Table 4.
Correlations between the Corresponding Childhood and Adult Personality Factors, and Significant Multiple Correlations
| Corresponding factor | Multiple factors | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor | r | K | R | F | df | p | |
| Extraversion (E) | .27** | 3 | .38 | 25.22 | 5, 756 | .00 | |
| .29** | 3 | .39 | 36.03 | 4, 794 | .00 | ||
| Conscientiousness (C) | .25** | ||||||
| .23** | |||||||
| Openness (O) | .17** | ||||||
| .16** | |||||||
| Agreeableness (A) | .09* | 2 | .28 | 15.82 | 4, 757 | .00 | |
| .08* | |||||||
| Neuroticism (N) | .00 | ||||||
| .00 | |||||||
Note. The upper value in each cell is based on the adult factors derived from 130 variables (Big Five factor scores). The lower value is based on the adult factors derived from the two administrations of the BFI (BFI factor scores).
K = Number of childhood factors included in the prediction.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.