title: A six-factor structure of personality-descriptive adjectives: solutions from psycholexical studies in seven languages.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada. mashton@brocku.ca
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Ashton
authors.forename: Kibeom
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Perugini
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Szarota
authors.forename: Reinout E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: de Vries
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Di Blas
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Boies
authors.forename: Boele
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: De Raad
mesh_terms: D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D010551:Personality; D014825:Vocabulary