ant colony optimization

G Olaru, K Jankowsky - Journal of Personality Assessment, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, we developed an age-invariant 18-item short form of the HEXACO Personality
Inventory for use in developmental personality research. We combined the item selection …

Forced-choice versus Likert responses on an occupational big five questionnaire

L Watrin, M Geiger, M Spengler… - Journal of Individual …, 2019 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Conventional self-report measures are prone to response biases, which distort
measurement in any applied assessment. The forced-choice (FC) format was proposed as a …