Only Three Factors of Personality Description Are Fully Replicable Across Languages: A Comparison of 14 Trait Taxonomies

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 160-173

  De Raad, Boele ^a   Barelds, Dick P H ^a   Levert, Eveline ^a   Ostendorf, Fritz ^b   Mlačić, Boris ^c   Blas, Lisa Di ^d   Hřebíčková, Martina ^e   Szirmák, Zsófia ^f   Szarota, Piotr ^g   Perugini, Marco ^h   Church, A Timothy ⁱ   Katigbak, Marcia S ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IVO PILAR   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

ⁱ WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural replicability; lexical approach to personality; trait taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 76449085541     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017184     Document Type: Article

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