PSY 3303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: 16Pf Questionnaire, Lexical Hypothesis, Trait Theory
14 Feb 2014
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Trait theory: the five-factor model: applications and evaluation of trait approaches to personality. Analysis of trait terms in natural language and in questionnaires. Instead of creating a scientific language, five factor theorists put faith in the natural language, that is, the regular, everyday language of people use to describe personality. Individual words (primarily adjectives) that describe persons: the question to be answered are these, how many different factors are needed to understand thte patterns of correlation in the data, what specifically are the factors, norman (1964) Big was meant to refer to the finding that each factor subsumes a large number of more specific traits; the factors are almost as broad and abstract in the personality hierarchy as. Eysenck"s superfactors: see table page 265 ocean. The big five were designed to capture those personality traits that people consider most important to personality.
