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Health specific traits beyond the Five Factor Model, cognitive processes and trait expression : replies to Watson (2012), Matthews (2012) and Haslam, Jetten, Reynolds, and Reicher (2012)
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Ferguson, Eamonn, Ward, Jane W., Skatova, Anya, Cassaday, Helen J., Bibby, Peter A. and Lawrence, Claire (2013) Health specific traits beyond the Five Factor Model, cognitive processes and trait expression : replies to Watson (2012), Matthews (2012) and Haslam, Jetten, Reynolds, and Reicher (2012). Health Psychology Review, 7 (Supplement 1). S85-S103. doi:10.1080/17437199.2012.701061 ISSN 1743-7199.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2012.701061
Abstract
In this article we reply to the issues raised by the three commentaries on Ferguson's (2012) article. Watson argues that the four traits identified by Ferguson (2012) – health anxiety, alexithymia, empathy and Type D – do not lie outside the Five Factor Model (FFM). We present factor analytic data showing that health anxiety forms a separate factor from positive and negative affectivity, alexithymia forms a factor outside the FFM and while emotional empathy loads with agreeableness, cognitive empathy forms a separate factor outside the FFM. Across these analyses there was no evidence for a general factor of personality. We also show that health anxiety, empathic facets and alexithymia show incremental validity over FFM traits. However, the evidence that Type D lies outside the FFM is less clear. Matthews (2012) argues that traits have a more distributed influence on cognitions and that attention is not part of Ferguson's framework. We agree; but Ferguson's original statement concerned where traits have their maximal effect. Finally, Haslam et al. suggest that traits should be viewed from a dynamic interactionist perspective. This is in fact what Ferguson (2012) suggested and we go on to highlight that traits can also influence group processes.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Health Psychology Review | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| ISSN: | 1743-7199 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | 7 | ||||
| Number: | Supplement 1 | ||||
| Page Range: | S85-S103 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/17437199.2012.701061 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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