1. Assessing personality across 13 countries using the California Adult Q-set
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Gwendolyn Gardiner, Esther Guillaume, Nick Stauner, Jaechang Bae, Gyuseong Han, Jungsoon Moon, Igor Bronin, Christina Ivanova, Joey T. Cheng, François De Kock, Sylvie Graf, Martina Hřebíčková, Peter Halama, Ryan Hong, Paweł Izdebski, Clara Kulich, Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi, Lars Penke, Piotr Szarota, Jessica Tracy, Yu Yang, and David Funder
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personality ,cross-cultural personality ,personality traits ,cross-cultural assessment ,Psychology ,BF1-990 - Abstract
The current project measures personality across cultures, for the first time using a forced-choice (or idiographic) assessment instrument - the California Adult Q-set (CAQ). Correlations among the average personality profiles across 13 countries (total N = 2,370) ranged from r = .69 to r = .98. The most similar averaged personality profiles were between USA/Canada; the least similar were South Korea/Russia/Poland and China/Russia. The Czech Republic had the most homogeneous personality descriptions and South Korea had the least. In further analyses, country differences in CAQ-derived Big Five scores were compared to results obtained from previous research using nomothetic Likert scales (i.e., the NEO; the BFI). The Big Five templates produced generally similar findings to previous research comparing the Big Five across countries using Likert-type methods.
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- 2019
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