In conclusion, this study was designed to contribute to ongoing debates in the personality literature about the existence and meaning of the GFP. We noted that previous studies supporting the GFP are generally based on analyses of single, omnibus personality inventories. However, the GFP proposal would appear to predict that a higher-order factor from different broad-band personality inventories should correlate strongly across measures. Our objective was to determine how strongly GFPs from different inventories converged with each other using a variety of analytic techniques. We reasoned that strong convergence of apex dimensions across inventories would provide important evidence for the substantive case for the GFP6. Overall, the failure to find convergence across these measures in this study casts significant doubt on the importance of the GFP.
