Table 2.
Mena | Womena | Combinedb | ||||
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rG | rE | rG | rE | rG | rE | |
Big Three higher-order personality dimensions | ||||||
Positive emotionality | .05 [−.16, .26] | .07 [−.27, .13] | .13 [−.35, .09] | −.06 [−.27, .15] | −.05 [−.20, .11] | −.07 [−.21, .07] |
Negative emotionality | .44 [.22, .67] | .21 [.02, .39] | .57 [.37, .76] | .03 [−.16, .22] | .52 [.38, .66] | .15 [.02, .28] |
Constraint | .15 [−.12, .42] | −.21 [−.42, .01] | −.25 [−.46, −.04] | −.10 [−.29, .10] | −.12 [−.28, .04] | −.10 [−.24, .04] |
Selected lower-order personality dimensions | ||||||
Stress reaction | .30 [.07, .53] | .25 [.07, .43] | .34 [.10, .57] | .18 [−.01, .37] | .34 [.18, .50] | .21 [.08, .33] |
Alienation | .46 [.24, .68] | .08 [−.10, .26] | .58 [.38, .77] | −.13 [−.30, .05] | .53 [.39, .67] | .01 [−.12, .12] |
Aggression | .26 [−.02, .54] | .12 [−.06, .31] | .54 [.32, .77] | .02 [−.15, .19] | .46 [.28, .65] | .11 [−.01, .24] |
Self-control | −.03 [−.27, .22] | −.20 [−.39, −.04] | −.45 [−.68, −.21] | −.04 [−.22, .14] | −.29 [−.46, −.13] | −.09 [−.21, .04] |
Note. Underlined correlations are significantly greater than zero at p < .05; numbers in brackets are 95% confidence intervals.
Includes same-sex twin pairs.
includes same- and unlike-sex twin pairs.