Funnel plot asymmetry for openness, extraversion, and neuroticism appears attributable to reasons other than publication bias¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · quant-synthesis r3 · q4
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q4 i? Egger's test indicated potential funnel plot asymmetry for openness, extraversion, and neuroticism, but not conscientiousness or agreeableness. → Meyer 2023 q4 i? Trim-and-fill analyses suggest the filled studies would have had significantly lower effect sizes than zero, so the asymmetry likely reflects reasons other than publication bias. → Meyer 2023 (2)

Evidence¶

Meyer 2023¶

Meyer, J., Jansen, T., Hübner, N., & Lüdtke, O. (2023). Disentangling the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Student Achievement: Meta-Analytic Evidence on the Role of Domain Specificity and Achievement Measures. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09736-2

q4 · i? · quant-synthesis · r3

Bias analysis within the meta-analysis; no potential asymmetry was found for conscientiousness (z = –0.17, p = 0.866) or agreeableness (z = –1.14, p = 0.252). No effect sizes are printed for this analysis.

"Egger's test (Egger et al., 1997) showed potential funnel plot asymmetry for openness ( z = 3.46, p < 0.001), extraversion (z = 2.31, p = 0.021), and neuroticism (z = 2.57, p = 0.010)"

Meyer 2023 (2)¶

Meyer, J., Jansen, T., Hübner, N., & Lüdtke, O. (2023). Disentangling the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Student Achievement: Meta-Analytic Evidence on the Role of Domain Specificity and Achievement Measures. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09736-2

q4 · i? · quant-synthesis · r3

Trim-and-fill analyses (Duval & Tweedie, 2004) were conducted for openness, extraversion, and neuroticism as a follow-up to the Egger tests; the article also notes only one unpublished study was found for published-vs-unpublished comparison.

"The trim-and-fill funnel plots (see Figure S1 in the Supplementary Material) showed that the filled studies would have had significantly lower effect sizes than zero, suggesting that the asymmetry found in the funnel plots might be due to reasons other than publication bias"

Discussion¶

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