Cross‐culturally recurrent personality factors: analyses of three factors

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 451-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boele De Raad ◽  
Dean Peabody
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors

This study proceeds from an earlier one that examined the ‘Big Five’ factors (Peabody & De Raad, 2002). That study considered the substantive nature of five factors from six European psycholexical studies. The results supported Big Five Factor III (Conscientiousness), but Factors I (Extraversion) and II (Agreeableness) often split into two factors. Big Five Factors IV (Emotional Stability) and V (Intellect) often failed to appear in coherent form. The failures might cause the splits, with five factors required. For three factors, the splits might not occur, and the three large (‘Big Three’) factors could appear. The present study pursues this implication, using three factors from the same six studies. The factors that split are now generally unified. This supports the Big Three and not the Big Five. This result is generally confirmed for several additional studies. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Factor Analysis of the NEO-PI and the Comrey Personality Scales

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 355-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raegyu Hahn ◽  
Andrew L. Comrey
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Response Bias ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Major Factors

The 1985 version of the NEO-PI of Costa and McCrae and the Comrey Personality Scales were administered to a sample of 227 volunteers. The former was designed to measure the “Big Five” factors of personality, using single scales for the factors of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, and six “facet scales” each to measure the factors of Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness. The Comrey Personality Scales consist of 40 personality subscales (FHIDs) that have been shown repeatedly to define eight major factors of personality. In this study, these 40 subscales, the CPS Response Bias Scale, the two NEO-PI single factor scales, the 18 NEO-PI facet scales, and sex were factor analyzed. All eight Comrey factors were clearly identified. NEO-PI scales Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness matched well with Comrey factors Emotional Stability, Extraversion, and Orderliness, respectively. NEO-PI Agreeableness was substantially related to two other Comrey factors, Trust and Empathy. NEO-PI Openness was identified as a separate ninth factor.

Which of the Big Five factors are in need of situational specification?

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boele De Raad ◽  
Esther Sullot ◽  
Dick P. H. Barelds
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Intellectual Autonomy ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Relevant Situation ◽  
Personality Questionnaires ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Situational Information

With the availability of a personality relevant situation taxonomy (Ten Berge & De Raad, 2002), a burning question ahead is whether systematic inclusion of situation references in personality questionnaires does improve their descriptive and predictive capacities. In this paper, the reliability question was addressed, and we investigated for which factors of the Big Five the interjudge‐agreement would increase upon adding situational information. In this study we excluded the fifth factor, Intellectual Autonomy. Two studies were performed, involving a first test in Study 1, and a replication with three tests through varying sets of items in Study 2. In Study 1, trait descriptive adjectives representing four factors were administered twice (N = 182), one time without and one time with situational information. In Study 2 (N = 152), we varied both the trait‐adjectives and the situational trait‐sentences from set to set. All four tests indicated that the interjudge‐agreement for Extraversion generally decreased upon adding situation information, for Agreeableness and Conscientiousness it did not essentially change, and the interjudge‐agreement for Emotional Stability substantially increased. Some explanations and implications are discussed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Taxonomy and structure of Croatian personality‐descriptive adjectives

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Mlačić ◽  
Fritz Ostendorf
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Peer Ratings ◽  
Factor Content ◽  
The Third ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Lexical Factors

This paper describes the development of a comprehensive taxonomy of Croatian personality‐descriptive terms, organized in three studies. In the first study three judges searched through a standard dictionary of the Croatian language for person‐descriptive terms. In the second study, personality‐descriptive adjectives were classified by seven judges into 13 different categories of descriptors. In the third study, the 483 adjectives that the majority of judges in the second study classified as dispositions were rated for self‐descriptions by 515 University of Zagreb students and for peer‐descriptions by 513 students' best acquaintances. Self‐ and peer ratings were factor analysed separately and the Croatian emic lexical factors from both data sets were interpreted to be similar to the Big‐Five factors: Agreeableness, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Intellect, and Emotional Stability. The inspection of factor content of the Croatian emic factors and their relation to imported Big‐Five measures revealed high correspondences for all five Croatian factors although the relation between the Croatian and the imported factors of Emotional Stability and Agreeableness was somewhat more complex. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The Influence of the “Big Five” Factors on the Demands–Abilities Fit in Soccer Academies

2009 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphaël Laurin
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory Revised ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Fit Indexes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Fit Index

The influence of the Big Five factors on the fit between demands and abilities in soccer was examined for school and boarding home domains for newcomer trainees of soccer academies. 81 male trainees from 4 academies participated in the survey ( M age = 16.3 yr., SD = 1.1). The fit between demands and abilities was measured three times during the academic year. In each domain, three repeated measures were aggregated into a single composite measure to define the fit index in the soccer, school, and boarding home domains. Results from the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised revealed that Neuroticism and Conscientiousness were, respectively, negatively and positively correlated with the school and boarding home fit index, Extraversion was negatively related to the boarding home fit index, and no personality factors were related to the soccer fit index. Stepwise regression analyses showed that Conscientiousness was the strongest predictor of the school and boarding home fit indexes. The individual differences approach to predict the success of newcomer trainees of soccer academies is discussed.

Big Five Personality Factors and Suicide Rates in the United States: A State-Level Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Voracek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Big Five ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Level Analysis ◽  
Cross National

Partly replicating findings from several cross-national studies (of Lester and of Voracek) on possible aggregate-level associations between personality and suicide prevalence, state-level analysis within the United States yielded significantly negative associations between the Big Five factor of Neuroticism and suicide rates. This effect was observed for historical as well as contemporary suicide rates of the total or the elderly population and was preserved with controls for the four other Big Five factors and measures of state wealth. Also conforming to cross-national findings, the Big Five factors of Agreeableness and Extraversion were negatively, albeit not reliably, associated with suicide rates.

Locating the Big Five Personality Factors in the Relate Relationship Evaluation Measures

2005 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 877-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Draper ◽  
Thomas B. Holman
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Evaluation Measures ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors

Factor analyses of data from 400 students who completed the adjective section of the Relate relationship evaluation and similar descriptors from the measure of the “big five” factors of personality by Digman and Inouye indicated that all of the “big five” measures, surgency, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness, can be assessed as part of the Relate assessment.

scholarly journals THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY FACTORS AND APPLICATION FIELDS / PENKI DIDIEJI ASMENYBĖS FAKTORIAI IR JŲ TAIKYMO KRYPTYS

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Agnė Matuliauskaitė ◽  
Lina Bartkienė ◽  
Jevgenija Rutė
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Student Knowledge ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Trait Theory ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Application Fields

The Big five factors are used in many research fields. The literature survey showed that the personality trait theory was used to study and explain relations with different variables. The article focuses on a brief description of methods that can help with identifying the Big five factors and considers the model for applying them in personnel selection. The paper looks at scientific researches assessing relations between the Big five factors and different variables such as job performance, academic performance, student knowledge management and evaluation.

Using Principal Component Scores to Enhance the Validity and Reliability of Big Five Personality Measures

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Cucina ◽  
Nicholas L. Vasilopoulos ◽  
Arwen H. DeCostanza
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Component Scores

Abstract. Varimax rotated principal component scores (VRPCS) have previously been offered as a possible solution to the non-orthogonality of scores for the Big Five factors. However, few researchers have examined the reliability and validity of VRPCS. To address this gap, we use a lab study and a field study to investigate whether using VRPCS increase orthogonality, reliability, and criterion-related validity. Compared to the traditional unit-weighting scoring method, the use of VRPCS enhanced the reliability and discriminant validity of the Big Five factors, although there was little improvement in criterion-related validity. Results are discussed in terms of the benefit of using VRPCS instead of traditional unit-weighted sum scores.

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