Alcohol Involvement and the Five-Factor Model of Personality: A Meta-analysis

Author(s)
Malouff, John Michael
Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin
Rooke, Sally Erin
Schutte, Nicola
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to quantify the relationship between the Five-Factor Model of personality and alcohol involvement and to identify moderators of the relationship. The meta-analysis included 20 studies, 119 effect sizes, and 7,886 participants. Possible moderators examined included: five-factor rating type (self vs. other); study time-frame (cross sectional vs. longitudinal); sample type (treatment vs. non-treatment); type of alcohol involvement measure used; gender of the participants; and age of the participants. The meta-analysis showed alcohol involvement was associated with low conscientiousness, low agreeableness, and high neuroticism, a personality profile that: a) fits on the low end of a superordinate personality dimension that has been called self-control; and b) makes treatment difficult. Several significant moderators of effect size were found, including the following: studies of individuals in treatment for alcohol problems showed a more negative pattern of personality traits than did other studies; crosssectional studies, but not longitudinal studies, showed a significant effect for agreeableness, perhaps suggesting that low agreeableness may have a different causal link to alcohol involvement from the other factors; mixed-sex samples tended to have lower effect sizes than single-sex samples, suggesting that mixing sexes in data analysis may obscure effects.
Citation
Journal of Drug Education, 37(3), p. 277-294
ISSN
1541-4159
0047-2379
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Publisher
Baywood Publishing Co Inc
Title
Alcohol Involvement and the Five-Factor Model of Personality: A Meta-analysis
Type of document
Journal Article
Entity Type
Publication

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