Naslov
The geographic distribution of Big Five personality traits: Patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations

Autori
Schmitt, David ; Allik, Juri ; McCrae, Robert ; Hudek-Knežević, Jasna ; Kardum, Igor et al.

Izvornik
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (0022-0221) 38 (2007), 2; 173-212

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
personality traits; cross-cultural psychology; big five

Sažetak
The Big Five Inventory (BFI ; V. Benet-Martínez and O. P. John, 1998) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, the BFI was translated from English into 28 languages and administered to 17, 837 individuals from 56 nations. The resulting cross-cultural dataset was used to address three main questions. First, does the factor structure of the English BFI fully replicate across cultures? Results indicated that the five-dimensional structure of the BFI was robust across major regions of the world, including North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, South/Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Second, how valid are the BFI trait profiles of individual nations? Results showed that trait levels provided by the BFI were related in predictable ways to self-esteem, sociosexuality, and to national personality profiles previously reported in the literature. Third, how are personality traits distributed throughout the world? Findings suggested, for example, that people from the geographic regions of South America and East Asia were significantly different in openness from those inhabiting other world regions, with the former reporting more openness and the latter reporting less openness than people from other regions. Discussion focuses on limitations of the current dataset and on important directions for future research.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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