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The Validity and Structure of Culture-Level Personality Scores: Data From Ratings of Young Adolescents
- Source :
- Journal of Personality. 78:815-838
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2010.
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Abstract
- We examined properties of culture-level personality traits in ratings of targets (N = 5,109) aged 12 to 17 in 24 cultures. Aggregate scores were generalizable across gender, age, and relationship groups and showed convergence with culture-level scores from previous studies of self-reports and observer ratings of adults, but they were unrelated to national character stereotypes. Trait profiles also showed cross-study agreement within most cultures, eight of which had not previously been studied. Multidimensional scaling showed that Western and non-Western cultures clustered along a dimension related to Extraversion. A culture-level factor analysis replicated earlier findings of a broad Extraversion factor, but generally resembled the factor structure found in individuals. Continued analysis of aggregate personality scores is warranted.
- Subjects :
- Extraversion and introversion
Social Psychology
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05 social sciences
050109 social psychology
Cross-cultural studies
050105 experimental psychology
Young adolescents
Developmental psychology
Trait
Personality
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Multidimensional scaling
Personality Assessment Inventory
Big Five personality traits
10. No inequality
Psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14676494 and 00223506
- Volume :
- 78
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Personality
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c555893bad066b00890a693725bf7a59