Are indigenous personality dimensions culture specific? Philippine inventories and the five-factor model.
The authors addressed the culture specificity of indigenous personality constructs, the generalizability of the 5-factor model (FFM), and the incremental validity of indigenous measures in a collectivistic culture. Filipino college students (N = 508) completed 3 indigenous inventories and the Filipino version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R). On the basis of the factor and regression analyses, they concluded that (a) most Philippine dimensions are well encompassed by the FFM and thus may not be very culture specific: (b) a few indigenous constructs are less well accounted for by the FFM: these constructs are not unknown in Western cultures, but they may be particularly salient or composed somewhat differently in the Philippines; (c) the structure of the NEO-PI-R FFM replicates well in the Philippines: and (d) Philippine inventories add modest incremental validity beyond the FFM in predicting selected culture-relevant criteria.
Katigbak
Marcia S
MS
Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-2136, USA.
Church
A Timothy
AT
Guanzon-Lapeña
Ma Angeles
MA
Carlota
Annadaisy J
AJ
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PilarGregorioH
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory; D015203:Reproducibility of Results