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Personality and Prejudice: From Big Five Personality Factors to Facets
Author(s) -
Ekehammar Bo,
Akrami Nazar
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00460.x
Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , psychology , agreeableness , personality , openness to experience , facet (psychology) , social psychology , big five personality traits , predictive power , developmental psychology , extraversion and introversion , philosophy , epistemology
Extending our previous research on personality and prejudice, we tested the predictive power of Big Five facet compared with factor scores in three studies. Study 1 ( N =170) examined the predictive power of factors and facets when explaining generalized prejudice, a composite of four prejudice types. Study 2 ( N =158) focused on sexism and Study 3 ( N =80) examined the impact of personality and experimentally manipulated social norm against expressing sexism. Multiple regression analyses showed the strongest facets (Tender‐Mindedness and Values) to outperform the strongest factors (Agreeableness and Openness to Experience) in predicting prejudice in all three studies. We discuss the outcome against the background of previous empirical findings and the two major approaches—the personality and the social psychological—to explaining individual differences in prejudice.