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There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than DGF

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2015

Paul J. Hanges ,
Charles A. Scherbaum  and
Charlie L. Reeve
Paul J. Hanges*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland
Charles A. Scherbaum
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Baruch College, City University of New York
Charlie L. Reeve
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Paul J. Hanges, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. E-mail: phanges@umd.edu
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In their article, Ree, Carretta, and Teachout (2015) argued that a dominant general factor (DGF) is present in most, if not all, psychological measures (e.g., personality, leadership, attitudes, skills). A DGF, according to Ree et al., is identified by two characteristics. First, the DGF accounts for the largest amount of a measure's systematic variance, and second, it influences every subdimension within the construct domain. They indicate that researchers ignore DGFs and pay inappropriate amounts of attention to the specific dimensions (DSs) even though the DGF provides most of the predictive power and the DS adds little predictive power.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 472 - 481
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2015 

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