A Basic Bivariate Structure of Personality Attributes Evident Across Nine Languages

Journal of Personality

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Saucier, Gerard ^a   Thalmayer, Amber Gayle ^a   Payne, Doris L ^a   Carlson, Robert ^b   Sanogo, Lamine ^b   Ole Kotikash, Leonard ^c   Church, A Timothy ^d   Katigbak, Marcia S ^d   Somer, Oya ^e   Szarota, Piotr ^f   Szirmák, Zsofia ^g   Zhou, Xinyue ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b Société Internationale de Linguistique   (Mali)

^c Maa Language Consulting   (Kenya)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEDIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF CONTROL;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF-CONTROL;

EID: 84888086349     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12028     Document Type: Article

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