Personality Structure Across Cultures: A Multimethod Evaluation

Personality structure was assessed in 4 countries (Canada, Finland, Poland, and Germany) using both an established verbal personality inventory and a new nonverbal personality questionnaire. A 5-factor structure was found to be highly robust in that it was replicated across the 4 cultures and across...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 1992-03, Vol.62 (3), p.447-456
Main Authors: Paunonen, Sampo V, Jackson, Douglas N, Trzebinski, Jerzy, Forsterling, Friedrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Cross Cultural Differences
Culture
Differential and comparative psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Inventories
Personality
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Questionnaires
Social research
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Summary:Personality structure was assessed in 4 countries (Canada, Finland, Poland, and Germany) using both an established verbal personality inventory and a new nonverbal personality questionnaire. A 5-factor structure was found to be highly robust in that it was replicated across the 4 cultures and across the 2 personality assessment methods. The data are discussed in terms of (a) the failure to support a semantic similarity interpretation of personality item responses, (b) the factorial validity of the new nonverbal personality questionnaire, and (c) the viability of the popular 5-factor model of personality.
ISSN:0022-3514
1939-1315
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.62.3.447