TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality profiles of cultures
T2 - Aggregate personality traits
AU - 79 Members of the Personality Profiles of Cultures Project
AU - McCrae, Robert R.
AU - Terracciano, Antonio
AU - Leibovich, Nora B.
AU - Schmidt, V.
AU - Shakespeare-Finch, Jane
AU - Neubauer, Aljoscha
AU - De Fruyt, Filip
AU - Munyae, Margaret
AU - Flores-Mendoza, Carmen
AU - Dahourou, Donatien
AU - Ayearst, Lindsay E.
AU - Trobst, Krista K.
AU - Alcalay, Lidia
AU - Simonetti, Franco
AU - Bratko, Denis
AU - Marušić, Iris
AU - Høřbíčková, Martina
AU - Lykke Mortensen, Erik
AU - Henrik Jensen, Hans
AU - Allik, Jüri
AU - Realo, Anu
AU - Sineshaw, Tilahun
AU - Rolland, Jean Pierre
AU - Petot, Jean Michel
AU - Camart, Nathalie
AU - Angleitner, Alois
AU - Ostendorf, Fritz
AU - Yik, Michelle
AU - Jónsson, Friðrik H.
AU - Pramila, V. S.
AU - Halim, Magdalena S.
AU - Shahidi, Shahriar
AU - Barbaranelli, Claudio
AU - Shimonaka, Yoshiko
AU - Nakazato, Katsuharu
AU - Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed M.
AU - Alansari, Badr M.
AU - Khoury, Brigitte
AU - Mastor, Khairul A.
AU - Falzon, Ruth
AU - Ann Lauri, Mary
AU - Borg Cunen, Mary Ann
AU - Scicluna Calleja, Sandra
AU - Diaz-Loving, Rolando
AU - Arif Ghayur, M.
AU - Fischer, Ronald
AU - Oluyinka Ojedokun, A.
AU - Prentice, Garry
AU - McRorie, Margaret
AU - Ahn, Hyun nie
PY - 2005/9/1
Y1 - 2005/9/1
N2 - Personality profiles of cultures can be operationalized as the mean trait levels of culture members. College students from 51 cultures rated an individual from their country whom they knew well (N = 12,156). Aggregate scores on Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) scales generalized across age and sex groups, approximated the individual-level 5-factor model, and correlated with aggregate self-report personality scores and other culture-level variables. Results were not attributable to national differences in economic development or to acquiescence. Geographical differences in scale variances and mean levels were replicated, with Europeans and Americans generally scoring higher in Extraversion than Asians and Africans. Findings support the rough scalar equivalence of NEO-PI-R factors and facets across cultures and suggest that aggregate personality profiles provide insight into cultural differences.
AB - Personality profiles of cultures can be operationalized as the mean trait levels of culture members. College students from 51 cultures rated an individual from their country whom they knew well (N = 12,156). Aggregate scores on Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) scales generalized across age and sex groups, approximated the individual-level 5-factor model, and correlated with aggregate self-report personality scores and other culture-level variables. Results were not attributable to national differences in economic development or to acquiescence. Geographical differences in scale variances and mean levels were replicated, with Europeans and Americans generally scoring higher in Extraversion than Asians and Africans. Findings support the rough scalar equivalence of NEO-PI-R factors and facets across cultures and suggest that aggregate personality profiles provide insight into cultural differences.
KW - Cross-cultural
KW - Culture-level analyses
KW - Five-factor model
KW - Personality
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/27744605535
U2 - 10.1037/0022-3514.89.3.407
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.89.3.407
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:27744605535
SN - 0022-3514
VL - 89
SP - 407
EP - 425
JO - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
IS - 3
ER -
