Authors
Robert R McCrae, Antonio Terracciano, + Personality Profiles of Cultures Project.
Publication date
2005
Journal
Journal of Personality and social Psychology
Volume
88
Issue
3
Pages
547-61
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Description
To test hypotheses about the universality of personality traits, college students in 50 cultures identified an adult or college-aged man or woman whom they knew well and rated the 11,985 targets using the 3rd-person version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Factor analyses within cultures showed that the normative American self-report structure was clearly replicated in most cultures and was recognizable in all. Sex differences replicated earlier self-report results, with the most pronounced differences in Western cultures. Cross-sectional age differences for 3 factors followed the pattern identified in self-reports, with moderate rates of change during college age and slower changes after age 40. With a few exceptions, these data support the hypothesis that features of personality traits are common to all human groups.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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RR McCrae, A Terracciano - Journal of personality and social psychology, 2005
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