A six-factor structure of personality-descriptive adjectives: solutions from psycholexical studies in seven languages.
Standard psycholexical studies of personality structure have produced a similar 6-factor solution in 7 languages (Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish). The authors report the content of these personality dimensions and interpret them as follows: (a) a variant of Extraversion, defined by sociability and liveliness (though not by bravery and toughness); (b) a variant of Agreeableness, defined by gentleness, patience, and agreeableness (but also including anger and ill temper at its negative pole); (c) Conscientiousness (emphasizing organization and discipline rather than moral conscience); (d) Emotionality (containing anxiety, vulnerability, sentimentality, lack of bravery, and lack of toughness, but not anger or ill temper); (e) Honesty-Humility; (f) Intellect/Imagination/Unconventionality. A potential reorganization of the Big Five factor structure is discussed.
Ashton
Michael C
MC
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada. mashton@brocku.ca
Lee
Kibeom
K
Perugini
Marco
M
Szarota
Piotr
P
de Vries
Reinout E
RE
Di Blas
Lisa
L
Boies
Kathleen
K
De Raad
Boele
B
D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D010551:Personality; D014825:Vocabulary