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Heritabilities of ego strength (factor C), super ego strength (factor G), and self‐sentiment (factor Q 3 ) by multiple abstract variance analysis
Author(s) -
Cattell Raymond B.,
Schuerger James M.,
Klein Thomas W.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198210)38:4<769::aid-jclp2270380413>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - psychology , id, ego and super ego , personality , variance (accounting) , population , statistics , social psychology , demography , mathematics , economics , accounting , sociology
Tested over 3,000 boys (identical and fraternal twins, ordinary sibs, general population) aged 12–18 on Ego Strength, Super Ego Strength, and Self Sentiment. The Multiple Abstract Variance Analysis (MAVA) method was used to obtain estimates of abstract (hereditary, environmental) variances and covariances that contribute to total variation in the three traits. Within‐family heritabilities for these traits were about 0.30, 0.05, and 0.65. Between‐family heritabilities were 0.60, 0.08, and 0.45. Within‐family correlations of genetic and environmental deviations were trivial, unusually so among personality variables, but between‐family values showed the usual high negative values, consistent with the law of coercion to the biosocial mean.