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Taxonomy and structure of Lithuanian personality descriptors: self-rating study

The goal of the study was to develop taxonomy and structure of Lithuanian personality traits following the principles of the psycho-lexical approach. This was done in three steps. In the first study two judges selected person-descriptive terms from the Dictionary of Modern Lithuanian. In the second study all the selected descriptors were classified by six judges, based on the German classification system (Angleitner et al., 1990). Finally, in the third study the structure of 627 adjectives, morphemically unique type-nouns, and morphemically unique attribute-nouns was examined in self-ratings from 506 Lithuanian students. Principal Component Analysis followed by Varimax rotation was performed on ipsatized data. Structures with one to ten factors were investigated. The clear support was found for one-factor structure (Desirable vs. Undesirable traits), the two-factor model (Dynamism and Social Self-Regulation), and the five-factor structure (Agreeableness, Extraversion, Intellect, Contentiousness, and Neuroticism). Structures with one up to ten factors were correlated with Big Five and HEXACO models.

lexical approach, taxonomy, Lithuanian language, Big-Five model

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