More than g-Factors: Second-stratum Factors should not be Ignored

• Main Authors: WEE, Serena, NEWMAN, Daniel A., SONG, Q. Chelsea
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: dominant general factors; cognitive ability; psychological measurement; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1883
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Ree, Carretta, and Teachout (2015) outlined a compelling argument for the pervasiveness of dominant general factors (DGFs) in psychological measurement. We agree that DGFs are important and that they are found for various constructs (e.g., cognitive abilities, work withdrawal), especially when an “u...