For everyone else, the general factor accounts for 45% of the variance, right about the amount g does on IQ tests. The factor seems to be roughly whether you have a positive or negative personality, tracking whether you are emotionally stable, extroverted, agreeable, conscientious, and open (in order of importance) or not.
Two factor models have also been suggested, tracking plasticity (extroversion and openness) and stability (stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness), which accounts for ~80% of variance.
Incidentally, some psychologists have recently suggested that there’s a general personality factor too!
Huh, intriguing.
For everyone else, the general factor accounts for 45% of the variance, right about the amount g does on IQ tests. The factor seems to be roughly whether you have a positive or negative personality, tracking whether you are emotionally stable, extroverted, agreeable, conscientious, and open (in order of importance) or not.
Two factor models have also been suggested, tracking plasticity (extroversion and openness) and stability (stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness), which accounts for ~80% of variance.