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Towards a consensual model of personality traits

There is no ultimate personality trait structure waiting out there to be discovered. Trait structures vary in content-coverage and in their differential capacity. In order to approach a trait-structure that may claim some notion of universality, many cultural and linguistic borders have to be crossed. With a slowly growing numbers of trait-taxonomic studies, especially in non-western languages, structures such as the Big Five are not always easily identified. When emphasizing cross-cultural validity, there is a tendency towards a smaller number of two or three factors replicable across emic studies. The consensual approach starts from scratch by documenting trait lists from languages of the world. This will probably result in a multi-language list of several tens of thousands of trait descriptors, which list is in need of reduction. That process of reduction is possibly the main primary task a head, involving indeed an extensive dealing with especially untranslatable words and expressions.

Psycholexical approach, trait-taxonomies, cross-cultural validity, multi-language approach

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