%0 Journal Article
%T Construct redundancy within the Five-Factor Model as measured by the NEO PI-R: Implications for emotional intelligence and incremental coherence
%A GILLES E. GIGNAC
%A KERRY L. JANG
%A TIMOTHY C. BATES
%J Psychology Science Quarterly
%D 2009
%I 
%X Self-report measures of emotional intelligence (EI) have been criticized for not being associated with unique validity, independently of comprehensive measures of personality such as the NEO PI-R. In this investigation, the issue of unique validity was re-directed at personality as measured by the facets of the NEO PI-R. Specifically, based on three samples, the personality facet of Depression within the NEO PI-R was found to be so substantially predicted by ten other NEO PI-R facets as to suggest construct redundancy within the NEO PI-R (i.e., R = .93, R = .99, R = .96). Because mixed-models of EI tend to be associated with clearer construct boundaries than personality, it is suggested that EI may be associated with some scientific utility (i.e., ¡®incremental coherence¡¯), even in the total absence of any empirically demonstrable unique validity.
%K personality
%K construct redundancy
%K reliability
%K emotional intelligence
%K multiple regression
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