AUTHOR=Dunkel Curtis S. , van der Linden Dimitri , Kawamoto Tetsuya , Oshio Atsushi 

TITLE=The General Factor of Personality as Ego-Resiliency

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=12

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.741462

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.741462

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>It was originally hypothesized by Block that what has come to be known as the General Factor of Personality (GFP) reflects ego-resiliency. We test Block’s hypothesis in two studies. In Study 1 a meta-analysis (<italic>N</italic> = 15,609) examining the relationship between the GFP and ego-resiliency/resilience was conducted. In Study 2 (<italic>N</italic> = 157) archival data from Block and Block was used to examine the association between rater judged ego-resiliency across childhood, adolescence, and into early adulthood and the GFP based on self-report in early adulthood. Using structural equation modeling for the meta-analytic data, the correlation between the GFP and ego-resiliency/resilience was estimated at <italic>r</italic> = 0.93. Using a trait-state occasion model to test the hypothesis in Study 2, the correlation between the GFP and rated ego-resiliency was estimated at <italic>r</italic> = 0.85. The results of the two studies offer substantial support for Block’s original hypothesis. Given the strength of the associations between the GFP and ego-resiliency/resilience one may conclude that the two constructs largely reflect the same underlying phenomenon.</p>