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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
psychology
A Basic Bivariate Structure of Personality Attributes Evident Across Nine Languages
Journal of Personality, Volume 82, No. 1, Year 2014
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Here, two studies seek to characterize a parsimonious common-denominator personality structure with optimal cross-cultural replicability. Personality differences are observed in all human populations and cultures, but lexicons for personality attributes contain so many distinctions that parsimony is lacking. Models stipulating the most important attributes have been formulated by experts or by empirical studies drawing on experience in a very limited range of cultures. Factor analyses of personality lexicons of nine languages of diverse provenance (Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Turkish, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, Maasai, and Senoufo) were examined, and their common structure was compared to that of several prominent models in psychology. A parsimonious bivariate model showed evidence of substantial convergence and ubiquity across cultures. Analyses involving key markers of these dimensions in English indicate that they are broad dimensions involving the overlapping content of the interpersonal circumplex, models of communion and agency, and morality/warmth and competence. These "Big Two" dimensions-Social Self-Regulation and Dynamism-provide a common-denominator model involving the two most crucial axes of personality variation, ubiquitous across cultures. The Big Two might serve as an umbrella model serving to link diverse theoretical models and associated research literatures. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Authors & Co-Authors
Saucier, Gerard
United States, Eugene
University of Oregon
Thalmayer, Amber Gayle
United States, Eugene
University of Oregon
Payne, Doris L.
United States, Eugene
University of Oregon
Carlson, Robert
Mali
Société Internationale de Linguistique
Sanogo, Lamine
Mali
Société Internationale de Linguistique
Ole-Kotikash, Leonard
Kenya
Maa Language Consulting
Church, A. Timothy
United States, Pullman
Washington State University Pullman
Katigbak, Marcia S.
United States, Pullman
Washington State University Pullman
Somer, Oya
Turkey, Izmir
Gediz Üniversitesi
Szarota, Piotr
Poland, Warszawa
Polish Academy of Sciences
Szirmák, Zsofia
Germany, Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Zhou, Xinyue
China, Guangzhou
Sun Yat-sen University
Statistics
Citations: 220
Authors: 12
Affiliations: 8
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/jopy.12028
ISSN:
00223506
e-ISSN:
14676494