Personality‐relevant attribute‐nouns: a taxonomic study in the Italian language

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 537-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Di Blas
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Quantitative Indices ◽  
Component Solution ◽  
Personality Attribute ◽  
Relevant Attribute ◽  
Big Six ◽  
Language Content

The present study was based on psycholexical approach premises and explored the structure of a large set of personality attribute‐nouns in the Italian language. Content inspection (based on Big Five categories) and quantitative indices were used to interpret the attribute‐noun dimensions. Results showed (a) a stable three‐component solution which replicated the Big Three; (b) an unstable five‐factor solution which did not reproduce the Big Five; (c) an unstable six‐factor solution which represented deviations from the Big Five system, which have been found in most psycholexical studies conducted in the Italian language. The six lexical dimensions were interpreted as follows: Conscientiousness (replicating the III of the Big Five); Self‐Assurance (combining the Big Five I assertiveness and IV fearfulness subcategories); Sociability (defined by the Big Five I sociableness and I impulse expression subcategories); Placidity (combining the Big Five II peacefulness, II unassertiveness, and IV irritableness subcategories); Honesty and Humility (comprising the Big Five II modesty and II helpfulness subcategories plus integrity values); Cleverness and Sophistication (defined by the Big Five V subcategories). The conclusion was that personality word organisation in the Italian language reflects the psycholexical Big Three and Big Six, but not the Big Five. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Struktur- und Zusammenhangsanalysen von Emotionen und Persönlichkeitseigenschaften

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Becker
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Seelische Gesundheit ◽  
Big Six

Zusammenfassung: An einer Stichprobe von 115 Erwachsenen wurden fünf Hypothesen zur Struktur von Emotionen und zu den Beziehungen zwischen Emotionen und Persönlichkeitseigenschaften überprüft. Die umfangreiche Batterie von Messvariablen umfasste: 3 Verfahren zur Messung der Big Five; das Trierer Inventar zur Verhaltenskontrolle zur Messung des Big Six-Faktors “Hedonismus/Spontaneität”; 7 Skalen von Watson und Clark (1992) sowie 12 neu entwickelte Skalen zur differenzierten Erfassung von Emotionen (in Anlehnung an Davitz, 1969 ). Es wurde eine hierarchische Struktur der Emotionen mit den beiden orthogonalen Faktoren 2. Ordnung “negative Affektivität vs. innere Harmonie” und “Aktiviertheit” sowie den vier Faktoren 1. Ordnung “Missbefinden”, “freudige Aktiviertheit”, “Ängstlichkeit” und “Verärgerung” ermittelt. Das von Watson und Tellegen (1985) postulierte Circumplexmodell der Emotionen ließ sich nicht bestätigen. Zwischen den Big Six sowie den beiden Faktoren 2. Ordnung “Seelische Gesundheit” und “Verhaltenskontrolle” und den Emotionen zeigten sich zum Teil enge Zusammenhänge. Diese wurden vor dem Hintergrund zweier theoretischer Grundpositionen diskutiert.

The Personality Grand Prix: Comparative Validity of Big Five and Big Six Questionnaires

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber Gayle Thalmayer ◽  
Gerard Saucier
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Big Six

scholarly journals Strenghts of Character of Personal Growth: Structure and Relations with the Big Five in the Brazilian Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Porto Noronha ◽  
Cristian Zanon
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Growth Structure ◽  
Three Factor

Abstract The structure of character strengths and virtues in different cultural contexts across the globe has failed to recover the six-factor solution originally proposed by Peterson and Seligman. This study aims to assess the structure of the Character Strengths Scale, a test created to assess character strengths and virtues and the association between these strengths and personality factors in the Brazilian context. The sample was made up of 981 undergraduate students (60.5% female) aged between 17 and 26 years (M = 20.7, SD = 2.2), who responded the Character Strengths Scale and Personality Factors Battery. Exploratory factor analysis indicated that the three-factor solution was the most theoretically appropriate, identifying the following factors: Intellectual Strengths, Intrapersonal Strengths and Collectivism, and Transcendence. Regression analysis showed that three personality factors (conscientiousness, extraversion and neuroticism) are relevant predictors of these strengths, explaining a considerable amount of variance. The implications of the findings are presented, suggesting that high levels of neuroticism may impair the flourishing of strengths.

THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND THE BIG SIX VOCATIONAL INTERESTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayiana Mitevska ◽  
◽  
Paulina Tsvetkova
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Big Six ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

"A central theme in the present study is the assumption that the influence on the human behavior is mediated by different internal processes in the career choice. Emotional intelligence is defined as a variable which is a cause for the relationship between personality traits and the choice of a certain career. Three causal paths to the dependent variable were tracked – a path to the direct impact of the emotional intelligence on the career choice, a path to the influence of personality traits on the emotional intelligence as well as a path to the impact of personality traits on the career choice via the emotional intelligence. The aim of the study is to show the mediating role of emotional intelligence in the relationship between personality traits and career choice. A total of 100 Bulgarian secondary and university students (42 males and 58 females), aged 17-40 years, were included in the research. The following measures were used for the purpose of the study - Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire – Short Form (TEIQue-SF), The Big five questionnaire and the Big six method for career choices. The Bulgarian version of the emotional intelligence questionnaire was translated and adapted for Bulgarian sociocultural context by Antonina Kardasheva (Kardasheva, 2012). The Big five questionnaire and the Big six method for career choices were adapted for Bulgarian conditions by S. Karabelyova (Karabelyova, 2015). The results showed that there was a direct positive impact of the emotional intelligence on the relationship between the enterprising type and conscientiousness, the artistic type and neuroticism and a negative impact on the relationship between the conventional type and extraversion. The conclusions derived from the study could be used for further psychological research in the field, as well as for enhancing the knowledge of one’s personality."

One- Through Six-Component Solutions from Ratings on Familiar English Personality-Descriptive Adjectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Ashton ◽  
Kibeom Lee ◽  
Kathleen Boies
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Peer Ratings ◽  
Component Solution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Component ◽  
Stability Dimension

We report solutions for one through six components for self-ratings (N = 559) on 449 familiar English personality-descriptive adjectives (see Lee & Ashton, 2008 ). The first unrotated component mainly contrasted desirable with undesirable characteristics. The varimax-rotated two-component solution contained dimensions closely resembling the Social Self-Regulation and Dynamism constructs of Saucier et al. (2014) . The three-component solution contained dimensions closely resembling the Affiliation, Dynamism, and Order constructs of De Raad et al. (2014) . In the four-component solution, an Emotional Stability dimension emerged, absorbing some variance from dimensions of the three-component solution. The five-component solution added an Intellect/Imagination/Unconventionality (Openness) component, and thus resembled the classic Big Five structure (e.g., Goldberg, 1990 ). In the six-component solution, the variance of the Big Five Agreeableness and Emotional Stability components was reorganized, producing components corresponding to HEXACO Agreeableness and to rotated variants of HEXACO Emotionality and Honesty-Humility. Solutions based on peer ratings (N = 303) were generally similar to those based on self-ratings, but showed a much larger first unrotated component.

On the Curious History of the Big Six

2019 ◽  
Vol 227 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Saucier
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Moral Content ◽  
Selection Decisions ◽  
Partial Inclusion ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Big Six ◽  
Hexaco Model ◽  
Structure Research

Abstract. The Big Five became the foremost model of personality-trait structure in the last three decades, but was formed out of item/variable selections that partially or totally omitted dispositional content related to morality, ethics, integrity, and honesty. Such morality-relevant content has, for several reasons reviewed, extreme importance within the dimension of dispositional tendencies. Previous histories of the Big Five ignore details that account for this pattern of moral-content exclusion, exclusion that tended to impede identification of a key factor in a Big Six or HEXACO model. Here, a set of frequently referenced and highly morality-relevant adjective concepts are identified, based on ratings by 10 judges. The treatment of these concepts enables a tracing of the specific routes and rationales by which exclusion (and partial inclusion) operated in key lexical studies of the archaic period of lexical studies (up through 1993; in English and German), that reveals how variable-selection decisions by early investigators tended to impede identification of an important dimension of personality. Recommendations are offered for future personality-structure research.

Reliability and Validity of the Conceptions of Mathematics Questionnaire

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andile Mji
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Varimax Rotation ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Mathematics Majors ◽  
Component Solution ◽  
Two Component ◽  
Components Analysis

The article reports reliability and validity of the Conceptions of Mathematics Questionnaires, based on responses of 154 undergraduate mathematics majors from four universities in South Africa. The reliability estimated as internal consistency had a Cronbach alpha of .84. To establish the validity, Principal components analysis with varimax rotation yielded a two-component solution accounting for 44% of variance. The components were interpreted as Fragmented Conceptions and Cohesive Conceptions of mathematics, as in Australia Since the factor solution was comparable to that reported in Australia, this result is a sufficient basis for the use of the questionnaire in South Africa.

The psycholexical approach to the structure of interpersonal traits

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boele de Raad
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Interpersonal Circumplex ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Peer Ratings ◽  
Interpersonal Factors ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In this study the structure of interpersonal behaviour is investigated following the principles of the so‐called psycholexical approach. The interpersonal trait descriptors are selected from a comprehensive set of 1203 trait descriptive adjectives, constructed by Brokken (1978). Self‐ratings and peer ratings (N = 400) on the subset of 454 interpersonal trait adjectives were subjected to Principal Components analysis. The main results centre around a two‐factor solution, approximately reflecting the axis of the traditional interpersonal circumplex, Dominance and Nurturance. The relationship of the two interpersonal factors with the Big Five is discussed, as well as the relationship with the set of traits judged non‐interpersonal.

Taxonomy and structure of Hungarian personality traits

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsófia Szirmák ◽  
Boele De Raad
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Test Case ◽  
European Language ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Lexical Approach ◽  
Crucial Test ◽  
Selection Of

This study reports on the application of the principles of the lexical approach to a non‐Indo‐European language, namely Hungarian. This language is a Uralic island surrounded on all sides by Indo‐European languages. In addition, the Hungarians are, in terms of cultural features, Europeans. These conditions provide a great opportunity for a crucial test case of the lexical approach to personality. Study 1 reports on the different phases of the selection of the trait terms from the Hungarian lexicon, a categorization into kinds of personality‐relevant terms, a comparison of the category findings with those of other languages, and on indices of relevance of the personality terms. Of the total number of 8738 personality‐relevant terms, 3914 adjectives were used for Study 2. In that study, personality descriptiveness ratings were obtained from a group of judges (N = 5). On the basis of these ratings, a manageable set of 624 adjectives was selected for a rating task. Four hundred subjects provided self‐ratings on the 624 adjectives. On the basis of the means and standard deviations of the ratings, the set of 624 was further reduced to 561 adjectives. On ipsatized data, principal components analyses were performed. Both a four‐factor solution and a five‐factor solution, which were Varimax‐rotated, are presented. The correspondence of these factors to the traditional Big Five factors is discussed.

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