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Psycho-lexical virtues in the Croatian language and their relation to the Big-Five and Moral Foundations

We employed the psycho-lexical approach to investigate the structure of virtues in the Croatian language and to explore the possibility of cultural universality of virtues. Furthermore, we used the lexically derived virtues and related them to measures of the Big-Five personality model, as well of Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory. A total of 324 virtue descriptors was extracted from the Croatian dictionary and rated for self- and peer-descriptions by a large sample of (N=611) University of Zagreb students and their best acquaintances. We extracted five factors of virtues and labeled them as ; Empathy, Achievement, Loyalty, Benevolence, and Depravity. Those factors were compared with Dutch and English virtues factors, as well as with the Big-Five personality dimensions and six Moral Foundations. Discussed are the cross-cultural similarities and specificities of virtues and the relative rootedness of virtues in personality dimensions and moral intuitions.

psycho-lexical approach; virtues; the Big-Five; Moral Foundations; cross-cultural aspects

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