PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Meta-Analysis, Psychoticism, Job Performance
6 Nov 2017
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Analysis of terms in natural language and in questionnaires. The fundamental lexical hypothesis: the big five were designed to capture those personality traits that people consider the most important to personality. These trait terms communicate information about individual differences that are important to our own well-belling or that of our group of clan. Cross-cultural research: are they big five dimensions universal: when asking whether the big 5 are found universally across languages and cultures, methodological issues can make a big difference. Many researchers study the universality of personality traits by translating a personality questionnaire written in one language into others: read page 232-234. There is growing evidence that people in diverse cultures, using very different languages, view individual differences in personality traits in ways similar to the big five. The neo-pi-r and its hierarchal structure: facets: a particularly well-developed questionnaire is the neo-pi-r, costa and mccrae developed a questionnaire, the neo-pi-r, to measure the big 5 personality factors.
