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Personality Traits Characterized by Adjectives in a Famous Chinese Novel of the 18th Century
- Source :
- SAGE Open, Vol 5 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publishing, 2015.
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Abstract
- The personality-descriptive adjectives used in a famous Chinese novel of the 18th century, A Dream of Red Mansions , which is thought to broadly reflect Chinese culture, might help depict personality structure. Four hundred ninety-three personality-descriptive adjectives from the first 80 chapters of the novel were administered to 732 Chinese university students. After factor analyses, the one- to seven-factor solutions were extracted, and the five-factor one was relatively clearer. The five factors of personality titled Wicked, Intelligent, Amiable, Conscientious, and Frank, were intercorrelated. Men scored higher on Wicked and Conscientious but lower on Amiable compared with women. As a preliminary trial, our study demonstrates that personality-descriptive adjectives in a famous Chinese novel characterize the personality structure.
- Subjects :
- History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
AZ20-999
Social Sciences
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21582440
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- SAGE Open
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.54157809cc84460b8712b3b66aed640c
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015592019