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The geographic distribution of Big Five personality traits: Patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, ISSN: 0022-0221, Vol: 38, Issue: 2, Page: 173-212
2007
  • 821
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 1,324
    Captures
  • 10
    Mentions
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    Social Media
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  • Citations
    821
    • Citation Indexes
      779
      • CrossRef
        779
    • Policy Citations
      42
      • Policy Citation
        42
  • Captures
    1,324
  • Mentions
    10
    • News Mentions
      5
      • News
        5
    • References
      3
      • Wikipedia
        3
    • Blog Mentions
      2
      • Blog
        2

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Article Description

The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, the BFI was translated from English into 28 languages and administered to 17,837 individuals from 56 nations. The resulting cross-cultural data set was used to address three main questions: Does the factor structure of the English BFI fully replicate across cultures? How valid are the BFI trait profiles of individual nations? And how are personality traits distributed throughout the world? The five-dimensional structure was robust across major regions of the world. Trait levels were related in predictable ways to self-esteem, sociosexuality, and national personality profiles. People from the geographic regions of South America and East Asia were significantly different in openness from those inhabiting other world regions. The discussion focuses on limitations of the current data set and important directions for future research. © 2007 Sage Publications.

Bibliographic Details

David P. Schmitt; Jüri Allik; Franco Simonetti; Lidia Alcalay; Kaia Laidra; Lara Ault; Michael Cunningham; Ivars Austers; Kevin L. Bennett; Gabriel Bianchi; Ivan Luksik; Miroslav Popper; Marianna Supekova; Fredric Boholst; Leo Gerard A. Caral; Mary Ann Borg Cunen; Ruth Falzon; Maryanne Lauri; Johan Braeckman; Charlotte De Backer; Karolien Poels; Tom Speelman; Griet Vandermassen; Edwin G. Brainerd; Gabrielle Caron; Maria Martina Casullo; Ikuo Daibo; Eros De Souza; Rolando Diaz-Loving; Sofia Rivera-Aragon; Gláucia Diniz; Kevin Durkin; Vance Locke; Marcela Echegaray; Dora Herrera; Ekin Eremsoy; Harald A. Euler; Maryanne L. Fisher; Dolores Foley; Danica Hooper; Patricia Noller; Douglas P. Fry; Sirspa Fry; Kenneth N. Sandnabba; M. Arif Ghayur; Debra L. Golden; Karl Grammer; Liria Grimaldi; Fabio Sambataro; Tullio Scrimali; Jamin Halberstadt; Janine Hertel; Astrid Schütz; Heather Hoffmann; Zuzana Hradilekova; Jasna Hudek-Kene-evi; Igor Kardum; Jas Jaafar; Margarita Jankauskaite; Dalia Marcinkeviciene; Heidi Kabangu-Stahel; Brigitte Khoury; Hayrran Kwon; Anton Rupert Laireiter; Dustin Lakerveld; Ada Lampert; Marguerite Lavallée; Suk Jae Lee; Luk Chung Leung; Kenneth D. Locke; Ishmael Magaisa; André Mata; Rui Mata; João Moreira; Sérgio Moreira; João Verissimo; Barry McCarthy; Michael E. Mills; Miguel Moya; M. Munyae; Adrian Opre; Alexia Panayiotou; Nebojsa Petrovic; Maria Poulimenou; Volodymyr P'yatokh; Michel Raymond; Ulf Dietrich Reips; Susan E. Reneau; Wade C. Rowatt; Willibald Ruch; Velko S. Rus; Marilyn P. Safir; Sonia Salas; Marion K. Schulmeyer; Todd K. Shackelford; Phillip R. Shaver; Francis Sichona; F. S.K. Tungaraza; Tilahun Sineshaw; Spyros Spyrou; H. Canan Sümer; Nebi Sümer; Tomasz Szlendak; Robin Taylor; Bert Timmermans; Tim Vanhoomissen; Frank Van Overwalle; William Tooke; Ioannis Tsaousis; Ine Vanwesenbeeck; Paul L. Vasey; Martin Voracek; Wendy W.N. Wan; Ta Wei Wang; Peter Weiss; Andik Wijaya; Liesbeth Woertman; Gahyun Youn; Agata Zupanèiè; Robert R. McCrae; Shamsul Haque; Nhlanhla J. Mkhize; Verónica Benet-Martínez; Mithila B. Sharan

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