Temperament and Character Inventory-R (TCI-R) and Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ): convergence and divergence.
This study evaluated the correspondence between measures of two competing theories of personality, the five-factor model as measured by the Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ), and Cloninger's psychobiological theory measured by the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R). A sample of 900 Italian participants, balanced with respect to sex (393 men and 507 women), and representative of the adult population with respect to age (range 18 to 70 years; M = 39.6, SD = 15.7) completed the TCI-R and the Big Five Questionnaire. All TCI-R personality dimensions except Self-Transcendence were moderately correlated with one or more of the Big Five dimensions (from r = .40 to .61), and the two instruments showed areas of convergence. However, the differences outweighed the similarities, indicating that these current conceptualizations and measures of personality are somewhat inconsistent with each other.
Institute of Experimental Medicine, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Cristina
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Capanna
Francesca
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Struglia
Ilaria
I
Riccardi
Enrico
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Daneluzzo
Paolo
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Stratta
Alessandro
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Rossi
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002605:Character; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D013694:Temperament; D055815:Young Adult