Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations.
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SUBMITTER: Laajaj R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6620089 | biostudies-other | 2019 Jul
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Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations.
Laajaj Rachid R Macours Karen K Pinzon Hernandez Daniel Alejandro DA Arias Omar O Gosling Samuel D SD Potter Jeff J Rubio-Codina Marta M Vakis Renos R
Science advances 20190710 7
Can personality traits be measured and interpreted reliably across the world? While the use of Big Five personality measures is increasingly common across social sciences, their validity outside of western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) populations is unclear. Adopting a comprehensive psychometric approach to analyze 29 face-to-face surveys from 94,751 respondents in 23 low- and middle-income countries, we show that commonly used personality questions generally fail to m ...[more]
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