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A consensual model of personality traits as a vehicle for strengthening the cross-cultural lexical personality research

The lexical approach to personality has flourished during the last two decades, producing numerous publications and giving rise to the shared model in personality psychology, i.e. the Big-Five (Goldberg, 1990). The approach has also stimulated the growth of alternative structural personality models. The lexical approach to personality helped in bridging the cultural divide of studies in personality, by increasing the number of emic studies. However, the potential of the psycho-lexical approach has not been exploited to its fullest, especially in the cross-cultural sense. The trait taxonomies that have been performed thus far cover a rather restricted number of languages, mainly belonging to the Indo-European language family, and the cross-cultural comparisons of those studies are particularly scarce. Goldberg (2013) presented the next big challenge for lexical personality research, i.e. opening the EFA black box of indigenous personality taxonomies and looking for cross-cultural similarities and differences between them. In this presentation we’re offering a possible answer to this challenge by introduction of the consensual model of personality traits. We give a brief description of more than 30 indigenous lexical studies in an effort to produce a pool of globally relevant trait words which could then be used in a process of cross-cultural comparisons taking the various cultural aspects into account. We also give two possible routes for reaching a cross-cultural tenable personality model, and future cross-cultural studies, one being the comparison of factors across languages (De Raad et al., 2010), and the other being merging all the data in a “super matrix” (De Raad et al., 2014).

lexical approach to personality; Big-Five; alternative structural models; cross-cultural comparisons; consensual model

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