Personality profiles of cultures: aggregate personality traits.

Validating Cross-Cultural Studies of Personality p. 1 of 19 What do Cross-National Comparisons of Personality Traits Tell Us? The Case of Conscientiousness

Much research contrasts self-reported personality traits across cultures. We submit that this enterprise is weakened by significant methodological problems, particularly the reference-group effect, undermining the validity of average country scores of personality traits. Behavioral and demographic predictors of conscientiousness were correlated with different cross-national measures of conscien...

The validity and structure of culture-level personality scores: data from ratings of young adolescents.

We examined properties of culture-level personality traits in ratings of targets (N=5,109) ages 12 to 17 in 24 cultures. Aggregate scores were generalizable across gender, age, and relationship groups and showed convergence with culture-level scores from previous studies of self-reports and observer ratings of adults, but they were unrelated to national character stereotypes. Trait profiles als...

Toward a Geography of Personality Traits: Patterns of Profiles across 36 Cultures

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In order to generalize the dimensional structure of personality—relatively independent groups of covarying traits—across languages and cultures, a large number of cultures must be studied. Until recently only a few worldwide personality datasets have been available. The first large–scale studies indicate that the pattern of covariation between personality traits is universal and is relatively e...

Five factor model personality traits relate to adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder but not to their distinct neurocognitive profiles.

Deficits in multiple neuropsychological domains and specific personality profiles have been observed in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this study we investigated whether personality traits are related to neurocognitive profiles in adults with ADHD. Neuropsychological performance and Five Factor Model (FFM) personality traits were measured in adults with ADHD (n = 133) and h...